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NOTEBOOK: Startup goPuff to bring convenience delivery service to Des Moines

A Philadelphia-based digital retail startup is bringing its industry-disrupting delivery concept to Des Moines. 

The company, goPuff, aims its delivery app squarely at millennials who would rather pick up their smartphone to order munchies rather …

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GREATER: Accelerate workforce diversity

Mike McCoy
CEO, NCMIC Group

THE IDEA: Des Moines should leverage its natural resources, insurance talent and its growing underlying insurance ecosystem to double down on on insurtech as a region so it continues to …

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Wish list for the 2019 Iowa Legislature

Hands shot up. Questions and comments zigged and zagged over topics such as affordable housing, a new terminal for the Des Moines airport, education funding, supporting rural communities, and other matters.

The Dec. 6 Business …

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NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: The stinky business of catching porch pirates

Holiday porch thieves beware — or at least refrain from stealing at an engineer’s house. Former NASA engineer Mark Rober was told by police they couldn’t do anything to track down the package stolen on …

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Jazz in July returns, to be held on Hoyt Sherman Place’s lawn

A trimmed-down version of Jazz in July will be held on Hoyt Sherman Place’s lawn in 2019 and 2020, thanks to two grants from the Principal Foundation.

The series of outdoor concerts had vanished after …

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NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: Starbucks to offer coffee delivery across U.S.

Christmas came early with this announcement from the Wall Street Journal. Starbucks is going to start delivering, joining the trend of providing ease of service to customers. WSJ says of that trend: “Delivery is becoming a …

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Suzanna de Baca hired as BPC president and group publisher

Today I’m excited to announce that Business Publications Corporation is naming Suzanna de Baca as the company’s new president and group publisher as a continuation and enhancement of our multiyear succession plan. Suzanna’s first day will be…
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Des Moines prepares for local option sales tax vote

The city of Des Moines is prepping to place the local option sales tax before its voters next year, with the City Council set to vote Monday on ballot language and a set of spending…
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Greater: 35th Anniversary Publication

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Cloud or walls?

Here’s what you might see in a data center built 10 years ago: a plain, concrete box of a building with an unremarkable front entrance. Especially for a small building, it’s not particularly noticeable or …

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