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Nine of 90 Ideas

The Business Record brought back one of our most popular and informative events ever – 90 Ideas in 90 Minutes – on Sept. 8 at the Hilton Garden Inn West Des Moines.

Nine leaders from …

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What’s next?: Capital Crossroads progress report targets poverty, crime, and attracting creatives

The latest regional assessment by Market Street Services paints Greater Des Moines as a market on the rise that competes well with bigger Midwestern cities but still is fighting poverty, talent problems and young professionals’ …

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Partnership aids small business, entrepreneurs

Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier: Small-business growth and entrepreneurs will be the focus of a regional partnership announced Wednesday in Waterloo. The University of Northern Iowa’s Business and Community Services will work with economic development groups, chambers of …

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Unemployment insurance contribution rate won’t change

Iowa Workforce Development announced that the employer contribution rate table for unemployment insurance premiums will remain the same in 2017. That contribution rate table — Table 6 — has been in effect for 10 of …

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Iowa Leading Indicators Index unchanged in July

The Iowa Leading Indicators Index compiled by the Iowa Department of Revenue decreased slightly to 105.1 in July 2016 from a revised 105.2 in June, but with rounding, the calculated percentage change was zero percent. The index …

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First entrepreneurs’ census profiles U.S. business

The U.S. Census Bureau’s first annual entrepreneur census shows that nearly 1 in 10 U.S. companies with employees were less than 2 years old in 2014.     According to the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs…
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First entrepreneurs’ census profiles U.S. business

The U.S. Census Bureau’s first annual entrepreneur census shows that nearly 1 in 10 U.S. companies with employees were less than 2 years old in 2014.     According to the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs…
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Murphy to join Partnership as lobbyist

Joe Murphy, who has been assistant vice president at Iowa State University, will join the Greater Des Moines Partnership as senior vice president of government relations and public policy on Sept. 26. Murphy has worked …

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Iowa tourism an $8 billion business, again

Iowa tourism accounted for $8 billion in spending in 2015, the second year in a row, according to the U.S. Travel Association. State tax receipts from travel were up 25 percent at $466.7 million last …

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Partnership launches ag accelerator with help from four firms

After months of informally listing an ag accelerator as a possible priority, the Greater Des Moines Partnership and Cultivation Corridor have drawn support from four firms to make the idea happen.


The ag startup accelerator,…