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Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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Ames company bankruptcy hurts ISU Research Park

The bankruptcy filing of Etrema Products has left the Iowa State University Research Park facing a loss of nearly half a million dollars in unpaid rent, reports The Des Moines Register. The research park, a nonprofit …

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Cow milker-maker Lely, entrepreneur T.J. Tollakson win honors at DMACC Small Business Awards

Lely, a Pella company that makes fully automated robotic cow milkers for the dairy industry, was named the Most Innovative Company during the fourth annual DMACC Small Business Awards held at DMACC’s Ankeny campus Tuesday…
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SBA’s Armstrong to speak at Gravitate

Jayne Armstrong, district director of the U.S. Small Business Administration, will outline the services of the U.S. Small Business Administration at a session for entrepreneurs at noon Thursday at Gravitate. This will be the first …

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Continental Western contracts with Fluttrbox for drone program

Commercial insurer Continental Western Group has piloted drone technology and analytics from Fluttrbox, Insurance Networking News reported. Montreal-based Fluttrbox, which graduated in 2015 from the Global Insurance Accelerator in Des Moines, provides a network of drone …

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Continental Western contracts with Fluttrbox for drone program

Commercial insurer Continental Western Group has piloted drone technology and analytics from Fluttrbox, Insurance Networking News reported. Montreal-based Fluttrbox, which graduated in 2015 from the Global Insurance Accelerator in Des Moines, provides a network of drone …

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Aureon names technology division president

Justyn Miller

West Des Moines-based business-support services provider Aureon announced that Justyn Miller has accepted the position of president of Aureon Technology. Miller has served on the Aureon Network Services board of directors for the …

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Aureon names technology division president

Justyn Miller

West Des Moines-based business-support services provider Aureon announced that Justyn Miller has accepted the position of president of Aureon Technology. Miller has served on the Aureon Network Services board of directors for the …

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Sept. 21: September Startup Stories

Host: Greater Des Moines Partnership About: Laird Hedlund Nossuli, CEO, and Bernard Nossuli, COO for iEmergent will share their tale of a vision conceived and brought to life by company founder and Laird’s late father…
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2016 Innovative Companies

  Bernard and Laird Nossuli iEmergent

Each year we set out to showcase companies that are working to solve inefficiencies in an innovative way.

  We continue our look again this year at five more…
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Sept. 21: Raising Capital Seminar

Host: Square One DSM and BrownWinick Law Firm About: Startup company founders in Central Iowa will have the opportunity to learn from other entrepreneurs and startup investors on how to successfully raise capital for their companies…