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Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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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…
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Innovative Companies – Workhound: An app for the road

The problem: The U.S. trucking industry is facing a shortage of drivers and high turnover rates, driven by driver dissatisfaction. On an average annualized basis, trucking companies lose about 95 percent of their drivers to …

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Healthcare, ag startups win Pappajohn awards

Performance Livestock Analytics, a system that helps farmers track and manage activities and inventories, won the $25,000 first prize in this year’s John Pappajohn Iowa Entrepreneurial Venture Competition at Drake University. Punctil Health, which offers …

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Innovative Companies: iEmergent pivots focus from consulting to software

You could call iEmergent a startup company that’s been 16 years in the making.

Originally launched as a family-owned consulting business, the company pivoted in recent years into a fast-growing software product company that’s building …

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Innovative Companies: Fighting hunger

The problem: The founders worried about the amount of food that is wasted in both poor and affluent areas around the country, especially produce.

The innovation: Kinosol designed a solar-powered food dehydrator that also has …

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TAI takes Tech Town Hall to Quad Cities Sept. 1

It’s another double bill of technology from our guitar-playing tech friend Brian Waller and the crew at Technology Association of Iowa, this time in the Quad Cities. If you are on a road trip or want to plan …

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Video: Ode to bioplastics in Iowa features Willett, Durham, Crum

You may not know this, but someone declared this is Bioplastics Week. Several of the key entities in Iowa, as a way to note the achievements in this industry, developed a video, “Pushing the Boundaries of…
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Branstad notes STEM successes

Gov. Terry Branstad today released a 306-page report highlighting the successes of the Governor’s STEM Advisory Council’s programs, which focus on special programs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.


Some of the key points included:…