From startups to spin-offs, incubators to accelerators, Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and the surrounding area have embraced entrepreneurship. This special section highlights some of those established efforts — some brand new — and the personalities that make them fly.
The Gazette’s Business Notes is a compendium of the week’s promotions, new hires, certifications, added business lines and business events, among other items, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and the rest of the Corridor.
1 Million Cups — or 1MC — was developed on the idea of giving entrepreneurs and their communities a safe place to gather and connect, to share ideas and feedback, and to identify challenges and find opportunities. Its name is reflective of its mission: the notion that entrepreneurs discover solutions and engage with their communities over a million cups of coffee.
Sadie Sell and Nicholas Terbovic never owned a business before co-founding Mabel & Pearl Tea Co. a year ago, but training opportunities and community resources have their business purring.
New Bohemian Innovation Collaborative, Inc.’s Iowa Startup Accelerator has piloted a new program model aimed at taking already profitable businesses and teaching them the tools to grow to the next level.
When a student has a spark for a business idea, the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center Startup Incubator is the perfect place for them to connect with resources for exploring the next step.
States want proof they’ll get built due to concern that regular ratepayers could be stuck with the bill to build unnecessary power plants.
Brazil has lost about 131,000 square miles of mature rainforest since 2001 — an area roughly the size of Germany — and more than a third of that loss was in Para.
The move comes amid a surge in commercial interest in the county’s unincorporated areas.
A spokesperson confirmed that the layoffs announced Thursday account for about 20 percent of the company's management workforce, which isn't unionized.
Still no Iowa locations are listed as participating in open-ended strike to protest stalled labor negotiations with the company.
A small Iowa energy bar chain will be waking up more Eastern Iowans soon.
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