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 University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business is recognizing Cedar Rapids-based Van Meter Inc., and its CEO, Lura McBride, with its Oscar C. Schmidt Iowa Business Leadership Award. McBride will receive the award Tuesday on behalf of Van Meter’s employee owners.
Stephanie Catlett focuses on marketing by day with the University of Iowa and writes and records music by night. The Iowa City singer-songwriter explores the “quiet spaces between separate lives.”
A year after the University of Iowa aired plans for a multi-stage expansion and modernization of its Tippie College of Business, the Henry B. Tippie family has committed another $20 million toward a campaign to make the project happen.
EntreFEST, a conference for Iowa entrepreneurs, hosted its first-ever pitch competition Friday in Cedar Rapids, with $15,000 in cash prizes. The first-place winner, from Cedar Rapids, is a regenerative farm that’s growing produce of cultural importance.
After coming up with a plan for his nonprofit in a Tippie entrepreneurship class, Micah Hyde has turned to the same professor’s class to organize his charity golf outing in Iowa City.
Melissa Bates, 2024 Iowa Innovator of the Year, is set to launch a new respiratory device to ‘revolutionize’ lung health monitoring.
From startups to spin-offs, incubators to accelerators, Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and the surrounding area have embraced entrepreneurship. This inaugural special section highlights some of those established efforts — some brand new — and the personalities that make them fly.
While COVID-19 for the most part has hurt enrollment across traditional college and university campuses, it’s had the opposite effect on some less-traditional higher ed programs — like the University of Iowa’s new online Master of Business Administration degree.
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