Written by Paul Lester, SBA For millions of small businesses across the United States, it’s getting close to the most wonderful time of the year: Small Business Saturday! Celebrated two days after Thanksgiving, Small Business Saturday is a way for consumers to usher in the busy holiday shopping season and make an...
Spend just an hour with Tricia Rivas and you quickly appreciate everything that is great about small business. Rivas’ enthusiasm for her employees, clients and community is contagious. The owner of Trixie’s Salon, with three locations in Des Moines and Altoona, knows small business success isn’t just about making money. It...
Small business success is as much about the growth of the owner as the business itself. Clint Dudley,owner of Shade Tree Auto in Grimes, learned this important lesson by investing in his own professional development. Dudley started Shade Tree Auto as a side business in his garage in 2001 while working...
An extensive business background and a love of craft beer led Clark Lewey and his team ofinnovators to build Toppling Goliath into the giant of Iowa’s beer industry. In just a decade Decorah-based Toppling Goliath has quickly expanded to 110 employees with distribution in 19 states and three continents. It is...
Applications for the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Venture Competition are now being accepted. The fourteenth annual statewide competition will be awarding $100,000 in cash prizes. The $100,000 in seed funding consists of a $50,000 contribution from John and Mary Pappajohn and a $50,000 match from the Iowa Economic Development Authority (IEDA). The...
On March 20, U.S. Small Business Administration Director, Linda McMahon announced the 2019 Small Business Persons of the Year winners from across the United States, Puerto Rico, and Guam Iowa's 2019 SBA Small business Persons of the Year are Brad and Angie Barber, owners of Cabin Coffee in Clear Lake,...
FedEx Corp. has launched its seventh annual Small Business Grant Contest. The contest offers a collective prize pool of $220,500 that will be awarded to 10 winning small businesses. Winners will also receive an additional dollar amount in credit to use toward FedEx Office print and business services to help...
Northeast Iowa Community College (NICC) is partnering with StartupDubuque to offer an Entrepreneur Certificate, starting this year. The new Entrepreneur Certificate at NICC will teach participants how to build a successful business plan, prepare financial statements, and marketing and selling on social media platforms. “It’s really a void that NICC had in our area. We had an entrepreneurial...