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Behind the scenes at Rowan Manufacturing

Entrepreneurship Update: Visit behind the scenes of industry in Tama County and get a taste for starting up a rural business, June 21

by on May 25, 2011 in Business Formation, Expansion, Financing, Marketing, Partnerships, Real Estate, Workforce

A sincere thank you to Rowan Equipment & Fabrication in Dysart for hosting the last Tama County Entrepreneurship Trust behind the scenes industry visit. With our special “backstage manufacturing passes” we had a chance to see for ourselves some of the evolution in industrial technology that is allowing our manufacturing plants in rural Iowa to [...]

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Utility Update: Market growth opportunities in Telecommunications

by on July 12, 2010 in Business Formation, Expansion, Partnerships, Real Estate

Locating in a rural area has many low-cost and safety benefits. But as the world evolves, our expectations on baseline utilities increases because of our economic market links. In Tama County growing rural business leaders with national clients communicate challenges that low quality technology hindering their ability to address updates and changes in real-time. Hazard mitigation [...]

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Education Update: Leaders Clear Brush for Green Technology

by on June 15, 2010 in Business Formation, Financing, Marketing, Partnerships, Workforce

Central Iowa’s innovation based patent filings are 3x higher than national avg (1) Iowa is #1 in ethanol production nationally & the birthplace of the technology (2) Iowa is #2 in biodiesel production nationally (3) Iowa is #1 energy producing state in wind power as a % of output at 15% (4) Iowa is #2 [...]

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