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Encourage young entrepreneurs, small business owners

By Dan Danner / Guest Editorial Today, American small businesses are not growing, hiring, borrowing or expanding as they should be. Their owners have almost...

Education + marketing = engagement

By Lynn Manternach / Guest Editorial I have a passion for both marketing and education. And those two passions are colliding beautifully in the new...

Are you prepared for the future?

By Tom Anderson / Guest Editorial In my past two Corridor Business Journal columns, I’ve addressed the need to understand that the past 30 years...

Spring floods test lessons from 2008

By Cindy Hadish CORRIDOR--Relentless rains pummeled Cedar Rapids as Mayor Ron Corbett discussed remaining recovery efforts, nearly five years after unprecedented flooding engulfed the city's...

Cirque du Soleil sneak peek

The newly-completed U.S. Cellular Center in downtown Cedar Rapids was abuzz June 5 with the nervous anticipation of performers and staff preparing for the...

HR professional starts hospitality recruiting business

By Pat Shaver WEST LIBERTY—As a recruiter, Jaime Parizek has flipped through many resumes. Her personal resume shows she took a less conventional way of getting...

Waterloo and Cedar Falls strive for Blue Zones Project designation

By Angela Holmes BLACK HAWK COUNTY -- While the leader of both the Waterloo and Cedar Falls Blue Zones projects admits it hasn’t been easy...

Electronic records offer convenience, ease of access

Jean Robillard / Guest Editorial Technology influences so many aspects of our modern world, continually transforming our daily lives and the way we communicate. One...

Aligning resources to strengthen Iowa’s Creative Corridor

By Dee Baird and Mark Nolte / Guest Editorial Last week, the Cedar Rapids Metro Economic Alliance and the Iowa City Area Development Group (ICAD)...

The role of business plans, goals in starting companies

By Jean Kruse / Guest Editorial A business plan is a formal statement of a set of business goals, the reasons they are believed attainable...

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