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Building Siouxland's Startup Ecosystem with Anastasia Williams (Iowa's West Coast Initiative)
Host Kaylee welcomes Anastasia Williams, the entrepreneurial community navigator at Iowa's West Coast Initiative, for a candid look at building a rural startup ecosystem across Monona, Plymouth, and Woodbury counties. Anastasia describes her "concierge" role connecting founders to resources, and how she's catalyzing a grassroots, founder-led community that now meets weekly to share roadblocks, surface values, and co-design support. They spotlight impressive student pitches at Morningside—supercharged by AI—and unpack West Coast Iowa's unique challenges: dispersed geography, tight-knit…
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