Dreamer: Eric Wieland

Business: Greenwood Motorsports

Location: West Des Moines, IA

The goal of Greenwood Motorsports is to redevelop the dilapidated Greenwood Roadway and create a motorsports country club for automotive enthusiasts. This motorsports facility would be a local, regional and national level attraction supporting local businesses and promoting Central Iowa. The original...

Dreamer: Sarah Vorm

Business: Sweet Treat without Wheat

Location: Des Moines, IA

Sweet Treat without Wheat now serves scrumptious, gluten free crepes, cheesecakes, cookies, cakes and donuts at the Downtown Farmers Market. Gluten allergies are on the rise and finding delicious & affordable food can be difficult. We are looking to purchase a food trolley so we can travel throughout...

Dreamer: Joe Doering

Business: The Outside Scoop

Location: Indianola, IA

The Outside Scoop crafts small batches of premium ice cream in Indianola, Iowa. We currently use pasteurized milk from a large dairy to whisk up our from-scratch ice cream mixes. However, we are hoping to begin sourcing our milk from a single, micro dairy farm in central Iowa by the summer of 2014....

Dreamer: Jade Dirks

Business: We The Dreamers

Location: Carroll, IA

I have a dream to provide a unique shopping experience like nothing Carroll has seen before! What is it we love and look for when shopping out of town, in the city, or on vacation? What is it about our favorite stores that we love so much, and how can we combine all of these missing things? I am an avid...

Dreamer: Larry Dietrich

Business: Slim D's BBQ Sauce & Team

Location: Ankeny, IA

Slim D's BBQ Sauce and Team is a growing adventure dedicated to the love of all things BBQ and family ! From creating our original sauce to competition BBQ events, to supporting our local communities and fundraisers with products and services, we are excited to provide a quality product created and loved...

Dreamer: Clinton French

Business: Wootbands

Location: Clive, IA

Wootbands is an innovative business that manufactures silicone wristbands with detachable customized buttons. We are submitting our application because we feel that improvements can be made to our current design to better serve our customers. With a regional grant, we would look to hire an engineer to...

Dreamer: Clemen Wilcox

Business: Everything-Spanish

Location: Urbandale, IA

Everything-Spanish provides custom fit marketing and business strategies to ensure the impact of the company’s efforts in the Hispanic Market, within the United States and abroad, is culturally accurate, linguistically correct, socially appropriate, and visually appealing for the target group. If...

Dreamer: Kerri Rush

Business: Fresh Wheatgrass & Sprout Farm

Location: Carlisle, IA

My name is Kerri Rush. My husband Tim, our daughters and I live in the country outside of Carlisle, Iowa. We started our small, sustainable, natural and non-certified organic family farm in February of 2006. We started growing and planting wheatgrass (in soil) in trays in our kitchen, moved it to the...

Dreamer: Cristie Sullivan

Business: CjSullivan Photography

Location: Van Meter, IA

My business is all about connecting the past with today and enabling a path for future generations to hold on to the memories and experiences of their ancestors. My business provides scanning, repair, and storage of photos and documents as well as providing current day photographic opportunities. We...

Dreamer: Tauna Bohlmann

Business: Party Poopers, LLC

Location: Audubon, IA

Party Poopers Portable Potties of Audubon Iowa dreams of repairing existing equipment, adding pink “rose scented” pots for special events, and have an advertising budget aimed at the counties to the north and west. We will add a northern route, providing more jobs for people in our community. We are...

Dreamer: James and Amy Hanken

Business: Madame Mary, LLC

Location: Templeton , IA

Madame Mary, LLC is a family owned and operated business with a dream of expanding the distribution of our premium Bloody Mary mix, increasing our brand's recognition throughout the state and region, while maintaining our small-town roots in order to enhance our local economy. Madame Mary uses high quality...

Dreamer: Todd Dunkel

Business: Iowa Distilling Company

Location: Cumming, IA

Iowa Distilling Company is a distilled spirits manufacturer in Cumming, Iowa. Iowa Distilling Co. has been a dream in the planning since 2008, and now in 2013, has become a fantastic reality. We purchased a 110 year old building in Cumming, Iowa, and all of the equipment we needed to get a good start...

Dreamer: Molly Rogalla

Business: MRogalla Photography

Location: Indianola, IA

Located Indianola, Iowa, MRogalla Photography offers images with a purpose. Molly captures unique, iconic images that come to life with emotion, each telling a story in a different way. Each preserves forever those moments of life fully lived. Molly is an award-winning photographer, a member of Professional...

Dreamer: Ben McDougal

Business: Jet Set Studio

Location: Des Moines, IA

The Iowa Pro Gaming Challenge ("TIPGC") is a large-scale, interactive video game event that plays a meaningful roll within the emerging world of eSports. We were forced to postpone the 4th annual TIPGC, because our downtown venue (AllPlay) went out of business and funding for the event has been limited. We've...

Dreamer: Nathan Gibson

Business: Bid On My Job, LLC

Location: Johnston, IA

BidOnMyJob.Com offers free online job postings for consumers needing services, and businesses wanting to fulfill those services. Derrick and I are applying to raise community awareness about our site to get valuable feedback and testing. We would use the money to make design and experience enhancements...

Dreamer: TrishaTrixie Hunter

Business: Trisha Trixie Designs

Location: Des Moines, IA

My business, Trisha Trixie Designs, creates vintage-inspired couture aprons and accessories. My mission as a designer is to develop aprons that work as a fashion accessory that serve a utilitarian purpose in your daily lives while also helping you feel fabulous! I want to show people that aprons...

Dreamer: Kerry Reeves

Business: Empress Threads

Location: Pleasant Hill, IA

Empress Threads is a small online boutique that provides fun, trendy, edgy, and creative jewelry and clothing. Some of our accessories are handmade by my Mom (Lisa) and myself. I was in the jewelry retail industry for over 20 years and am ready to turn my love of jewelry into my full time business....

Dreamer: Tricia Zeis

Business: Tricia Zeis Photography

Location: Des Moines, IA

It’s said that a picture is worth a thousand words. I would like my photos to express that and more! After losing my job last spring I immediately began thinking of ways I could continue to help support my family until a new job was found. I started posting messages on social media sites to find people...

Dreamer: Katherine Lehning

Business: Katherine Lehning

Location: Ankeny, IA

BBQ, BBQ, and more BBQ is our Dream. “Every great dream begins with a dreamer...” Harriet Tubman Well, at some point an awakening must take place to make a dream become reality. Our awakening is HERE & NOW, and when we WIN BIG we will use The Dream Big grant to fund the startup costs associated with...

Dreamer: Rachael Castaner

Business: CrossFit I-Town

Location: Indianola, IA

The most common question I get every day is “What is CrossFit?” CrossFit is a lifestyle, bordered around the concept of healthy living. In our gym location we practice a strength and conditioning program for elite police forces, military special operations teams, champion martial artists, and Olympic...

Dreamer: Latonya Bradley

Business: LB Hair Salon

Location: Des Moines, IA

LB Hair Is a salon that offers hair services to all hair textures. We specialize in ethnic hair and extensions using Aveda products. It will be a salon that makes you feel like you are in heaven as soon as you enter the doors. The love, joy, and peace that the staff and salon offers will make you feel...

Dreamer: Lora Fraracci

Business: EarthMadeClean

Location: Des Moines, IA

Environment, Community, Wellness EarthMadeClean services residential and commercial properties in the Greater Des Moines area. We use high quality Eco-friendly cleaners and equipment. Whether in our homes or in our streams we strive to leave a small carbon footprint. EarthMadeClean is locally owned...

Dreamer: John Jackovin

Business: Bawte

Location: Des Moines, IA

Bawte simplifies owning things in and around your house. With a simple scan of the things you buy you have fingertip access to instructions, get notified when products that you own get recalled, be informed before your warranty expires, instantly register with the manufacturer, keep receipts electronically,...

Dreamer: Alma Garza

Business: El Palacio Cultural Event Center

Location: Clive, IA

We are a Cultural Event Center that hosts Cultural events, private events, dance music and the arts. Some events are public and presented by El Palacio, while others are privately hosted. We are proud of the diversity that exists right here in our backyard and want to celebrate this with our community....

Dreamer: Jim Cooper

Business: Heli-Now

Location: Urbandale, IA

Heli-Now is an iPhone application and Windows program system that allows first responders to request the services of emergency helicopters with the push of a button. Imagine you are driving down the highway when a deer jumps in front of your car. You swerve instinctively to avoid the collision....

Dreamer: Albert Marasco

Business: Summit Products

Location: altoona, IA

Summit Products is asking for your vote of support. We are working to prove that innovation combined with rewards, autonomy, mastery and a purpose for our employees provides a formula for a success in our community. Unlike many companies which provide only a single product or service, Summit has a...

Dreamer: Ini Augustine

Business: SocialWise Media Group

Location: West Des Moines, IA

As more and more companies use social media as a recruiting tool, applicants that haven't don't have this professional skill will be excluded.SocialWise Media Group realized there was a demand for training on how to use social media as a professional. 92% of Fortune 100 companies are using social...

Dreamer: Shelia Hahn

Business: Dumpster Divas

Location: carroll, IA

We recycle and repurpose items for resale.People call us junkers, but you need to rethink that. Our pieces are used to furnish a starter home/apartment or to redecorate a home with a new statement piece.We try to stay within a working persons budget so that everyone can enjoy a new piece of furniture...

Dreamer: Lisa Freeman

Business: GRANDE Card

Location: West Des Moines, IA

The GRANDE Card is a product of a Des Moines start-up. Our product is a yearly membership card that provides consumers with the ability to receive and enjoy unlimited discounts and offers from participating local and national businesses. Local participating businesses do not pay to be a vendor on the...

Dreamer: Travis Lloyd Smith

Business: Changing Lives Entertainment, LLC

Location: Des Moines, IA

Iowa is notorious for bragging of "top notch" school systems. We have many accomplishments, but there are still too many individuals, schools, and communities who fall through the cracks. Those who have "Lower Expectations." My goal is to reach the forgotten, inspire the suppressed, and encourage each...

Dreamer: Jennifer Prymek

Business: Positively Wellness

Location: Johnston, IA

I am a health coach and personal trainer working to help people live a more positive, healthy lifestyle. I believe by eating a healthy diet and being active , they can reduce stress, reduce healthcare costs and be more productive. When a person feels good on the inside it projects a great confidence...

Dreamer: Mark Brown

Business: BLACK IOPS

Location: West Des Moines, IA

BLACK IOPS creates internal cloud IT data storage equipment which operates data volume repositories for government agencies, financial institutions, insurance industries, medical facilities which want to utilize cloud infrastructures but are not permitted to store their clients' data off-site. DarqMatter...