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Tom Chapman, director of entrepreneurship and innovation for the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce, speaks about how Omaha has become a startup business boomtown at the Startup Stories Breakfast Wednesday, July 13, 2011, at the Pappajohn Business Building on the University of Iowa campus. Chapman was the keynote speaker for the breakfast and a later lunch about how startup businesses can grow with the right encouragement and networking. / Press-Citizen/Rob Daniel

The owners of startup businesses in the greater Iowa City and Cedar Rapids area can, at times, be too quiet for their own good -- much to the detriment of others who are hoping to start their own companies, said Tom Chapman of the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce.

“There are times you are too humble and afraid to tell your stories,” Chapman told a group of about 50 people at the Startup Stories Breakfast Wednesday at the Pappajohn Business Building on the University of Iowa campus.

 

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Rob Daniel