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Food and Drink Entrepreneur Kieran Folliard from 2022-02-16T11:00:44
The founder of 2 Gingers whiskey is at it again with a new Irish whiskey called Red Locks. Serial entrepreneur Kieran Folliard shares the process of launching new businesses, and why he’ll never re...
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Womaness Co-Founder/CEO Sally Mueller from 2022-02-02T11:00:35
Sally Mueller got inspired to become an entrepreneur as she entered menopause. A seasoned executive who launched dozens of successful lifestyle brands, product lines, and designer partnerships for ...
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Culture Quest Creator/Host Ian Grant from 2022-01-19T11:00:38
Emmy Award winning TV host Ian Grant is an entrepreneur driven by passion. He loves travel. He appreciates art. He is a gifted storyteller. And he’s found a way to turn those interests into his lif...
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SportsEngine Co-Founder Justin Kaufenberg from 2022-01-05T11:00:22
Around 60 million American children play an organized sport, according to the National Council of Youth Sports. If you’re the parent or coach of one of them, you likely rely on a smartphone app cal...
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DuNord Craft Spirits Founder/CEO Chris Montana from 2021-12-15T11:00:30
Du Nord Craft Spirits is known in the industry as the nation’s first Black-owned micro distillery. It’s a distinction founder Chris Montana would like to shed. “I’m sick of being the ‘Black’ distil...
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Rae Wellness Co-founder/CEO Angie Tebbe from 2021-12-01T11:00:34
Angie Tebbe is on a mission to make vitamins cool.
“I believe that if you’re going to start something from scratch, dream big,” says Tebbe, who left the Target merchant job she thought sh...
Vyant Bio Chief Innovation Officer Ping Yeh from 2021-10-27T10:00:34
“Is there a better way to find safer and more effective medicine?”
That’s the question Ping Yeh pondered as he fought his way back from the brink of death in 2012. Having survived a chemo...
Fueled Collective Co-Founder Don Ball from 2021-09-08T02:37:08
The pandemic called into question everything that made coworking desirable: shared work areas, in-person networking. But industry pioneer Don Ball has seen work culture trends cycle more than once ...
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Zipnosis Founder Jon Pearce from 2021-08-18T10:00:45
In March of 2020, as the U.S. shut down offices and clinics to guard against Covid-19, the telehealth platform Zipnosis saw an unbelievable spike in traffic, from around 1,800 visits a week to 65,0...
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Hippy Feet Co-Founders Sam Harper and Michael Mader from 2021-08-04T10:00:34
“When you bring someone to tears by describing what you do, that seems viable.”
Michael Mader and Sam Harper started their sock business, Hippy Feet, with a mission: to support young peop...
Entrepreneur + Community Builder Houston White from 2021-07-21T03:10:52
Serial entrepreneur Houston White’s business endeavors include barber shop, apparel collection that has been featured by Target and JCPenney, a coffee cafe and product brand, and housing developmen...
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Footwear Designer Marion Parke from 2021-07-07T13:59:52
Manolo Blahnik. Jimmy Choo. Christian Louboutin. Marion Parke. It takes moxie, clear vision, and a major investment to launch a luxury footwear brand with no experience in the field. But Marion Par...
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Crisp & Green Founder Steele Smiley from 2021-06-23T10:00:39
Before the boutique fitness craze that landed spinning studios and bootcamp gyms on every corner, there was Steele Fitness, a team of personal trainers who would show up at your home in a BMW and p...
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The Woke Coach Founder Seena Hodges from 2021-06-09T10:00:43
Seena Hodges is that person everyone calls when they want to learn about racism and equity building. When they want to get woke.
“I always love having the conversation, helping people unp...
Finley's Founders Angie and Kyle Gallus from 2021-05-27T10:00:43
Special education teacher Angie Gallus made dog treats in class with her students as a way to help them learn job skills. They would bake, package, and sell to friends and family. When Angie reunit...
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Verata Health Co-Founder Jeremy Friese from 2021-05-12T10:00:56
Dr. Jeremy Friese left a prestigious medical practice at Mayo Clinic to solve one of healthcare’s great headaches: the prior authorization process. Three years later, in December 2020, he sold his ...
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7 Generation Games Co-Founder/CEO Maria Burns Ortiz from 2021-04-28T10:00:41
Having reached her ultimate career goal before age 30—New York Times best-selling author; staff writer for ESPN—Maria Burns Ortiz turned her attention to a new challenge: promoting equitable educat...
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Bizzy Coffee Co-Founder/CEO Alex French from 2021-04-14T10:00:46
Bizzy Coffee isn’t like most other coffee brands. No coffee shops. No single serve bottles or cans or pods. Bizzy founders Alex French and Andrew Healy are singularly focused on a fast-growing segm...
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Sezzle Founder/CEO Charlie Youakim from 2021-03-31T10:00:50
Perhaps you’ve noticed when you hit the checkout button on your online purchases there’s often an option to buy now, pay later. It’s reverse layaway—you get the goods now, and you pay them off in a...
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Fulcrum Founder/CEO Yu Sunny Han from 2021-03-17T10:00:43
Growing up in and around computer labs, with a mother who was a trailblazer in computer sciences, Yu Sunny Han developed a knack for solving problems through technology. He built computer games as ...
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Seraph 7 Studios Founder/President Jules Porter from 2021-03-03T11:00:32
“Video games are an amazing covert teaching mechanism,” says Jules Porter, founder of Seraph 7 Studios, a Minneapolis-based videogame development studio on a mission to fight racism and build empat...
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Studio BV Founder/CEO Betsy Vohs from 2021-02-03T11:00:48
Never in modern history has office space been more disrupted than during the Covid-19 pandemic. And as CEOs contemplate how to bring workers back—whether they’ll bring workers back—architect and co...
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Neighborhood Development Center President Renay Dossman from 2021-01-20T11:00:49
Renay Dossman built her career with Fortune 500 companies, moving from Cargill to Target, where she found her passion in food innovation. But after years of traveling the world for food trends, dev...
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PURIS CEO Tyler Lorenzen from 2021-01-06T11:00:44
Behind every plant-based burger, oat milk latte, and protein shake is one essential ingredient: pea protein. Without it, there’s no Beyond Meat.
Minneapolis-based PURIS, fueled by a $100 ...
Bread & Butter Ventures Managing Partner Mary Grove from 2020-12-16T11:00:30
After 15 years at Google, Mary Grove made a sharp career turn that baffled many Silicon Valley insiders. She decided to become a venture capital investor—in Minnesota. “We got a lot of raised eyebr...
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Peace Coffee Owner/CEO Lee Wallace from 2020-11-25T11:00:42
In the 1990s, when Lee Wallace told business schools she was interested in studying the intersection of mission and money, they steered her into public policy. It was a time before B-corps and one-...
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Dogs of Instagram/ Lucy & Co Founders Ashley + Ahmed El Shourbagy from 2020-11-18T11:00:41
Have you ever come up with what you thought was a really clever social media handle, sure to be your key to fame and fortune, only to find it’s been taken?
Ahmed El Shourbagy is the envy ...
Tastefully Simple Founder + CEO Jill Blashack Strahan from 2020-11-11T11:00:38
“Sales will take you anywhere.”
That skill took Jill Blashack Strahan from a small farm town where she ran a café and didn’t dare to dream much bigger to founder and CEO of national meal...
Neka Creative Founder + CEO Rosemary Ugboajah from 2020-11-04T11:00:24
“Our vision is to be a role model for inclusion in the industry,” says Rosemary Ugboajah, founder and CEO of Neka Creative, a Minneapolis-based brand development agency that makes inclusion a cente...
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So Good So You Co-Founders Rita Katona + Eric Hall from 2020-10-28T10:00:42
It’s a good time to be in the business of selling immunity. Minneapolis-based wellness company So Good So You makes plant-based juice shots packed with probiotics that support the immune and digest...
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Abilitech Founder + CEO Angie Conley from 2020-07-15T10:00:46
Abilitech Medical is on the brink of launching the first-of-its-kind wearable assistive device that makes it possible for patients with upper-limb weakness or injury to use their arms for everyday ...
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Xena Therapies Founder and CEO Tammy Lee from 2020-07-02T10:30:01
Tammy Lee launched a line of wearable cool therapy medical devices in February, 2020, and one month later, she had to shut down her new company due to Covid-19. It wasn’t the start she dreamed of f...
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HabitAware Co-Founders Aneela and Sameer Kumar from 2020-05-20T10:00:43
Aneela Idnani Kumar started pulling out hair from her eyebrows and eyelashes when she was a girl. In her early 20s, she Googled her secret habit and discovered it had a name: trichotillomania.
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Check In: Anytime Fitness CEO Chuck Runyon from 2020-05-05T10:00:44
“We do not want to go back to being the way we were,” says Chuck Runyon, co-founder and CEO of Self Esteem Brands, the parent company to Anytime Fitness, Bar Method, Basecamp, and Waxing in the Cit...
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Check In: Love Your Melon's Zachary Quinn from 2020-04-27T10:01:08
Anticipating that face masks are going to be a necessary accessory for the foreseeable future, Love Your Melon is ramping up its collection and returning to the buy one, give one model that made th...
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Check In: Punch Pizza's John Puckett from 2020-04-21T10:00:43
In the course of three days in March, Punch Pizza went from record sales to shuttering its dozen Twin Cities restaurants and furloughing nearly 400 employees.
“It took us by surprise how ...
Proozy Founder + CEO Jeremy Segal from 2020-04-15T10:00:45
Proozy just may be the biggest overstock deals website you’re not shopping—yet.
But hundreds of thousands of people have discovered Proozy, which, like Nordstrom Rack or T.J. Maxx, offer...
Episode 41 — Jeff Gau, Marco CEO from 2020-04-08T10:00:53
Marco was a typewriter dealer when Jeff Gau landed a sales job with the St. Cloud, Minn. company in 1973, fresh out of college after serving in the U.S. Air Force. He steadily rose through the rank...
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Replay: Woodchuck USA Founder + Chairman Benjamin VandenWymelenberg from 2020-04-01T10:00:52
His company makes lifestyle products out of wood, but when the coronavirus crisis hit the U.S. in March, Woodchuck USA founder Benjamin VandenWymelenberg immediately started thinking about how he c...
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Replay: Caribou Coffee co-founder and Punch Pizza co-owner John Puckett from 2020-03-17T10:00:38
On Monday March 16, in the face of a national emergency, John Puckett joined Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz at a press conference announcing that restaurants and bars must close to stop the spread of coro...
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Episode 40 - Kent Pilakowski, Food Startup Investor and Advisor from 2020-03-04T11:00:40
Behind every successful founder are the advisors, investors, mentors, and marketers who are integral to getting it right. Kent Pilakowski is one of those behind-the-scenes experts who helped to bui...
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Episode 39 - Matchstick Ventures Partner Ryan Broshar from 2020-02-19T11:00:50
Growing up on an Iowa farm taught Ryan Broshar about taking risks and working hard. And it made him realize at an early age that he’d rather sell the corn than harvest it. His first startup, a uni...
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Episode 38 - Branch founder and CEO Atif Siddiqi from 2020-02-12T11:00:40
Atif Siddiqi knew he wanted to build a business. When considering problems to solve, he harkened back to his high school sales job at a t-shirt shop, where there was no automated system for employe...
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Episode 37 - Mercury Mosaics Founder and CEO Mercedes Austin from 2020-02-05T11:00:30
From maker to manufacturer: Mercedes Austin started making ceramic tiles in her apartment 18 years ago, and today, her company, Mercury Mosaics, occupies a 15,000 square foot factory in Minneapolis...
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Episode 36 - Jonny Pops Co-Founder and CEO Erik Brust from 2020-01-29T11:00:30
Erik Brust was still a teenager when he came up with the idea for an all-natural popsicle—a fruit smoothie on a stick. He and some friends started making them in their dorm at St. Olaf College and ...
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Episode 35 - Paul Douglas, meteorologist and entrepreneur from 2020-01-22T11:00:30
Throughout his career as a TV meteorologist, Paul Douglas has found ways to turn weather data into business. He's launched and sold more than one weather related startup and has several others up h...
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Episode 34 - Caribou Coffee President and CEO John Butcher from 2020-01-15T11:00:32
John Butcher held 15 jobs in 20 years with Target Corp. and it taught him to get comfortable with being uncomfortable. So when an executive recruiter called about a leadership role at Caribou Coffe...
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Episode 33 - Anytime Fitness Co-Founders Chuck Runyon and Dave Mortenson from 2020-01-08T11:00:29
Chuck Runyon and Dave Mortensen opened their first Anytime Fitness gym in 2002. Their concept was an alternative to big box gyms: A no-frills space with little supervision…just workout equipment th...
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Episode 32 - Izzy's Ice Cream co-founders Lara Hammel and Jeff Sommers from 2019-12-11T11:00:33
Nineteen years after mortgaging their home to open a neighborhood ice cream shop in St. Paul, Minnesota, the founders of Izzy’s are poised to take their ice cream national. “Our vision is to compet...
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Episode 31-Jewelry Designer Larissa Loden from 2019-12-04T11:00:33
Larissa Loden is a jewelry designer whose line is now sold in more than 800 stores nationwide including high profile names like Modcloth, WildFang and the Smithsonian Museum. And only four years ag...
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Episode 30 - Fitness Expert Chris Freytag from 2019-11-27T11:00:43
Fitness wasn’t a career path when Chris Freytag attended college, but her lifelong passion for movement and wellness led her to become an entrepreneur—even before she knew that's what she was doing...
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Episode 29 - Sleep Health Specialists Founder Sarah Moe from 2019-11-20T11:00:33
We talk endlessly about diet and exercise. But what about sleep? There’s no class in school, and in the workplace, there’s often a stigma around admitting fatigue. That’s where Sarah Moe saw her op...
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Episode 28 Blu Dot Co-Founders Maurice Blanks and John Christakos from 2019-11-13T11:00:33
At a time when modern design wasn’t readily accessible to the masses, college friends Maurice Blanks and John Christakos, with their friend Charlie Lazor, channeled a shared passion for art, archit...
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Episode 27 - Clinician Nexus Co-Founder and CEO Katrina Anderson from 2019-11-06T11:00:32
While working at HealthPartners as a front desk registrar, Katrina Anderson noticed that medical students were having trouble getting signed up for clinical rotations. She had the idea to create a ...
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Episode 26 - Haberman Agency Co-Founder and CEO Fred Haberman from 2019-10-30T10:00:32
Fred Haberman is co-founder and CEO of Haberman, a Minneapolis-based branding, advertising, and public relations agency that counts Volvo, Organic Valley and Boston Scientific among its clients. Bu...
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Bonus: Burt Cohen, Founder, MplsStPaul Magazine and Twin Cities Business from 2019-10-28T10:01:02
By All Means host Allison Kaplan sits down with one of her mentors, Burt Cohen, founding publisher of Mpls.St.Paul Magazine and Twin Cities Business, to talk about the magazine business, leadership...
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Episode 25 - Da Bomb Bath Founders Isabel and Caroline Bercaw from 2019-10-23T10:00:32
Sisters Isabel and Caroline Bercaw started making bath bombs for fun when they were just 10 and 11 years old. Entrepreneurial at heart and encouraged by their parents, Kim and Ben Bercaw, the girls...
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Episode 24 - Augeo Founder + CEO David Kristal from 2019-10-16T10:00:32
David Kristal had no intention of going into business with his father Henry, co-founder of the Ember’s restaurant chain. But with the heyday of the 24-hour diner coming to an end and the 80-restaur...
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Episode 23— Russell + Hazel Founder Chris Plantan from 2019-10-09T10:00:34
Chris Plantan traded building high rises for designing three-ring binders. Surprised that she couldn’t find stylish school supplies for her daughter to use in middle school, Plantan left a lucrativ...
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Episode 22 - Beauty Industry Consultant Sue Remes from 2019-10-02T10:00:34
You might not know the name Sue Remes, but you’ve no doubt come in contact with her work for Kiehl’s, Frederic Fekkai, Lancome, Murad, Bumble and Bumble, Kevin Murphy, and others. She started her c...
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Episode 21 - Clockwork Founder + CEO Nancy Lyons from 2019-09-25T10:00:35
Nancy Lyons is the founder and CEO of Clockwork, a Minneapolis-based experience design and technology agency that works with clients across industries. She’s a leader with a personal mission to “th...
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Episode 20 - Limb Lab Founder Brandon Sampson from 2019-09-18T10:00:45
Brandon Sampson almost lost his hand in a farming accident when he was 8 years old. Nine surgeries and months of physical therapy sparked his interest in orthopedic medicine and rehabilitation. He ...
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Episode 19 — I See Me! Founder + President Maia Haag from 2019-09-11T10:00:46
When Maia Haag told her boss at General Mills that she was leaving to start a personalized children’s book company, he told her to call him when she wanted her job back. “That just made me want to...
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Episode 18 - Woodchuck USA Founder + Chairman Benjamin VandenWymelenberg from 2019-09-04T10:00:35
Wiping out on Rollerblades and cracking his iPhone prompted Benjamin VandenWymelenberg to make his first phone case out of wood scraps. An architecture student who had grown up on a farm, he liked ...
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Episode 17 - J.W. Hulme CEO Claire Powell from 2019-08-28T10:00:46
Claire Powell is CEO of J.W. Hulme, the century-old leather goods brand based in St. Paul, Minnesota. She didn’t start it; she was brought in to resuscitate it. J.W. Hulme road the wave of the heri...
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Episode 16 — College Nannies, Sitters + Tutors Founder Joe Keeley from 2019-08-21T10:01:05
Joe Keeley’s story is the stuff of business school legends—particularly at the University of St. Thomas where he was a student when he got the summer babysitting gig that sparked the idea for Colle...
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Episode 15 — CaringBridge Founder Sona Mehring from 2019-08-14T10:00:35
About every five minutes, someone, somewhere in the world, creates a CaringBridge page. The Minneapolis-based social network makes it easy for people to communicate with loved ones during a health ...
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Episode 14 — Wit & Delight Founder Kate Arends from 2019-08-07T10:00:25
Kate Arends’ eye for design and instinct for connection helped her build an audience of more than 3.3 million for Wit & Delight, her blog turned social media platform. How to leverage that devoted ...
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Episode 13 - Upsie Founder and CEO Clarence Bethea from 2019-07-31T04:41:08
Clarence Bethea does not fit the typical venture capitalist’s profile of a promising founder. He grew up in a broken home, got into trouble with the law, dropped out of college. But when he started...
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Episode 12 - Flyfeet Running Founder and CEO Kristin Shane from 2019-07-24T10:00:24
Kristin Shane is the founder and CEO of Fly Feet Running, a group fitness workout with two studios in the Twin Cities and hopes of going national. Launched in Minneapolis in 2016, Fly Feet is thriv...
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Episode 11 - Great Clips Vice Chair of the Board Rhoda Olsen from 2019-07-17T10:00:24
Rhoda Olsen didn’t grow up thinking she’d one day run a $1.5 billion company. She didn’t have any female role models in business. But she found the way to lead with heart, and data, and in the proc...
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Episode 10 - Inspiration Champion + Brand Strategist Michael Fanuele from 2019-07-10T10:00:44
Michael Fanuele is a brand strategist who has worked at JWT, Havas, Fallon, and most recently served as chief creative officer at General Mills. There, he tried to inspire a big food company to be ...
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Episode 9 - Magnetic Poetry Founder Dave Kapell from 2019-07-03T10:00:19
Dave Kapell founded Magnetic Poetry, a first-of-its-kind novelty item that brought poetry into the kitchens and onto the refrigerators of millions of people around the world in the mid-‘90s. An acc...
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Season 2 Preview from 2019-07-01T19:16:06
New episodes of By All Means are on the way! We talk to entrepreneurs, CEOs, authors and visionaries. Leaders who make business work in Minnesota. Coming up this season: the founders of CaringBridg...
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Episode 8 - Young Joni and Pizzeria Lola Founder/Executive Chef Ann Kim from 2019-05-29T10:00:37
Ann Kim is the James Beard Award-winning owner and executive chef of Young Joni, Pizzeria Lola and Hello Pizza in Minneapolis. She and her husband and business partner Conrad Leifur created parent ...
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Episode 7 - Soona and Mighteor Founder/CEO Liz Giorgi from 2019-05-22T10:00:27
Liz Giorgi founded Mighteor, one of the first video production companies focused on creating content for the Internet. With clients including Facebook and the NFL, Mighteor has helped businesses ac...
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Episode 6 - Constellation Fund CEO Andrew Dayton from 2019-05-15T10:00:39
How do you define success when your family names are Dayton and Rockefeller? Andrew Dayton is the son of former Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton and philanthropist Alida Rockefeller Messinger, daught...
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Episode 5 - Finnegans Brew Co. Co-Founder Jacquie Berglund from 2019-05-08T10:00:19
Jacquie Berglund is co-founder and CEO of Finnegans Brew Co., the first beer company in the world to donate 100 percent of profits to charity. Finnegans turns beer into food by purchasing produce f...
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Episode 4 - Local Crate Chief Marketing Officer and Serial Entrepreneur Erin Newkirk from 2019-05-01T10:00:19
Erin Newkirk is an award-winning innovator, tech entrepreneur, brand builder, and champion of problem solvers. After working her way up the ranks to senior marketing manager at General Mills, she l...
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Episode 3 - Love Your Melon co-founder and President Zachary Quinn from 2019-04-24T10:00:14
His story has become legendary at the University of St. Thomas—and beyond. Zachary Quinn was a sophomore when he enrolled in an entrepreneurship class. There, he met Brian Keller, and together, the...
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Episode 2 - Evereve founders Megan and Mike Tamte from 2019-04-17T10:00:14
Megan Tamte was a new mom who wanted help putting together fashionable outfits. A bad experience at a northern California boutique sparked the idea for Evereve, which is now a national women's spec...
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Episode 1 - Caribou Coffee co-founder and Punch Pizza co-owner John Puckett from 2019-04-09T04:45
John Puckett and his wife Kim had a case of “the Mondays” that struck almost as soon as they landed corporate jobs after business school. “Life is too short to spend Sunday night dreading going in ...
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Teaser for By All Means from 2019-02-28T00:00
What does it take to build a business? Change an industry? Lead with purpose? Twin Cities Business Editor-in-Chief Allison Kaplan sits down with entrepreneurs and leaders who make business work in ...
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