The CEO of Xena Therapies discusses her change in strategy to avoid letting Covid-19 derail her rollout of cool therapy medical devices.
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There’s no time like a pandemic to launch a new venture fund. Two experienced Minnesota-based investors, Brett Brohl and Mary Grove, are teaming up to launch Bread & Butter Ventures,
I’ve just returned from the Longfellow neighborhood in south Minneapolis. It’s Sunday, less than a week after the death of our fellow Minnesotan George Floyd at the hands of four
Houston White has known setbacks. In 2008, he was a self-employed contractor building million-dollar homes in Golden Valley when the foreclosure crisis hit, taking down his business along with it.
Clarence Bethea is unusual among Minnesota entrepreneurs: a black founder who has raised more than $8.5 million for his startup, the warranty app Upsie. In the wake of George Floyd’s death—another
After five years of baking cookies as big as your head, T.Rex Cookie was at a crossroads. With a storefront and kitchen in Eagan and a wholesale business supplying Orchestra
This magazine came together in the midst of a pandemic. I’ve typed that intense word—pandemic—probably a thousand times already, and still it feels like I’m describing a scene out of some dystopian
After five years of baking cookies as big as your head, T.Rex Cookie was at a crossroads. With a storefront and kitchen in Eagan and a wholesale business supplying Orchestra
Not even a pandemic could get in the way of HOM Furniture completing its colossal new flagship on I-494 in Bloomington. The superstore, featuring all of HOM’s brands including Gabberts,
Minnesota malls were caught somewhat off guard by Gov. Tim Walz’s announcement that they will be allowed to reopen on Monday, May 18. “Turning the dial,” as the governor likes to say,
For decades, Mall of America has set the gold standard for experiential retail, leaning heavily on entertainment, events, and tourist-attraction restaurants as the draws to get people shopping. But in
Curbside service opened Monday for many Minnesota retailers that had been forced by state order to close in March due to Covid-19, but store owners aren’t celebrating. In an informal
We could probably all use a vacation right now. But what might getaways actually look like for the foreseeable future? Cast a gaze on the shores of Lake Superior where Wild
At a time when many companies are reevaluating their value proposition, Nina Hale is quite clear on what it stands for, and today, the Minneapolis marketing agency is rebranding to
A group of Caribou Coffee frontline workers, with support from advocacy group Restaurant Opportunities Center of Minnesota, are planning a Monday morning rally to protest what they say are unsafe
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
The Editor's Note appeared in the April issue of Twin Cities Business. The Women in Leadership event has been postponed until October 12. The same featured panelists are scheduled to participate. As
This article appeared in the April issue of Twin Cities Business magazine. If you didn’t catch the name above the door, you might think Creative Kidstuff was resurrected from among the mountain of retailers
Many a fishing enthusiast will say that solitude is one of the perks of being out on the water. With so few ways to safely get out of the house
In an announcement that seemed inevitable now that its nearly 1,000 stores have been closed to shoppers for nearly a month, Best Buy on Wednesday said that it will furlough