Westwood Renewables launches designs for a solar farm located at a landfill between Oronoco and Rochester.
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Testimonials and “dancing lessons from God.”
Miromatrix, the University of Minnesota spinoff that holds promise of being able to build
Shaken by a Genmar bankruptcy that he didn’t see coming, he’s determined to rebuild his boat business. No, he doesn’t expect an industry turnaround, but Jacobs says he’ll be profitable regardless.
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Shaken by a Genmar bankruptcy that he didn’t see coming, he’s determined to rebuild his boat business. No, he doesn’t expect an industry turnaround, but Jacobs says he’ll be profitable regardless.
Breathe Laser Therapy claims to have a better way to help smokers kick the habit. CEO Rick Diamond intends a national rollout. All that stands in the way is a little credibility issue and a treatment method that “sounds like voodoo.”
Iconoculture founders Mary Meehan and Vickie Abrahamson have left their Minneapolis market research firm
Stu Utgaard was the Twin Cities’ biggest dealmaker in the ’80s and ’90s, a master of M&A. Then he made his own acquisition, Sportsman’s Warehouse, and built a single store into a $718 million retail chain. So how did Utgaard wind up buried under $31 million in personal debt?
What would lure Mark Jacobs (Irwin Jacobs’ son) from Manhattan to Winona to run an old-fashioned door-to-door business? The chance to apply entrepreneurial liniment to a tired, aching brand.
Brennan and Lacek's Loyal Subjects
Since meeting in the early 1980s and building Northwest Airlines’ WorldPerks frequent-flyer program, Mark Lacek and Peter Brennan have started five businesses, with a sixth on the way—nearly all devoted to helping businesses keep their customers coming back.
Mark Lacek and Peter Brennan have built their expertise in the travel business, but
The Cleantech network plans to do for green business what the Twin Cities already do for med tech.
The bottom line: by not making a pig of itself.
Angry partners. Broke investors. A flawed business plan. But the former R. Norman and 7 Sushi survived. Now David Koch is taking the restaurant in a new direction.
Doris Taylor’s groundbreaking U of M research on how to build hearts and other organs is now the core of a fledging start-up, Miromatrix. It could be a sign that technology transfer at the university is improving. And while the company doesn’t own a mailbox today, tomorrow, some believe, it could spawn a whole new med-tech industry.
News bits from around Minnesota.
Caribou Coffee redesigns its logo and brand.
GiveMN.org is helping nonprofits raise money online—and it’s breaking fundraising records.
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