Octopus grabs hold at Piccolo and elsewhere.
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Introducing five of Minnesota’s most accomplished business leaders ever.
Moving the gubernatorial primaries up into August makes them even less compelling.
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.”
Honoring six lifetimes of achievement.
With a new, proprietary product line, Burnsville’s Valley Natural Foods co-op is looking to a bigger market.
Surly makes a new extreme beer. What’s driving the bitter-beer trend?
Segetis produces bio-based plastics and chemicals. But it’s emphasizing value more than values.
Pixel Farm Digital hits “Refresh.”
At OrthoCor, a venture capitalist and an electrical engineer create “a next-generation heating pad” for troubled knees.
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.