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By All Means

Making Business Work in Minnesota.

Entrepreneurs and leaders share the stories behind their beloved brands, and the ones you’ll want to know next. Discover how they got started, and gain insights to apply to your own ventures. Subscribe now and you’ll be first to know when a new episode launches.

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Justin Kaufenberg

Justin Kaufenberg

Sports Engine Co-Founder/Rally Ventures Managing Director

The co-founder of SportsEngine, turned managing director with Rally Ventures, shares lessons learned from building the leading youth sports software platform used by 35 million monthly subscribers.
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Chris Montana

Chris Montana

Du Nord Craft Spirits Founder/CEO

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
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Angie Tebbe

Angie Tebbe

Rae Wellness Co-founder/CEO

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
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Ping Yeh

Ping Yeh

Vyant Bio Chief Innovation Oficer

“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
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Fueled Collective Co-Founder Don Ball

Fueled Collective Co-Founder Don Ball

Fueled Collective Co-Founder

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 before.
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Jon Pearce

Jon Pearce

Zipnosis Founder

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
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Sam Harper + Michael Mader

Sam Harper + Michael Mader

Hippy Feet co-founders

“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
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Houston White

Houston White

Serial Entrepreneur + Community Builder

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 development. But he’s building
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Marion Parke

Marion Parke

Founder/CEO Marion Parke footwear

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
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Steele Smiley

Steele Smiley

Founder of Crisp & Green and Stalk & Spade

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
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Seena Hodges

Seena Hodges

The Woke Coach Founder

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
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Angie and Kyle Gallus

Angie and Kyle Gallus

Finley's Co-Founders

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
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Jeremy Friese

Jeremy Friese

Olive President of Payer Market (Verata Health Co-Founder)

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
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Maria Burns Ortiz

Maria Burns Ortiz

7 Generation Games Co-Founder/CEO

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 education. She’s
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Alex French

Alex French

Bizzy Coffee co-founder/CEO

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
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Charlie Youakim

Charlie Youakim

Sezzle Founder/CEO

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
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Yu Sunny Han

Yu Sunny Han

Fulcrum Founder/CEO

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
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Jules Porter

Jules Porter

Seraph 7 Studios Founder/President

“Video games are an amazing covert teaching mechanism,” says Jules Porter, founder of Seraph 7 Studios, a Minneapolis-based video game development studio on a mission to fight racism and build
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