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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Jacquie Berglund

Jacquie Berglund

Co-Founder and CEO of Finnegans Brew Co.

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 from local farmers and donating it to food banks in every state where the beer is sold.
Erin Newkirk

Erin Newkirk

Chief Marketing Officer of Local Crate

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 left to start Red Stamp, a modern correspondence company, which she built into a mobile app that made it possible to send personalized cards and invitations on your phone with a couple of clicks.
Megan and Mike Tamte

Megan and Mike Tamte

Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Evereve

Megan Tamte was a new mom who wanted help putting together outfits. A bad experience at a northern California boutique sparked the idea for Evereve, now a national women's specialty retail chain with 85 stores, a fast-growing e-commerce business and a subscription service called Trendsend.
John Puckett

John Puckett

Caribou Coffee co-founder, Punch Pizza co-owner

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 to work on Monday,” That conviction led to the creation of Caribou Coffee.
Liz Giorgi

Liz Giorgi

Founder/CEO of Soona and Mighteor

Liz Giorgi founded Mighteor, one of the first video production companies focused on creating content for the Internet. Now, the Emmy award winner is launching a second business called Soona—a same-day photo and video production studio. “We can completely change the game for how content is made; make it accessible to any brand at any time.”
Zachary Quinn

Zachary Quinn

Co-Founder & President of Love Your Melon

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, they turned an assignment to create a business into Love Your Melon, the $40 million hat company that donates half its profits to fighting pediatric cancer.
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