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Always Be on the Lookout for Your Next Big Thing

Always Be on the Lookout for Your Next Big Thing

Steve Schussler is proof that the entrepreneur at age 35 can be seen already in the entrepreneur at 13. In his new book, It’s a Jungle In There, the founder of the Rainforest Café chain and Schussler Creative tells how his career creating themed restaurants took off—and in these excerpts, how a knack for seeing opportunity took him to extremes.
Winged Victory

Winged Victory

Sally Smith has taken Buffalo Wild Wings from fly-by-the-seat-of-the-pants start-up to 683 restaurants and a market value of $897 million. Now, how to keep the company soaring?
Words On The Street

Words On The Street

Element Six Media is one of those start-ups you can’t imagine starting up in the predigital age. It’s both virtual and global. Its nerve center and headquarters is a heavy
Don Shelby is Out Standing in His Field

Don Shelby is Out Standing in His Field

He’ll tell you why he doesn’t belong behind WCCO’s anchor desk anymore: He’s a “relic,” he has “too many edges,” he’s needed the rigors of the outdoors to recover from strokes. But local TV news isn’t leaving Shelby behind. He just might leave it in his dust.

Restoration Fever

For most of the 20th century, grand old houses in St. Paul’s historic Ramsey Hill district often were divided into apartments or put to other uses. Realtor Sarah Kinney says
Strengthening the Foundation

Strengthening the Foundation

Marquette Real Estate Group—successor to United Properties—reorganized in 2008 in order to expand nationally. Turns out that those moves also positioned it to take advantage of opportunities in one of the worst downturns ever in commercial real estate.
Pig Out

Pig Out

More menus start now with a plate of cured and processed meats—salamis, pâtés, pancetta; mostly pork—known as charcuterie. The trend is an outgrowth of the “head to tail” movement, a
Sarah Kinney Sells History

Sarah Kinney Sells History

When is a house not just a house? Get Sarah Kinney started on homes in St. Paul’s historic Ramsey Hill district, and pretty soon you’re dealing in poetry.
Do Something!

Do Something!

Former Navy SEAL Al Horner is on a mission to train people how to avoid or escape dangerous assaults. He takes a distinctive approach to self-defense—one that numerous Minnesota companies, including General Mills, have taken to heart.

Every House Tells a Story

1. Crawford Livingston House 339 Summit Architect Cass Gilbert made the dining room in this house a perfect oval, Sarah Kinney says, with curved pocket doors to slide back into
Crêpes du Jour

Crêpes du Jour

Fussy little French pancakes are everywhere now. But they’ve dropped their flaming Suzette persona to become—in Minneapolis and St. Paul, as in Montparnasse—street food to go. La Belle Crêpe at
How to Werc the System

How to Werc the System

In a soft market for independent films, fledgling indie producer Werc Werk Works is releasing three new movies and getting leverage with distributors.

Transom (1)

Doug Cameron left his post as chief science advisor at investment bank Piper Jaffray this summer to form Alberti Advisors, a firm helping clean-tech, renewable energy, and sustainable agriculture companies