In her dozen years at General Mills, Lauren Pradhan rose through the ranks to senior marketing manager and then served as founding executive director of Minneapolis-based food and ag accelerator
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Last winter, when retail districts were scrambling to lure restaurant patrons during the depths of the pandemic, they turned to igloos. The heated, plastic domes that appeared on sidewalks from
Five years ago, convincing Life Time to open its tennis courts to a regional pickleball tournament was no easy task. “We begged Life Time in Lakeville to use the tennis
Editor's note: The owners of Arts & Rec Uptown in early August announced that the venue will officially open on Friday, Aug. 5. The high profile corner of Seven Points
A year ago, neighborhood gift retailer Patina was scrambling to build out an e-commerce site to survive the pandemic. This month, the Minneapolis-based boutique chain unveiled an expansion of its
Justin Kaufenberg has been through nearly every stage of the startup life cycle. In 2008, he and college classmate Carson Kipfer launched Sport Ngin, based in Minneapolis, as a small
If fasting is a cleanse of toxic foods, then hermiting is a cleanse of toxic culture. In the early days of e-commerce, being a hermit was something of a novelty—the
When I moved from a large corporation to a startup, it was a huge shock. While the business fundamentals remained surprisingly similar (except the decimal point was in a different
Bakeries, creative agencies, clothing lines, a counseling center, and software companies are among the 100 BIPOC-owned Twin Cities small businesses to each receive a $10,000 grant from Comcast. The Philadelphia-based
Two mentors are even better than one. Forwarding the trend of investors providing advice along with dollars, Minneapolis-based Groove Capital is forming a partnership with Minnesota Emerging Software Advisory (MESA)
One pandemic casualty no one seems to be mourning: extreme shopping hours on Thanksgiving weekend. The backlash to the holiday creep of Black Friday sales had been gaining momentum long
Best Buy continues its expansion into home categories beyond electronics with the acquisition of St. Louis Park-based Yardbird, a direct-to-consumer outdoor furniture brand started just five years ago by father
It isn’t really the office anymore. “Out of office” messages now amuse me. Many people have been out of the office for a year and a half. Now people on
As founder and CEO of Minneapolis-based recruiting and networking technology company Black Tech Talent, Mike Jackson networks for a living. He shares three best practices: Be in the room. Sometimes
Today is, at long last, the day the Dayton's Project opens its doors to the public for shopping at a street-level makers market called the Department at Dayton's. The market
From a mining town in Norway to the dairy cases of Lunds & Byerlys and Kowalski’s—there’s a new premium butter on the shelves at 60 Twin Cities grocery stores and
Not every company names its growth strategy. But General Mills Inc. is a global marketing machine, so the Golden Valley-based behemoth dubbed its spring 2021 blueprint “Accelerate.” The company is
Headquarters: Minneapolis Founded: 2017 Founders: Brendan Dillon, Dan Rogers, and Julian White. Joseph Stofega joined the trio as a partner in July 2020. Nokomis Energy is a local energy developer