Letter From the Editor

Dan Moshe, the founder of Tech Guru, and Jim Olson, president of Fourcubed, plan to get a beer one day soon and discuss a common circumstance at fast-growing companies—how to transition from the exciting yet unsustainable founder-driven years to professional...

You've heard the one about the lack of women-led companies with a scalable business model attractive to investors beyond family and friends. A group of five angel investors, founders of the latest version of the Sofia Fund in the Twin Cities, are poking holes in that...

Loren O'Brien is a 2010 winner of the Upsize Growth Challenge—our annual contest to help business owners reach an ambitious growth goal, with nominations open now—and he’s the kind of entrepreneur for whom the contest, our how-to workshops and the magazine itself is...

I grew up on a farm, which comes with endless hours out in the field, driving the combines and trucks and tractors with no bathroom breaks because there are no bathrooms. My sister and I grew skilled at standing up to relieve ourselves, albeit with an awkward squat...

Goff, one of the most gracious entrepreneurs in the Twin Cities, has for years hosted a monthly luncheon to gather women together to hear her message: They’ve got to get their financial house in order, because many of them will one day be single if they aren’t...

We’re participating in a conference call to discuss progress on the two winners’ goals since meeting in June. Erickson has just explained she’s taken Willer’s and the other experts’ advice to create a strategic plan for her business, and purchased a “strategic...

Most days, Adrian Coulter is at his St. Paul store, XL Feet, by 6:30 a.m., wearing a headset, hanging with his dog, and taking calls from people all over the world who need shoes in really big sizes. He might talk to a sheriff’s office for a rush job on a pair of work...

The practitioner was Betsy Buckley, a local PR maven who’s been connecting people in the Twin Cities for decades. She’s like a walking, talking LinkedIn page, but without those lame, off-the-mark “recommendations.” (Does Beth know copy editing? Does Beth know...

Gatekeeper Systems, Floorworx and P.M. Bedroom Gallery were selected from dozens of nominations to discuss their growth goals with a team of experts, gain advice to make those dreams a reality, and tell our readers all about it in the pages of Upsize and at a public...

Her South Dakota town had only a few hundred people in it, so each and every one had to come together and contribute if anything was going to happen. She says she uses the same idea—get every stakeholder to the table and create a winning situation for all—when she...