Cover Story
Eyes on the prizes
At an awards dinner in early November, StemoniX was named by Singularity University’s Exponential Medicine one of five companies to claim a 2019 MEDy Award. The MEDy awards recognize companies that are creating new solutions to redefine health and medicine and are on track to help millions, if not billions of lives. StemoniX was named […] Continue reading →
Letter From the Editor
Editor’s Note
Clayton Gardner was living the glittery life as a business partner with David Koch at Seven steakhouse and Escape nightclub in Minneapolis, 30,000-square-foot see-and-be-seen hot spots that were once as riddled with controversy as patronized by celebrities. “When it starts getting bad and you’re not seeing eye to eye, it was time to move on,” […] Continue reading →
Back Page
Back Page
The Otto Bremer Trust, which owns 86 percent of St. Paul-based Bremer Bank, has invested more than $700 million in people, places and opportunities in the Upper Midwest. The Trust’s investments have gone to organizations supporting minorities, women, youth and more. The organization has found it successful enough to recently form a financial services subsidiary […] Continue reading →
Business Builders
Management
In today’s corporate travel environment, travelers are making decisions based upon convenience, relevance, points and status, and several other factors that go beyond company cost savings. With the total travel industry spend reaching more than $1 trillion dollars there are a lot of marketing tactics to get travelers to purchase from third-party/leisure-based websites. This spills […] Continue reading →
Advertising
So, you launched an advertising campaign. And guess what … it’s not working. Two of the most common questions new clients ask us are why their past advertising efforts haven’t worked and how can those results be turned around. Crafting an effective marketing strategy is a layered process. Many variables can influence the success of […] Continue reading →
Law
Employers want to ensure that their customer goodwill and valuable confidential information don’t walk out the door when an employee resigns. One method of protecting — or attempting to protect — a business’s interests is use of non-compete agreements or other similar types of agreements, which are collectively known in the legal field as restrictive […] Continue reading →
Catching up
Catching Up
In 2000, Maia and Allan Haag started I See Me! Inc., two years after receiving a personalized book as a gift for their first newborn son. They loved the personalization, but thought the illustrations and customization could have been better. By 2011, when I See Me! participated in the Upsize Growth Challenge, it was about […] Continue reading →
