Lift Bridge Brewing Company Cofounder and President, Dan Schwarz pouring a brew By C. Rick Jourdan and Sarah Kowal Lift Bridge Brewery—Stillwater’s Hometown Favorite Owners: Dan Schwarz, Brad Glynn, Jim Pierson, Trevor Cronk Four buddies were playing poker in a Stillwater residence, enjoying home-brewed beer made in their garage. It was pretty good, they all […]
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By C. Rick Jourdan and Sarah Kowal Talk to Brian Ingram and the first thing you notice is his enthusiasm and passion for food and the restaurant business. The second thing you notice is he’s making you hungry! Brian is the creator behind two of the Twin Cities’ hottest restaurants: the New Bohemia Wurst +
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Hillary Feder calls herself an “over the top, Type A” person. She’s focused, disciplined, knows what she wants and will go after it (her words, not mine). Her ambitious retail career includes being an assistant buyer for Filenes department stores and senior buyer for Dayton Hudson department stores. She now owns Hillary’s, a personalized gift
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Mark Dixon, donning double-breasted chef whites, demonstrates aerating my pour-over cup of coffee like it’s performance art. He raises the hot water pitcher well above his head, starts pouring hot water into the proprietary blend of coffee grounds and lowers it to a finish. He places the finished cup next to my non-aerated sample to show the
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You can tell that Lonnie McQuirter grew up around a family cleaning business as I ask him for the best place to take his picture in his store, 36Lyn Refuel Station. He says, “By the Peace Coffee station” and promptly starts spraying down the counter area with all-purpose cleanser to remove a few stray granules of
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Shop owner, Brian Smolinski, opened Lund’s Fly Shop upon the closing of Lund’s Hardware, a local darling that served the River Falls, Wisconsin (pop. 15,000) community from 1875-2011. The community is considered part of the Twin Cities metro area and is located in the fastest growing county in Wisconsin. River Falls is also home to the Kinnickinnic
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I’ve known owner, Scott Michelsen, at an acquaintance level for awhile. I know him as the ever-cheerful, outwardly vibrant, bright-eyed guy who never seems to have a bad day. His business, Today’s Bed, began with its Woodbury, MN in 2012. As I sat across from him at his “office” (display beds on his retail floor), he starts
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I have to admit, it wasn’t that easy finding bellies to babies on Penn Ave. in Richfield, MN. Amid construction and sharing a building with another business, I found it by the address. I had never met owner, Dan Canfield, before. I had seen a LinkedIn article about the value of quitting that he wrote and discovered that he calls
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Here we are. January of 2017. I’ve been reflecting on how I want the New Year to look for Right Now Enterprises. And in this reflection, I realized something- no, came to terms with. And this is it: While I consult my clients to make specific goals in the ways of budgets and goals, I
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The end of the year is nigh and I have been waxing sentimental. What do I want to leave behind in 2016? What do I need to say or do to have those things be complete? And I’ve been working on a client’s Christmas letter. You know, those letters where people have their kids each