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Retail Reimagined: 9 Trends for the Future of Physical Retail

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Before the pandemic hit, Minnesota brand TC Running had two brick-and-mortar stores and zero ecommerce presence. Whether it’s Zoom happy hours, TikTok dance competitions, or Kickstarter campaigns to save local institutions, we’re all craving real, human connection. The takeaway here is simple: lean into your neighborhood.

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Planning Your Fund Raising — “Measure Twice, Cut Once”

Both Sides of the Table

If you’re talking with a firm that mostly only invests in the San Francisco Bay Area and you’re in Minnesota, you’re probably wasting your time for a seed or A round unless you find somebody at that firm who is from Minneapolis and comes home 2–3x / year already. The third-pass is geography. The next pass is the “competitive pass”?

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Harley Goes Lean to Build Hogs. Opinion: Noonan: The Romney Campaign Needs a New CEO. Opinion: Noonan: The Romney Campaign Needs a New CEO. Subscriber Content Read Preview. Pension Crisis Looms Despite Cuts. Subscriber Content Read Preview. Firms Miss Out on Jobs Push. Subscriber Content Read Preview. Most Popular. Commented.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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Just as.NET is both a lock-in and very restricting, and Java violates both “lean cuisine class hierarchy” and “objects if necessary, but not necessarily objects”, the “we’ll just use XML” mantra deserves to die. I live in Minnesota. That would have given you a trifecta. Serdar IRMAK.

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