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The 5 Step Winning Website Formula

Duct Tape Marketing

Tim owns Hook Agency, a boutique digital agency out of Minneapolis. He owns the hook agency, a boutique digital agency out of Minneapolis and specializes in combining visual design and SEO for construction companies. Is it getting cold up in Minneapolis yet? And Brian Dean was named the number one content marketer.

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Turning the microphone over

Startup Lessons Learned

George Floyd: In Minneapolis, George Floyd was held to the ground by a police officer kneeling on his neck during an arrest. We say their names and hold a too-long list of others in our hearts. She responded by threatening to call the police."I'm He begged for the officer to stop torturing him.

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The Secret History of Minnesota Part 1: Engineering Research Associates

Steve Blank

Minneapolis/St. Just as Silicon Valley’s roots can be traced to innovation in World War II so can Minneapolis/St. Why Minneapolis/St. Serendipity came to Minneapolis-St. Parker was a ex Naval Academy graduate and a Minneapolis businessman who owned a glider manufacturing company and was well connected in Washington.

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It's time for lean philanthropy: a case study

Startup Lessons Learned

Minneapolis, Minnesota: Cars line up at a drive-thru food pantry. The individual then picks up the meals, gives the restaurant their name and last four digits of their phone number, and our work is done. Some food banks saw demand 3-4x normal, just as their volunteer base shrunk due to worries about COVID-19 infection.

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: ThriftyWrench.com

crowdSPRING Blog

Car repair services can sign up to have their name available on the site. Though ThriftyWrench is only available in western Wisconsin currently, they are hoping to expand into the Minneapolis-St. We’ve spend countless hours screening and surveying repair shops in the Minneapolis-St. Until ThriftyWrench.com came along.

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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

Both Sides of the Table

He tells the story of how he was out of cash, stressed out, nobody in LA or Silicon Valley would give him money, he had finally found an investor in Minneapolis but his venture bank was going to shut him down for breaking a “covenant&# in their agreement by not having enough cash in the bank.

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Embracing Your Entrepreneurial Superpower Being Unemployable

Duct Tape Marketing

07:20] Can you name a particular instance in your career where you felt like “This is going to work, this is like what I should be doing”? [08:58] Does your superpower have a name? [10:00] I'm curious, does your superpower have a name? [04:13] Why is the book called Unemployable? [07:20] So there's that. Absolutely.