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Ward and Maggie Johnson

All-Natural Pet Food Creators

Meet animal lovers and entrepreneurs Ward and Maggie Johnson, owners of Sojourner Farms, and creators of Sojos brand of all-natural, raw pet food.

April 2008

Sarah Kusa

Sarah Kusa

Sarah Kusa kissed corporate America goodbye to nurture her creative side. Today she creates screen-printed place mats, dishcloths, and table runners.

March 2008

Bianca Morales-Eagan and Debra Pesek

Bianca Morales-Eagan and Debra Pesek

Meet Bianca Morales-Eagan and Debra Pesek, the mother-daughter duo behind Tinker Bella, an interior furnishings and design company specializing in unique fittings and embellishments for the home, as well as a decorative painting service.

February 2008

Julie Allinson

Julie Allinson

Meet Julie Allinson, designer of eyebobs—funky and irreverent readers with tongue-in-cheek names such as Old Money, Adult SuperVision, and Hostile Makeover.

January 2008

Andrew Comfort

Andrew Comfort

Meet Minneapolis architect Andrew Comfort, inventor of Q-Ba-Maze, a captivating, open-ended creative toy. (Oh, and he also used to design museums with Polshek Partnership Architects in NYC.)

December 2007

George Moskal

George Moskal

George Moskal started out creating clothes for his sister's Barbies, so it's no surprise he is known for his female-form–enhancing designs.

November 2007

Kara Richter

Kara Richter

Richter and her business partner Samuel Mangiere carry the season’s hottest handbags so middle-American fashionistas can too.

October 2007

Jennifer Wiacek

Jennifer Wiacek

Twin Cities Supper Club started out with a list of about thirty people and has since grown to include more than 750 area professionals.

September 2007

Carly Stipe

Carly Stipe

Carly Stipe is a contemporary fiber artist and maker of duct tape purses.

August 2007

Mary Laurel True

Mary Laurel True

Augsburg College’s True thinks globally in a rapidly shrinking world.

July 2007

Maxine Davis

Maxine Davis

Maxine Davis launched Every Life Is a Story, a company that makes documentary-style movies to record family histories.

June 2007

Beth Baker

Beth Baker

Beth Baker: paper lover, word nerd, and creator of Gillfoy Paper Arts.

May 2007

Tracy Arnold (right) and Tracy Dyer

Tracy Arnold and Tracy Dyer

Tracy Arnold and Tracy Dyer left their marketing careers to start the designer handbag line Urban Junket.

April 2007

Kim Carlson

Kim Carlson

Kim Carlson, EarthSmart Consumer and green-living maven.

March 2007

Michelle Courtright Bjork

Michelle Courtright Bjork

The creator of romeoshops.com and cocreator of julietshops.com, helps shoppers give great gifts to the opposite sex.

February 2007

Barry Rubin

Barry Rubin

Barry Rubin has amassed one of the largest limited-edition pen collections in the country.

January 2007

Marni Bumsted and Jane Dailey

Marni Bumsted and Jane Dailey

Marni Bumsted and Jane Dailey, local creators of Hollywood Fashion Tape, the must-have accessory for everyone who wants to feel—and look—put together.

December 2006

David Nifoussi

David Nifoussi

David Nifoussi, twenty-one, one of the Twin Cities’ youngest entrepreneurs, owns Eastern Onion Singing Telegrams and Flamingos by the Yard, which will do anything from—well, you get it.

November 2006

Lynn Elliot

Lynn Elliott

After evaluating the local foodie scene, Way-Cool Cooking School founder Lynn Elliott was drawn to the idea of a different type of cooking school—one that would also appeal to children.

October 2006

Craft Mafia

Craft Mafia

Hip design-conscious crafters form two new tongue-and-cheek craft groups.

September 2006


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