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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

Kristin Miller

Kristin Miller

St. Paulite Kristin Miller, owner of Zack & Zoe Bath, a vegan line of body washes, hand and body creams, and sugar scrubs, which were just picked up by national retailer Anthropologie.

August 2006

Maia Haag

Maia Haag

Maia Haag has sold some of her personalized children's books to some very A-list celebs.

July 2006

Dave Spencer

Dave Spencer

Dave Spencer's Ogi Frames focus on hip, stylish, affordable eyeglass frames.

June 2006

Mia Gray King and Robin Gretchen Scott

Mia Gray King and Robin Gretchen Scott

Twin Cities jewelry designers Mia Gray King and Robin Gretchen Scott want women to feel special when they wear gretchen gray.

May 2006

Sophie Alfano and Raina Belleau

Sophie Alfano and Raina Belleau

Teenagers Sophie Alfano and Raina Belleau co-owners BiblioBags, make purses out of old books.

April 2006

Cy Winship

Cy Winship

Cy Winship is a furniture upholsterer, interior designer, and regular contributor to HGTV's Decorating Cents with Joan Steffend.

March 2006


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