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The Wisconsin native first discovered his love for team dynamics in high school, playing on the football team. He pursued that passion into college, playing as the tight-end on the college football team for four years even though his school didn’t offer football scholarships. After he graduated, he looked for a job that could offer him that same team spirit, and he found it in a rather surprising place: Walmart.
Just weeks after Daniel Theobald graduated from Minnesota State University, Mankato in 1989, he got a call from Scott Veldman, the president of Micro-Trak Systems in Eagle Lake. The company, Veldman said, was looking to expand its sales force—would Theobald be interested in interviewing for a position?
When it comes to business, remaining the same is usually not the best business model. Shrewd business owners and entrepreneurs realize that for a business to thrive, it needs to keep growing and improving. That expansion can happen in many ways, whether it’s adding a location, a product line or a new employee.
When Amy Stearns and Kari Mulvihill began chatting over their lunch hour at Carlson Craft, they never thought it would lead to them opening their own business together.
It’s hard to believe that this issue marks the one-year anniversary for my time here as editor. Technically, I started on Jan. 2, 2015, but the first issue that was “mine” was our March 2015 spread. I remember walking into my office on Jan. 2 and thinking, “They must have made a mistake. Why on earth did they hire me?”
Kristi Schuck and Marie Farley Christensen became friends under rather difficult circumstances: the two women were attending a support group for people who lost their spouses to cancer.
Jeff Eckerdt has been riding motorcycles since he was a kid, so it makes sense that he recently opened his own motorcycle parts and service business.
Habitat for Humanity of South Central Minnesota’s seventh annual Home Tweet Home will be on April 21 at the Country Inn
The Regional Center for Entrepreneurial Facilitation (RCEF) is still looking for entrepreneurs to participate in its remaining 2016 BizPitch events. BizPitch
