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Troy Kopischke Builds Companies in the Messy Middle
The Minneapolis engineer turned venture-studio builder has spent three decades translating difficult science into operating companies - and lately, applying the same appetite for data to the cockpit.
Margaret Murphy Took a Gap Year - Then Built the Agency She Couldn’t Find
After 25 years inside marketing’s machinery, Margaret Murphy stopped, listened, and sketched a different kind of firm. Bold Orange grew from that pause - and from her insistence that customer experience and company culture belong in the same conversation.
Eric Krueger Found a Freight Problem Nobody Wanted to Own
A failed software search gave the Minneapolis founder his opening. Now he is trying to make freight's paperwork move as quickly as the freight itself.
Joe Schaeppi Is Teaching Machines to Ask a Better Question: Why?
Before Solsten could model an audience, its founder had to connect psychotherapy, powder days, Fortune 500 UX and one consequential cold email. The result is a career-long argument for looking past the click to the person making it.
Chris Smith Bet Against the Startup Script - and Built Kipsu for the Long Game
The former venture capitalist knew every fashionable way to fund a software company. He chose customer revenue, plain text messages and patience instead - then spent more than a decade turning small service moments into a durable Minneapolis business.