Let’s Elevate the Conversation About Things that Matter to Our Community – An Interview with Charles Youel of ARTCRANK
ARTCRANK is a pop-up art show of bike-inspired posters that began in Minneapolis in 2007. Since then, they’ve been staging “bike art parties” in cities across the U.S. and beyond, including shows in Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Austin, Chicago, New York, Boston, London and Paris. The Minneapolis show features handmade, bike-inspired posters by local artists, and regularly attracts […]
The Startup Capital of the North
The Twin Cities are a fertile ground for creative thought, technological innovation, and savvy business people. This was made especially concrete at Beta.MN 2.0, an event allowing local startups to demo their products while meeting and mingling with entrepreneurs, investors, and supporters. The event was held Thursday, May 14, 2015 at the Surly brewery, which proved to be the […]
DrumLite: Fails on Kickstarter; Rocks out at Super Bowl
DrumLite™ founders Jeff Sevaldson and Joey Nesbitt I had the opportunity to interview Jeff Sevaldson, a former UST classmate of mine who is the Co-Founder of DrumLite™. No, I wasn’t compelled to interview them because their name also contains a play on the word “Lite / Light,” I was actually quite curious to see how they are using social to grow their […]
The Fowler Business Concept Challenge
The Social Lights have been involved with the UST Fowler Business Concept Challenge for the past four years. When “The Fowler” was founded in 2009, Martha and Emily competed in the scholarship competition with an idea for an innovative new bike lock. They happily took home third place and competed again the next year with […]
