by Krysti Mikkonen | Nov 8, 2021 | food and drink, Minnesota, Podcast, rural entrepreneur
Jill Blashack Strahan used to put together gift baskets and sell them in her Minnesota town as an active rural entrepreneur. She started small and it got bigger and bigger, but it wasn’t working as she’d hoped and she decided to close the...
by Krysti Mikkonen | Oct 27, 2021 | Podcast, rural entrepreneur, small business, South Dakota
Jordan Phillips is more than a cross-country runner. She’s also more than a sister, daughter of a cancer survivor, and high school senior. And she’s more than a heck of an eloquent speaker. Jordan is an entrepreneur who at 12 years old had a product she...
by Krysti Mikkonen | Oct 20, 2021 | food and drink, Podcast, rural entrepreneur, small business
In today’s episode of the rural entrepreneurs, gold, you’re going to meet Greg Franklin, also known by some as the cheesecake ninja in his rural town of Perryville, Missouri, a town of about 8500. Greg is going to share how this guy, who didn’t...
by Krysti Mikkonen | Oct 7, 2021 | food and drink, North Dakota, Podcast, rural entrepreneur, small business
In today’s episode of the rural entrepreneurs, gold, we’re going to hear the accidental entrepreneur story of a business start-up that was anything but planned. See some businesses just happen when you least expect it, at any age, and at any time in...
by Krysti Mikkonen | Sep 23, 2021 | art and music, food and drink, rural entrepreneur, South Dakota
In this episode of the Rural Entrepreneur’s Gold, you’ll hear from Carly Pochop who seems to be a serial rural entrepreneur who started multiple businesses over the last five years in Aberdeen, SD a town in SD that has a population a little over 28,000. ...
by Krysti Mikkonen | Sep 16, 2021 | home decor, North Dakota, rural entrepreneur, small business
This is a cool story of how this creative rural entrepreneur and his business partners moved their business rural and how that move eventually inspired the creation of another successful rural business. Blain Mikkonen is a founder and co-owner of a few businesses, two...
