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Celebrating CEO Start graduates

Minnesota Spokesman Recorder featured the latest two graduations for the CEO Start group-learning opportunity.

Over an intensive 10-week journey, these determined entrepreneurs worked to validate their ideas, challenge their assumptions, and develop actionable business plans to turn their business ideas into a real venture.

The training culminated with a pair of pitch events where participants showcased their ideas to a group of friends, family, and peers. 

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When Pizza Karma founder and "chief pizza officer" Rajesh Selvaraj joined CEO Now, things were going well for the company. But Rajesh knew he and the leadership team had to work on consistency to meet their big goals.

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For more than a decade, Hennepin County has supported the business community with economic development programming to build a stronger, more equitable, and resilient local economy.