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A Tiny Minnesota Town Now Has Fast Wi-Fi and New Jobs, All Thanks to This Chain Mail Startup CEO Who Attended 1 Million Cups

The only solution, Ramstad decided, was to close up shop and let everyone go. She resolved to deliver the bad news on a Friday in the summer of 2014. That week, "I was trying to find things to keep me out of the office because I could not face my employees," she says. One such evasive action was a 75-minute drive to Fargo for a meeting of 1 Million Cups, an education and networking program run by the Kauffman Foundation.

After attending 1 Million Cups – "More important, Ramstad says, for the first time she no longer felt isolated. "I went home energized," she says. "Rather than letting people go on Friday I put an ad in the paper and hired three more."

By Leigh BuchananEditor-at-large, Inc. magazine@LeighEBuchanan

https://www.inc.com/leigh-buchanan/a-chain-mail-maker-brings-a-tiny-midwest-town-into-the-21st-century.html?cid=hmhero

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