The Entrepreneur Fund is pleased and excited to have celebrated the opening of its newest office and second Women's Business Alliance location in Little Falls, Minnesota with an Open House on Friday, November 30. Over 50 business professionals and community members attended the Open House to see the new office, meet new Women's Business Alliance Director and new Entrepreneur Fund team member Sandy Voigt and learn more about the Entrepreneur Fund's offerings.

Ursa Minor Brewing had a major debut on September 26, 2018, and it has been a long time coming. Owners Ben Hugus, Mark Hugus and Andrew Scrignoli worked nonstop for over three years to realize their dream of opening a local, craft brewery in Duluth. We spoke with the Ursa Minor team back in April (check out the blog post), when preparations to open the brewery were in full swing. Today, we were just happy to catch a few moments with the guys amid the excitement and chaos of the first few days in business.

The Entrepreneur Fund and Great River Energy celebrated a $1 million program loan from Great River Energy powering partnership and entrepreneurship in the region. This partnership will benefit small business owners and entrepreneurs in the shared service area of the Entrepreneur Fund and Great River Energy, where the Entrepreneur Fund provides consulting, programming, training and small business financing up to $750,000.