It takes special people to live in the U.P. and be happy about the long winter and the short rest of the year--but those who do live here are more than just hardy and determined, they're inventive, too, as UP Second Wave managing editor Sam Eggleston writes.
Source: Michigan Newswire
Friends and family may have thought they were crazy, but mushers Ed and Tasha Stielstra saw a successful dog sledding kennel where others saw the middle of nowhere. Second Wave's Kurt Mensching took a trip to McMillan to talk to the Stielstras about their business, their dogs and the fun that goes with it.
It's never easy to know how well your idea for a great business holds up until you take the time to present it to people who know the ins and outs of the entrepreneurial world. Your chance to do that is now, as David Saint-Onge explains, with The Edge--an Upper Peninsula business plan competition.
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