In 1967 in Winona, MN, a man named Bob opened a 1000-square-foot shop selling nuts and bolts. Nothing about this little shop screamed “future Fortune 500 company.” But Bob wasn’t just building a fastener supply business – he was about to disrupt conventional business models with some good old Midwestern common sense. Bob trusted his […]
Author Archives: Jeremy Schwach
“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them”
I was an 18-year-old at University of Wisconsin – Madison when I started my first company. Mad-bus provided tailored transportation to UW-Madison students from Minnesota – we picked students up at their dorms, showed the latest VHS releases (and fixed the VCR when it jammed), and inked partnerships with Red Bull (oof!), Fresh Market, and, […]
We Can Have Nice Things ….
I took my 90-year-old grandma out for a nice Memorial Day brunch. It was a wonderful afternoon. It wasn’t until I was back home 60 miles away that I realized my AirPods must have slipped out of my pocket. After a few phone calls to the hotel and some help from Find My, Trevor, the […]
1981 is calling…it wants its fax machine back.
I’ve been playing a lot of padel in Miami lately (it’s all the rage). I’m also inching my way towards old age. I suspect that’s one of the reasons I developed a bad case of tennis elbow. My doc decided I should get an MRI to play it safe. After calling a local imaging center (of course […]
Solving a sumo-sized healthcare problem
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