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08/20/2026

Spent the morning dropping off Build Something Great flyers around Minneapolis — community boards, local shops, anywhere a business owner might actually see one.

This cohort is free. Twelve weeks. It’s for business owners who’ve already been earning money for two years or more and are ready to stop guessing and build a real, written plan for their business. Applications close August 21.

If you spot one of our flyers around the city, that’s your sign. Apply at buildsomethinggreat.netlify.app, or call 612-396-4678 and someone on our team will walk you through it.

📍 Wednesdays, virtual
📅 Starts September 16
💵 No cost to you
⏰ Applications close Friday, August 21
🔗 https://buildsomethinggreat.netlify.app/

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08/20/2026

Under our group coaching and consulting umbrella is a program we take very seriously called teen esteem. Developing business leaders early is the investment we are not scared to make. Our Chief greatness officer is the board chair for the center for broadcast journalism, so you know we have to reach back and develop young journalism leaders whenever we can

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Real question: what does next year look like if nothing changes?Be honest about the answer. Probably a lot like this yea...
08/19/2026

Real question: what does next year look like if nothing changes?

Be honest about the answer. Probably a lot like this year. Busy. Getting by. Still guessing at the prices. Still the only one who can do the thing. Still unable to say out loud where the business is going, because you still won’t know.

Now the other version. Twelve Wednesdays. A couple of hours a week. And by December you’re holding the whole thing, you know your numbers, you’ve fixed what you charge, and you can finally see forward.

Same year either way. One of them ends differently.

Applications close Friday.

📍 Wednesdays, virtual
📅 Starts September 16
💵 No cost to you
⏰ Applications close Friday, August 21
🔗 https://buildsomethinggreat.netlify.app/

Applications are coming in. If you’re going to apply, do it this week.But first — you were never supposed to carry all o...
08/18/2026

Applications are coming in. If you’re going to apply, do it this week.

But first — you were never supposed to carry all of it.

That’s worth sitting with, because most owners have never been told. Somewhere along the way you absorbed every job in the building. Sales, service, books, marketing, the thing that breaks at 6am. Not because you wanted to. Because it needed doing and you were there.

And now the business has grown around you like a tree around a fence post, and there’s no room in it that isn’t you.

That’s not a character flaw and it’s not permanent. It’s what happens when a business grows without a plan. Nobody hands off what they’ve never mapped — and almost nobody has ever mapped it, because who has the time.

Twelve weeks and you’ll have it on paper. Every function, who’s holding it, what it’s costing you. And the day you can see it is the day you can start putting some of it down.

Build Something Great · A free twelve-week cohort with the Minneapolis Downtown Council’s Chameleon program. Wednesdays, virtual · September 16 – December 16 · No cost to you. For BIPOC and women-owned businesses earning revenue two years or more. Applications close Friday, August 21

https://buildsomethinggreat.netlify.app/

08/17/2026

Building the business that fits you is what we are called to do in the twin cities and beyond. Just like an elite chef we want to make sure that we break down your strengths, and build up your weaknesses to cook up the best business plan possible.

Haven’t signed up for the Build Something Great co-hort yet? Go click that link below so we invest on the dream you have been hustling for!

📍Wednesdays, virtual
📆 Starts September 16th
💵 No cost to you
⏰ Applications close Friday August 21st
🔗 https://buildsomethinggreat.netlify.app/

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08/14/2026

At Something Great, we understand the work it takes not only to run a business, but to support other businesses and community events that drive us all forward. This is something we take pride in and love to champion as we help business owners in Minneapolis — and all over the nation — take their business to the next level.

If that’s something you’re passionate about too, sign up for Build Something Great — a free twelve-week cohort with the Minneapolis Downtown Council’s Chameleon program.

📍 Wednesdays, virtual
📅 Starts September 16
💵 No cost to you
⏰ Applications close Friday, August 21
🔗 https://buildsomethinggreat.netlify.app/


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08/12/2026

Here’s what actually changes. Not what you learn — what changes.

You stop guessing. Right now you have a feel for how the business is doing, and a feel is expensive. When you can finally read your own numbers, you find out which thing has been carrying the whole operation and which thing has been quietly bleeding you for two years. Owners say this is the week the fog lifts.

You stop charging too little. Almost every owner does, somewhere. Not because they’re timid — because nobody ever showed them how to build a price out of what it actually costs them, instead of copying the shop down the street. Fixing one price can change a whole year.

You get the business off your back. You see every job in it and who’s actually doing them, probably for the first time. And the weight you’ve been carrying alone turns into a list — and a list can be handed off, hired for, scheduled, survived.

And you stop being the only one. Twelve weeks in a room of people who know exactly what your Tuesday feels like, and who are still in your phone in January.

That’s what’s on the other side of this.
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Build Something Great · A free twelve-week cohort with the Minneapolis Downtown Council’s Chameleon program
Wednesdays, virtual · Starts September 16 · No cost to you
Applications close Friday, August 21 · Link in bio

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08/11/2026

Right now, you are the plan.

The whole strategy lives in your head. What things cost. Which customer is worth chasing. What to say yes to. Which corner you can cut this month and which one you can’t. None of it is written anywhere, because it never had to be — you were always there.

That works right up until the day it doesn’t. Until you’re sick. Until you want a vacation. Until someone offers to help and you realize you can’t explain your own business fast enough to hand any of it over. Until somebody asks you to show them how it all works and all you have is everything you know, with no way to put it in front of them.

A business that only exists in your head has a ceiling, and the ceiling is you.

Getting it out of your head and onto paper is not busywork. It’s the thing that lets the business grow past the limits of one exhausted person.

That’s twelve weeks. And you write every word of it, so it actually sounds like you.
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Build Something Great · A free twelve-week cohort with the Minneapolis Downtown Council’s Chameleon program
Wednesdays, virtual · Starts September 16 · No cost to you
Applications close Friday, August 21 · Link in bio

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It’s a Wednesday. It’s cold. You’re standing up in a room of business owners who have watched you work for three months,...
08/10/2026

It’s a Wednesday. It’s cold. You’re standing up in a room of business owners who have watched you work for three months, and you’re pitching your own business — out loud, with confidence, from a plan you wrote yourself.

You know your margins. You know what you should be charging, and you’ve already fixed the price that was quietly costing you. You know what you’re built to lead and what you should have handed off two years ago. And when somebody asks where the business is going, you don’t change the subject. You tell them, and it’s specific, and it’s true.

That’s not a fantasy version of you. That’s just you, twelve weeks from now, with information you should have had all along.

Not just a certificate. A business that runs differently.

Swipe for what’s actually in your hands that day.

One honest thing while you’re deciding: no funding comes with this. Something Great doesn’t lend money. What a finished plan does is put you in a room where a lender can say yes.

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Build Something Great · A free twelve-week cohort with the Minneapolis Downtown Council’s Chameleon program
Wednesdays, virtual · September 16 – December 16 · No cost to you
For BIPOC and women-owned businesses earning revenue two years or more
Applications close Friday, August 21 · Link in bio

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08/06/2026

There was a version of this business you pictured before you started.

Do you remember it? In that version you had time. You had help. You knew what everything cost and what everything earned. You could take a Friday off without your phone turning into a fire alarm. The business was something you built, not something that was slowly building itself around you.

Somewhere in the last few years, that version got quiet. Not because you gave up on it — because you got busy keeping the real one alive.

Here’s what we’ve watched happen over and over: that version isn’t gone. It’s just waiting on a plan. Because almost everything standing between the business you have and the business you pictured comes down to information you were never given, and decisions you’ve been making in the dark.

Twelve weeks. And at the end of it you can see the whole thing.

Build Something Great · A free twelve-week cohort with the Minneapolis Downtown Council’s Chameleon program
Wednesdays, virtual · Starts September 16 · No cost to you
Applications close Friday, August 21 · https://buildsomethinggreat.netlify.app/

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