Business: A make-and-take entrée-assembly business
Founded: 2004
Headquarters: Eagan
Website: www.socialegourmet.com
Executive: Founders Lisa and Jason Hake
Employees: Six full time, 19 part time
2005 revenue: $1 million, on track to reach $1.5 million this year
Quote: "We truly were our target market." -- Lisa Hake, talking about how the busy lives she and her husband led as part of the corporate rat race led to their make-and-take food business.
Just as Lawrence Kazmerski, a top official at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, was about to give the keynote address at the University of Minnesota's annual E3 conference at the RiverCentre in St. Paul, the lights went out, bathing the audience in darkness and a deep sense of irony.
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