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SARACURA
Business: Boutique specializing in selling belly-dancing apparel, jewelry and other handmade ideas from local artists
Founded: 2000
Headquarters: Minneapolis
Website: www.saracura.com
Executives: Sarah Dorman and Alice Marks, owners
2007 revenue: $52,000, after July reopening
Strategy: Develop Web-based catalog to generate additional sales, host more in-store classes and events to attract more customers
WOMENVENTURE
The nonprofit economic development agency helps clients start or expand businesses, change and manage careers and gain financial literacy skills. It has helped more than 90,000 people in the past 30 years.
Its operating budget of $2 million comes from public and private grants and donations, the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development, the cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis and the Small Business Administration.
What: 30th anniversary celebration
When: 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Friday, May 2
Where: Minnesota History Center, 345 W. Kellogg Blvd., St. Paul
Register: Tickets are $50 a person, $200 for groups of five. To register, call 651-646-3808, ext. 114, or visit www.womenventure.org, and choose "events."
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