Business: Family-owned bakery makes and sells cookies, muffins, cupcakes, bars and other treats
Founded: 2006
Headquarters: St. Paul
Website: saintpaulclassiccookie.blogspot.com
Employees: 2 part-time
Executives: Katherine Novotny and Ebba Benti, owners
2007 revenue: $125,000
Strategy: Grow retail sales at current location, open wholesale bakery to increase volume
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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