Business: Provides loan-portfolio analysis software to banks in the quasi-governmental farm credit system.
Founded: Late 1999
Headquarters: Apple Valley
Website: www.loananalytics.com
Executive: Founder Tim Wilberding
Employees: 1
2008 revenue: $229,000; on track to top $350,000 in 2009
Quote: "When getting out of bed was the hardest thing I did all day, I knew it was time to quit." -- Wilberding, explaining why he quit the professional rodeo circuit at age 27.
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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