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What it Takes: The Bitter Housewife

What it Takes: The Bitter Housewife

We started with just making cocktail bitters, but there’s not a lot of folks making bitters. That means there aren’t many models for what the business should look like or how to scale it or even how to solve production issues.
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What it Takes: Good Pencil Co.

What it Takes: Good Pencil Co.

In the beginning, we started the business to help teachers who were having to pay for their own school supplies out of their own pocket. We also wanted to promote the concepts of sustainable business and environmentalism that are so important to us. We love what the B Corp community
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What it Takes: Ground Up Nut Butters

What it Takes: Ground Up Nut Butters

Ground Up nut butters started with the simple idea that if you give a womxn an opportunity, the trickle-down effect to her family and community would be powerful and transformational...
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What it Takes: Trew Gear

What it Takes: Trew Gear

We wanted our bibs to be priced and designed in a way that encourages beginner and intermediate riders to experience the backcountry. Today, we have a whole new understanding of what it means to be inclusive: race, beliefs, body-types...
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What it Takes: Sensi Graves Swim

What it Takes: Sensi Graves Swim

What it Takes is a series of interviews with founders who were brave enough to take the leap, make mistakes, pivot, and keep going. Sensi Graves Swim is a sustainable swimwear company for kickass women...
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What It Takes : MadeHere

What It Takes : MadeHere

Our Guest, MadeHere PDX We had the pleasure of connecting with John Connor, co-founder of MadeHere PDX, one of our favorite places to shop here in Portland, (and unapologetic plug -...
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