Multi-Dimensional Team
Garage Starts has compiled a hard-working and dedicated team who is hungry to solve problems. This work ethic is what drives our team to provide premium service.
Garage Starts is your Business Solution
Garage Starts goal is simple in that it builds entrepreneurs and empowers them to do business
Hands-On Approach
For each client, we take a completely personalized approach for finding solutions to help their business. We work directly with each client in order to find solutions that will work best for them.
Community Driven
Garage Starts is a team of people who all care about the community of Two Harbors. Our goal is to leave this area better than we have found it.
Our Values
Bold – We are confident and courageous
Entrepreneurial – We support the creation and development of economic ventures
Ethical – Strong morals, helping others, and doing good
Fun – We work hard and have fun
Collaborative – Teamwork on steroids, we don’t build silos we break them down
Open and Honest – We are straightforward and receptive
Our Purpose
The Garage Start mission is to provide solutions for the world’s problems through entrepreneurship. Our team is devoted to providing quality service in order to make the community of Two Harbors a more vibrant and inviting area.
Our Niche
We seek to strengthen, support, and empower entrepreneurs.
Our Goal
In ten years our goal is to help launch 5000 entrepreneurs. By achieving this goal we believe that we are helping solve the world’s problems
What can we offer you?
Our Team
Calvin Luhrsen
Implemention Team
Mr. Luhrsen is graduated from the University of St. Thomas, Opus College of Business with a degree in Entrepreneurship. He has experience in all aspects of starting and executing a business. He is co-owner of Minnesota Nice Threads which has been operating for three years and has interned at various other businesses. He is a two-time Schulze Entrepreneurship Scholarship recipient and a former participant in DECA when he was a high school student in Two Harbors.
Chad Nordean
Business Administration, Supply Chain Manager
Mr. Nordean studied Supply Chain Management at the University of Wisconsin-Superior. He has a passion for the city of Two Harbors and wants to see the town become vibrant. He also has experience in business having grown up involved in his family's company, Bud Nosen Models.
Chris Swanson
Chief Visionary Officer
Chris has been involved in many businesses from a very young age. He offers a visionary approach to business but has also been very successful in getting projects completed and is skilled at building great energetic and passionate teams of people. He often considers himself a cheerleader for a project and can take what most people consider a negative situation and make it positive. Chris’s background is in technology, retail, franchising, and marketing.
Jordan Seidel
Director of Marketing
Mr. Seidel studied Marketing and Communication at the University of Minnesota Duluth. He was raised along the North Shore of Lake Superior in Two Harbors and has a passion for the area. Mr. Seidel has had experience in the retail, golf, and restaurant industries. Last year he had the opportunity to intern for PureDriven, a digital and social media marketing company working in the marketing aspects of the company.
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Organization: Life Garage, LLC aka Garage Starts
Address: 629 7th Ave, Ste. 7, Two Harbors, MN 55616
Telephone: (218) 302-1809