Ryan Broshar

Ryan started my first venture when I was 7 years old, harvesting and selling sweet corn door to door in his hometown in Iowa. While lucrative, he've since gone on to be the founder of multiple startups including University Guide; a university-based publication business that he started while at the University of Minnesota, and sold two years out of college.Following this sale, he moved to Boulder for my MBA at CU-Boulder. The energy around tech and startups in Boulder acted as a catalyst for him to start something similar when I moved back to the Twin Cities in 2012. In short order, Ryan co-founded Beta.MN, Twin Cities Startup Week and the Techstars Retail Accelerator w/ Target.Ryan loves founders from atypical backgrounds. He relates to diverse, humble founders who have a chip on their shoulder and identify as the “underdogs.” They assemble humble, hard-working teams obsessed with the problems they are solving. Real problems that are worth solving.