Discussing dumpsters over dinner isn't exactly romantic.
But that's how David and Sara Russick spent date nights in their budding relationship. Their passion for building a trash collection business later led to their 1997 marriage and to Bagster, a start-up so successful that Waste Management bought the company and its indestructible trash bags two years ago.
Now the entrepreneurial couple is on to a new love: being investors.
The Russicks launched Gopher Angels, an investor network that will recruit wealthy individuals to put at least $50,000 into Minnesota start-ups within two years. The network will address a dire need among local entrepreneurs who are struggling to raise money to fund promising innovations.
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