Steve Sydness

{{Short description|American politician and businessman}}

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Steven "Steve" Sydness (born c. 1956. died April 16, 2014) was an American politician and businessman. He was the Republican Party nominee for one of North Dakota's open United States Senate seats in the 1992 election, and was the former CEO of the Endurance International Group in Massachusetts.[http://www.enduranceinternational.com/acquisitions/management.bml Management Team] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090122004133/http://www.enduranceinternational.com/acquisitions/management.bml |date=22 January 2009 }} Before running for The US Senate, he had helped found Great Plains Software in North Dakota, and had served as city commissioner of Fargo.{{cite news |title=Dorgan Wins Senate, Schafer Governor North Dakota |url=https://apnews.com/article/a9c754567d228833c8e644829a2b017d |work=AP NEWS |date=November 4, 1992 |language=en}} He was a graduate of Principia College in Elsah, IL and Harvard Business School in Cambridge, MA where he received his MBA in 1981.{{cite news |last1=Burgess |first1=Erik |title=Former Great Plains Software executive, U.S. Senate candidate Sydness dies |url=https://www.grandforksherald.com/business/former-great-plains-software-executive-u-s-senate-candidate-sydness-dies |access-date=12 November 2022 |work=Grand Forks Herald |date=1 May 2014 |language=en}}{{cite web |title=Fourteen Entrepreneurs-in-Residence Join Harvard Business School |url=https://www.hbs.edu/news/releases/Pages/entrepreneurs-in-residence-2013.aspx |website=Harvard Business School |language=en |date=15 October 2013}}