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Business Brief — 280 episodes

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Teaching tattooing in prison parlors

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Attracting Argentinian food fans

3

A philosophy of entrepreneurship

4

An asphalt artery of Americana

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A new wrinkle in the old ballgame

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Making the World Cup commute

7

Diving into dark pool trading

8

Funding Missouri history

9

Navigating tariff uncertainty

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Capital challenges in banking deserts

11

Catching the curling craze

12

Selling Missouri soybeans

13

Less bang for your bonbon buck

14

The down-low on data centers

15

The return-to-office mandate debate

16

Competition in the gambling market

17

Turkey-nomics

18

Turning the data tap back on

19

Growing farm income

20

From the Fed to the farm

21

What's powering energy prices

22

The costs of a soybean boycott

23

From farm to table to blockchain

24

Produce meets power with agrivoltaics

25

Economic agency in the 'Swiftie' era

26

A new spin on ride-sharing

27

Unions rally against erosion of labor rights

28

The rising costs of making hay

29

Business Brief: A health care workforce checkup

30

Envisioning a nuclear-powered future

31

Tax deductions for tipped workers

32

The sunset of a solar tax credit

33

Mining Missouri's future

34

Expanding access to technical education

35

An unclear picture for arts funding

36

AI is changing how banks lend

37

Student chefs chasing cheddar

38

A snag in the dress supply chain

39

Solar's cloudy outlook

40

Furniture sellers face cost concerns

41

A fashion show for family

42

Where sausage links culture, commerce

43

Making the most of microloans

44

Tariff Talks: Imports in peril

45

Bagging self-checkout

46

The climbing cost of canning

47

Tariff Talks: Anxiety in agriculture

48

A tale of three tariffs

49

We all scream for ice cream franchising

50

Immigration service providers under strain

51

The brass tacks on tax cuts

52

Talking tariffs

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Could tariffs stem flower imports?

54

Could consumers tire of Chiefs championships?

55

The ramifications of raising rates

56

Cooking with caffeine and cocoa

57

Hay there, homebuilders!

58

The marketing of a Midwest Princess

59

Why farmers are branching out into tree nuts

60

What's so scary about ghost jobs?

61

Cannabis microbusiness loans under scrutiny

62

Who wins and loses if sports gambling comes to Missouri?

63

What would a $15 minimum wage mean for Missouri?

64

Crafting collaboration through beer

65

Brews and tunes

66

Pumpkin to talk about

67

Catholic schools face the financial future

68

Overcoming entrepreneurial challenges with community

69

Microloans to uplift underserved entrepreneurs

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One year later, UAW leader reflects on strike

71

The rise of teal jobs

72

Going green with goats

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Small, private schools face a financial crunch

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Cicadas, disease and apple trees

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Handling heat when plants are your product

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Startup founders reflect on funding

77

The financial realities of roadwork

78

How festivals help artists stay afloat

79

Generative AI's in demand. So are workers who can use it.

80

What a TikTok ban could mean for creators

81

Trade school's in session

82

AI basics for small business

83

Small business in a fast-growing town

84

Business Brief: Total Eclipse of the Bluff

85

News with the fur

86

Shine bright like a lab-grown diamond

87

Sustainability crops up in Missouri agriculture

88

Business Brief: The rise of the mocktail

89

The cost of a caucus

90

Business Brief: Granting researchers tools to be entrepreneurs

91

Navigating the complex ethics of business AI

92

Serving the growth of women's sports in Kansas City

93

What's the shelf life of KC's Swift era?

94

It's beginning to look a lot like Thriftmas

95

Brewing up a beer company

96

Taking stock of the corn crop

97

From Startup Weekend to a multibillion-dollar business

98

Navigating the holiday retail rush

99

Sustainability for Small Businesses

100

Fighting homelessness with 3D-printed houses

101

The gradual recovery of restaurant jobs

102

Checking up on pharmacy protests

103

Winning the business license lottery

104

The economics of a shutdown

105

The legal push for cannabis lounges

106

How to communicate a corporate crisis

107

Music festival finance, from performer fees to porta-potties

108

High crypto fees in low-income communities

109

Entrepreneurship after incarceration

110

Marijuana microbusiness hopes and hurdles

111

A prehistoric startup roars to life

112

Bills, bills, bills

113

A crisis in assisted care

114

The farmer in the drought

115

Going all in on allyship

116

Pickleball — The real dill

117

Ethics and ecosystems in AI entrepreneurship

118

Beefing up the food supply chain

119

With climate tech, it takes green to go green

120

The budding business of cannabis festivals

121

A week to activate St. Louis tech

122

Conservation and leased farmland: A tough row to hoe

123

From OPEC+ to the pump

124

Where Missouri banks stand amid the turmoil

125

Breaking down a banking breakdown

126

The tricky taxation of Missouri's marijuana industry

127

How to feed a film festival

128

Business Brief: Short supply of affordable housing

129

The women of Missouri's marijuana industry

130

Cashing in on championship catchphrases

131

Sizing up Big Tech's downsizing

132

Business Brief: Inside a St. Louis startup exit

133

Business Brief: Businesses baked from scratch

134

Business Brief: The Urge to be an entrepreneur

135

Business Brief: 'Tis the season for supply shortages

136

Business Brief: When companies log off Twitter

137

Business Brief: Missouri is open for cannabis business

138

Business Brief: Capital and credit in the cannabis industry

139

Business Brief: Frightening finance of haunted houses

140

Business Brief: Can small canna-businesses compete in Missouri?

141

Business Brief: An antidote to what ails nursing

142

Business Brief: The rise and demise of Missouri's Hispanic commission

143

Business Brief: Mortgage rate? Not great.

144

Business Brief: Brewing IPAs, ruing the CPI

145

Business Brief: Taking first aid on the road

146

Business Brief: Building barrels for Napa Valley wine

147

Business Brief: Teachers take stock

148

Business Brief: Power to the pilots

149

Business Brief: Zooming into politics

150

Business Brief: The difficult decision to sell a small business

151

Business Brief: Combating the gender wealth gap

152

Business Brief: Unjamming the bicycle supply chain

153

Business Brief: Esports for all

154

Business Brief: The four-day work week experiment

155

Business Brief: Going to the chapel in droves

156

Business Brief: Long odds for sports betting in Missouri

157

Business Brief: Solar demand heats up

158

Business Brief: What to make of maker spaces

159

Business Brief: A win for women's soccer and Kansas City's riverfront

160

Business Brief: Inside the Fed's inflation fight

161

Business Brief: Unpacking a clash over meat processing

162

Business Brief: Lights, camera, tax credits

163

Business Brief: When the cost of club sports keeps kids sidelined

164

Business Brief: The economic fallout of a baseball lockout

165

Business Brief: A push for equity in a brand-new industry

166

Business Brief: At the center of a child care crunch

167

Business Brief: Showing love with social enterprise

168

Business Brief: How the shows must go on

169

Business Brief: Visions of Napa Valley in Missouri

170

Market Dives: All eyes on indicators (Part 2)

171

Market Dives: All eyes on indicators (Part 1)

172

Market Dives: Digging into the transition from coal

173

Market Dives: It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas challenges

174

Market Dives: A window into the housing crunch

175

Market Dives: Gas tax brass tacks

176

Market Dives: What's in a name, image and likeness?

177

Speaking Startup: A tale of two types of retail

178

Speaking Startup: What's cooking for Black Restaurant Week?

179

Speaking Startup: Twain, tours and entrepreneurs

180

Speaking Startup: The chalet strategy

181

Speaking Startup: Plush pandemic picnics 'for the Gram'

182

Speaking Startup: Making green celebrating red, white and blue

183

Speaking Startup: What a jolt of US tech spending might mean in Missouri

184

Speaking Startup: Without branches, neobanks take root

185

Speaking Startup: A pandemic pivot from dogs to wine

186

Speaking Startup: Balancing books, business and basketball

187

Speaking Startup: The attack of the SPAC

188

Speaking Startup: There's no such thing as bad 'Shark Tank'

189

Speaking Startup: Social enterprises of all shapes and sizes

190

Speaking Startup: Parsing pandemic entrepreneurship data

191

Speaking Startup: Fun with non-fungible tokens

192

Speaking Startup: Sleep science and entrepreneurship

193

Speaking Startup: A fitness business making gains in a pandemic

194

Speaking Startup: Digging into Missouri's history of Black entrepreneurs

195

Speaking Startup: Accelerating diversity in St. Louis startups

196

Speaking Startup: The teledoctor is in

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Speaking Startup: A pandemic pause and big restart for venture capital

198

Speaking Startup: A pandemic, a Netflix hit and a chess boom

199

Speaking Startup: Hunting and the rural entrepreneurs who depend on it

200

Speaking Startup: Putting St. Louis geospatial startups on the map

201

Speaking Startup: A cornucopia of small-scale entrepreneurship

202

Speaking Startup: In a small town on the brink, entrepreneurs get creative

203

Speaking Startup: Entrepreneurs on the election

204

Speaking Startup: Lessons learned launching an accelerator in a pandemic

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Speaking Startup: The new business of old clothes

206

Speaking Startup: Cultivating 'the future of food' in St. Louis

207

Speaking Startup: Taking the plunge amid a pandemic

208

Speaking Startup: Solving the disparity in STEM fields

209

Speaking Startup: Addressing the gender funding gap

210

Speaking Startup: Teledentistry takes root

211

Speaking Startup: Accelerating entrepreneurs' pandemic pivots

212

Speaking Startup: Driven by a desire for diversity

213

Speaking Startup: Beware the coronavirus cyberattacks

214

Speaking Startup: What gives, millennial entrepreneurs?

215

Speaking Startup: Supporting Black businesses by starting with kids

216

Speaking Startup: Coworking in the coronavirus age

217

Speaking Startup: Gauging the pandemic's toll on women entrepreneurs

218

Speaking Startup: Entrepreneurs born of necessity

219

Speaking Startup: Tracking the decline of state entrepreneurship funding

220

Speaking Startup: The pandemic's toll on a tourism town

221

Speaking Startup: The big investor pitch moves online

222

Speaking Startup: Makers pitch in to produce PPE

223

Speaking Startup: How to track a pandemic without compromising privacy

224

Speaking Startup: Gauging entrepreneurs' concerns in a pandemic

225

Speaking Startup: Working from home and avoiding door handles

226

Speaking Startup: Growing girls in gaming

227

Speaking Startup: Big aspirations in small Missouri towns

228

Speaking Startup: A new face at a familiar KC entrepreneurship group

229

Speaking Startup: The ripple effects of a corporate mega-merger

230

Speaking Startup: Cutting through the hyperloop hype

231

Speaking Startup: How to 'shop local' this holiday season

232

Speaking Startup: The big significance of Small Business Saturday

233

Speaking Startup: A look at inclusion and Global Entrepreneurship Week

234

Speaking Startup: A new name in local news

235

Speaking Startup: A grassroots group of women helping women lead

236

Speaking Startup: The art of the elevator pitch

237

Speaking Startup: Cultivation Capital goes coastal

238

Speaking Startup: Revitalizing rural Missouri through entrepreneurship

239

Speaking Startup: Recruiting top tech talent 'Back2KC'

240

Speaking Startup: A new event to connect KC entrepreneurs to capital

241

Speaking Startup: The expansion of a Springfield accelerator

242

Speaking Startup: Assessing the state of VC in KC

243

Speaking Startup: A postcard from the businesses of a small-town square

244

Speaking Startup: The business of yoga ... with goats (August 1, 2019)

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Speaking Startup - Bringing tech innovation to the farm

246

Pitchin: Episode 5 - The Future

247

Speaking Startup: Smart homes and wellness at work

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Pitchin' - Episode 4 - The Pitch

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Speaking Startup: Navigating Missouri's CBD industry (July 11, 2019)

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Pitchin: Episode 3 - The Struggle

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Pitchin': Episode 2 - The Team

252

Speaking Startup: Funding talk with the Women's Capital Connection (June 27, 2019)

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Pitchin': Episode 1 - The Idea

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Speaking Startup: Entrepreneurship education goes to prison (June 21, 2019)

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Speaking Startup: Your business does what? (May 3, 2019)

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Speaking Startup: The risky business of music festivals

257

Speaking Startup: Getting started in medical marijuana

258

Speaking Startup: Invisibly, AdSwapper and the changing world of ad tech

259

Speaking Startup: Health care's Digital Future

260

Speaking Startup: Trash to treasure (Feb. 15, 2019)

261

Speaking Startup: Surveying Missouri's startup landscape in 2019 (Feb. 1, 2019)

262

Outstate: Where Mexico turned when the bricks went away

263

Speaking Startup: Chatting coworking with Hatchery founder Amanda Quick

264

Speaking Startup: Cannabis entrepreneurs and Missouri's emerging market

265

Speaking Startup: Arlan Hamilton talks Backstage Capital; a seed business blooms in Kirksville

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Speaking Startup: Lessons in language from an executive coach; coworking as a high school class

267

Speaking Startup: Techweek Kansas City debrief; Startup Weekend Columbia reflections

268

Speaking Startup: Podcast creator Amy Martin on the business of audio journalism

269

Speaking Startup: The wide-open world of AI

270

Speaking Startup: A method to the scooter madness

271

Speaking Startup: A craft beer boom and a 'fake meat' fight

272

Speaking Startup: Startup Week, car sharing, St. Louis venture capital, SXSW

273

Speaking Startup: Fintech regulations in focus; TripSushi founder on travel

274

Speaking Startup: Disrupting payday lending in KC; supporting entrepreneurs in Kirksville (July 27)

275

Speaking Startup: scooters, Techstars, Arch Grants

276

Speaking Startup: plastic straws, blockchain, Talent for Tomorrow, Digital Sandbox KC

277

Speaking Startup: St. Louis startup acquired; MowMagic cofounders share details of their launch

278

Speaking Startup: Amazon delivery, sales tax, KC Crew, True/False

279

Speaking Startup: AMC answers MoviePass; Zach Pettet on KC's new fintech accelerator (June 22, 2018)

280

Speaking Startup: Ripple Glass' rise, net neutrality's demise, AI in the office (June 14, 2018)