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Business Brief — 290 episodes
Incubating the startup spirit
Soccer interest surges
Mulling a NIL overhaul
Slowing the screwworm spread
A figure skating boost
Fireworks sales projected to skyrocket
Driving data center deals
A Juneteenth job fair
Drawing support for state parks
Democratizing 401(k) investments
Teaching tattooing in prison parlors
Attracting Argentinian food fans
A philosophy of entrepreneurship
An asphalt artery of Americana
A new wrinkle in the old ballgame
Making the World Cup commute
Diving into dark pool trading
Funding Missouri history
Navigating tariff uncertainty
Capital challenges in banking deserts
Catching the curling craze
Selling Missouri soybeans
Less bang for your bonbon buck
The down-low on data centers
The return-to-office mandate debate
Competition in the gambling market
Turkey-nomics
Turning the data tap back on
Growing farm income
From the Fed to the farm
What's powering energy prices
The costs of a soybean boycott
From farm to table to blockchain
Produce meets power with agrivoltaics
Economic agency in the 'Swiftie' era
A new spin on ride-sharing
Unions rally against erosion of labor rights
The rising costs of making hay
Business Brief: A health care workforce checkup
Envisioning a nuclear-powered future
Tax deductions for tipped workers
The sunset of a solar tax credit
Mining Missouri's future
Expanding access to technical education
An unclear picture for arts funding
AI is changing how banks lend
Student chefs chasing cheddar
A snag in the dress supply chain
Solar's cloudy outlook
Furniture sellers face cost concerns
A fashion show for family
Where sausage links culture, commerce
Making the most of microloans
Tariff Talks: Imports in peril
Bagging self-checkout
The climbing cost of canning
Tariff Talks: Anxiety in agriculture
A tale of three tariffs
We all scream for ice cream franchising
Immigration service providers under strain
The brass tacks on tax cuts
Talking tariffs
Could tariffs stem flower imports?
Could consumers tire of Chiefs championships?
The ramifications of raising rates
Cooking with caffeine and cocoa
Hay there, homebuilders!
The marketing of a Midwest Princess
Why farmers are branching out into tree nuts
What's so scary about ghost jobs?
Cannabis microbusiness loans under scrutiny
Who wins and loses if sports gambling comes to Missouri?
What would a $15 minimum wage mean for Missouri?
Crafting collaboration through beer
Brews and tunes
Pumpkin to talk about
Catholic schools face the financial future
Overcoming entrepreneurial challenges with community
Microloans to uplift underserved entrepreneurs
One year later, UAW leader reflects on strike
The rise of teal jobs
Going green with goats
Small, private schools face a financial crunch
Cicadas, disease and apple trees
Handling heat when plants are your product
Startup founders reflect on funding
The financial realities of roadwork
How festivals help artists stay afloat
Generative AI's in demand. So are workers who can use it.
What a TikTok ban could mean for creators
Trade school's in session
AI basics for small business
Small business in a fast-growing town
Business Brief: Total Eclipse of the Bluff
News with the fur
Shine bright like a lab-grown diamond
Sustainability crops up in Missouri agriculture
Business Brief: The rise of the mocktail
The cost of a caucus
Business Brief: Granting researchers tools to be entrepreneurs
Navigating the complex ethics of business AI
Serving the growth of women's sports in Kansas City
What's the shelf life of KC's Swift era?
It's beginning to look a lot like Thriftmas
Brewing up a beer company
Taking stock of the corn crop
From Startup Weekend to a multibillion-dollar business
Navigating the holiday retail rush
Sustainability for Small Businesses
Fighting homelessness with 3D-printed houses
The gradual recovery of restaurant jobs
Checking up on pharmacy protests
Winning the business license lottery
The economics of a shutdown
The legal push for cannabis lounges
How to communicate a corporate crisis
Music festival finance, from performer fees to porta-potties
High crypto fees in low-income communities
Entrepreneurship after incarceration
Marijuana microbusiness hopes and hurdles
A prehistoric startup roars to life
Bills, bills, bills
A crisis in assisted care
The farmer in the drought
Going all in on allyship
Pickleball — The real dill
Ethics and ecosystems in AI entrepreneurship
Beefing up the food supply chain
With climate tech, it takes green to go green
The budding business of cannabis festivals
A week to activate St. Louis tech
Conservation and leased farmland: A tough row to hoe
From OPEC+ to the pump
Where Missouri banks stand amid the turmoil
Breaking down a banking breakdown
The tricky taxation of Missouri's marijuana industry
How to feed a film festival
Business Brief: Short supply of affordable housing
The women of Missouri's marijuana industry
Cashing in on championship catchphrases
Sizing up Big Tech's downsizing
Business Brief: Inside a St. Louis startup exit
Business Brief: Businesses baked from scratch
Business Brief: The Urge to be an entrepreneur
Business Brief: 'Tis the season for supply shortages
Business Brief: When companies log off Twitter
Business Brief: Missouri is open for cannabis business
Business Brief: Capital and credit in the cannabis industry
Business Brief: Frightening finance of haunted houses
Business Brief: Can small canna-businesses compete in Missouri?
Business Brief: An antidote to what ails nursing
Business Brief: The rise and demise of Missouri's Hispanic commission
Business Brief: Mortgage rate? Not great.
Business Brief: Brewing IPAs, ruing the CPI
Business Brief: Taking first aid on the road
Business Brief: Building barrels for Napa Valley wine
Business Brief: Teachers take stock
Business Brief: Power to the pilots
Business Brief: Zooming into politics
Business Brief: The difficult decision to sell a small business
Business Brief: Combating the gender wealth gap
Business Brief: Unjamming the bicycle supply chain
Business Brief: Esports for all
Business Brief: The four-day work week experiment
Business Brief: Going to the chapel in droves
Business Brief: Long odds for sports betting in Missouri
Business Brief: Solar demand heats up
Business Brief: What to make of maker spaces
Business Brief: A win for women's soccer and Kansas City's riverfront
Business Brief: Inside the Fed's inflation fight
Business Brief: Unpacking a clash over meat processing
Business Brief: Lights, camera, tax credits
Business Brief: When the cost of club sports keeps kids sidelined
Business Brief: The economic fallout of a baseball lockout
Business Brief: A push for equity in a brand-new industry
Business Brief: At the center of a child care crunch
Business Brief: Showing love with social enterprise
Business Brief: How the shows must go on
Business Brief: Visions of Napa Valley in Missouri
Market Dives: All eyes on indicators (Part 2)
Market Dives: All eyes on indicators (Part 1)
Market Dives: Digging into the transition from coal
Market Dives: It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas challenges
Market Dives: A window into the housing crunch
Market Dives: Gas tax brass tacks
Market Dives: What's in a name, image and likeness?
Speaking Startup: A tale of two types of retail
Speaking Startup: What's cooking for Black Restaurant Week?
Speaking Startup: Twain, tours and entrepreneurs
Speaking Startup: The chalet strategy
Speaking Startup: Plush pandemic picnics 'for the Gram'
Speaking Startup: Making green celebrating red, white and blue
Speaking Startup: What a jolt of US tech spending might mean in Missouri
Speaking Startup: Without branches, neobanks take root
Speaking Startup: A pandemic pivot from dogs to wine
Speaking Startup: Balancing books, business and basketball
Speaking Startup: The attack of the SPAC
Speaking Startup: There's no such thing as bad 'Shark Tank'
Speaking Startup: Social enterprises of all shapes and sizes
Speaking Startup: Parsing pandemic entrepreneurship data
Speaking Startup: Fun with non-fungible tokens
Speaking Startup: Sleep science and entrepreneurship
Speaking Startup: A fitness business making gains in a pandemic
Speaking Startup: Digging into Missouri's history of Black entrepreneurs
Speaking Startup: Accelerating diversity in St. Louis startups
Speaking Startup: The teledoctor is in
Speaking Startup: A pandemic pause and big restart for venture capital
Speaking Startup: A pandemic, a Netflix hit and a chess boom
Speaking Startup: Hunting and the rural entrepreneurs who depend on it
Speaking Startup: Putting St. Louis geospatial startups on the map
Speaking Startup: A cornucopia of small-scale entrepreneurship
Speaking Startup: In a small town on the brink, entrepreneurs get creative
Speaking Startup: Entrepreneurs on the election
Speaking Startup: Lessons learned launching an accelerator in a pandemic
Speaking Startup: The new business of old clothes
Speaking Startup: Cultivating 'the future of food' in St. Louis
Speaking Startup: Taking the plunge amid a pandemic
Speaking Startup: Solving the disparity in STEM fields
Speaking Startup: Addressing the gender funding gap
Speaking Startup: Teledentistry takes root
Speaking Startup: Accelerating entrepreneurs' pandemic pivots
Speaking Startup: Driven by a desire for diversity
Speaking Startup: Beware the coronavirus cyberattacks
Speaking Startup: What gives, millennial entrepreneurs?
Speaking Startup: Supporting Black businesses by starting with kids
Speaking Startup: Coworking in the coronavirus age
Speaking Startup: Gauging the pandemic's toll on women entrepreneurs
Speaking Startup: Entrepreneurs born of necessity
Speaking Startup: Tracking the decline of state entrepreneurship funding
Speaking Startup: The pandemic's toll on a tourism town
Speaking Startup: The big investor pitch moves online
Speaking Startup: Makers pitch in to produce PPE
Speaking Startup: How to track a pandemic without compromising privacy
Speaking Startup: Gauging entrepreneurs' concerns in a pandemic
Speaking Startup: Working from home and avoiding door handles
Speaking Startup: Growing girls in gaming
Speaking Startup: Big aspirations in small Missouri towns
Speaking Startup: A new face at a familiar KC entrepreneurship group
Speaking Startup: The ripple effects of a corporate mega-merger
Speaking Startup: Cutting through the hyperloop hype
Speaking Startup: How to 'shop local' this holiday season
Speaking Startup: The big significance of Small Business Saturday
Speaking Startup: A look at inclusion and Global Entrepreneurship Week
Speaking Startup: A new name in local news
Speaking Startup: A grassroots group of women helping women lead
Speaking Startup: The art of the elevator pitch
Speaking Startup: Cultivation Capital goes coastal
Speaking Startup: Revitalizing rural Missouri through entrepreneurship
Speaking Startup: Recruiting top tech talent 'Back2KC'
Speaking Startup: A new event to connect KC entrepreneurs to capital
Speaking Startup: The expansion of a Springfield accelerator
Speaking Startup: Assessing the state of VC in KC
Speaking Startup: A postcard from the businesses of a small-town square
Speaking Startup: The business of yoga ... with goats (August 1, 2019)
Speaking Startup - Bringing tech innovation to the farm
Pitchin: Episode 5 - The Future
Speaking Startup: Smart homes and wellness at work
Pitchin' - Episode 4 - The Pitch
Speaking Startup: Navigating Missouri's CBD industry (July 11, 2019)
Pitchin: Episode 3 - The Struggle
Pitchin': Episode 2 - The Team
Speaking Startup: Funding talk with the Women's Capital Connection (June 27, 2019)
Pitchin': Episode 1 - The Idea
Speaking Startup: Entrepreneurship education goes to prison (June 21, 2019)
Speaking Startup: Your business does what? (May 3, 2019)
Speaking Startup: The risky business of music festivals
Speaking Startup: Getting started in medical marijuana
Speaking Startup: Invisibly, AdSwapper and the changing world of ad tech
Speaking Startup: Health care's Digital Future
Speaking Startup: Trash to treasure (Feb. 15, 2019)
Speaking Startup: Surveying Missouri's startup landscape in 2019 (Feb. 1, 2019)
Outstate: Where Mexico turned when the bricks went away
Speaking Startup: Chatting coworking with Hatchery founder Amanda Quick
Speaking Startup: Cannabis entrepreneurs and Missouri's emerging market
Speaking Startup: Arlan Hamilton talks Backstage Capital; a seed business blooms in Kirksville
Speaking Startup: Lessons in language from an executive coach; coworking as a high school class
Speaking Startup: Techweek Kansas City debrief; Startup Weekend Columbia reflections
Speaking Startup: Podcast creator Amy Martin on the business of audio journalism
Speaking Startup: The wide-open world of AI
Speaking Startup: A method to the scooter madness
Speaking Startup: A craft beer boom and a 'fake meat' fight
Speaking Startup: Startup Week, car sharing, St. Louis venture capital, SXSW
Speaking Startup: Fintech regulations in focus; TripSushi founder on travel
Speaking Startup: Disrupting payday lending in KC; supporting entrepreneurs in Kirksville (July 27)
Speaking Startup: scooters, Techstars, Arch Grants
Speaking Startup: plastic straws, blockchain, Talent for Tomorrow, Digital Sandbox KC
Speaking Startup: St. Louis startup acquired; MowMagic cofounders share details of their launch
Speaking Startup: Amazon delivery, sales tax, KC Crew, True/False
Speaking Startup: AMC answers MoviePass; Zach Pettet on KC's new fintech accelerator (June 22, 2018)
Speaking Startup: Ripple Glass' rise, net neutrality's demise, AI in the office (June 14, 2018)