Startup Missouri Information to fuel Missouri business startups

When starting a business and choosing your structure, you might hear about S-Corps. While there are benefits to selecting an S-Corp tax status, there are also disadvantages.

There are a million pieces of advice for startups when it comes to hiring the right kind of people. Yet, none of it matters if you aren’t hiring for the right positions to begin with. Before you start bringing employees on board, you may want to ask what roles your new venture needs to fill first.

The idea behind the company, Clear Blue Smiles, was that it would marry the best of the traditional practice and the convenience of new technology that allows people to fix their smiles without making regular visits to see an orthodontist.

An initiative called Main Street STL hopes to bring together small businesses in 15 counties on both sides of the Mississippi River to encourage "inclusive growth" that its backers say would increase opportunities and reduce income, health and wealth disparities.

For those who run theaters, concert halls and other platforms for performance, the SVOG has been a $16 billion pool of life-saving cash designed to help the arts world cope with new fiscal realities as it struggles to reopen to a wary public.

Michael Barrera recently returned to Kansas City from Florida to serve as district director for the U.S. Small Business Administration. In that role, he works to connect local business owners with the federal agency’s services at a critical moment, as people try to recover from the economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

When starting a new business, entrepreneurs have dozens of options. Here's a look at good and bad sides of the most common entities.

Fashion industry stalwarts John Elmuccio and Jon Lewis founded Evolution St. Louis, a 3D knitting company launched in February 2020, with hopes that it can play a key role in the revitalization of the local fashion industry.

Decorated in wicker and second-hand items, the establishment’s furnishings evoke the same ethos as its products, which aim to avoid plastics and packaging in favor of reusable or natural materials. In a modern universe burdened by glitzy plastics, a clean, earthy array of simple wood and glass dominates here.

Gabriela Ramírez-Arellano has dedicated her life to helping local people of color become successful entrepreneurs. In January, she joined the Cortex Innovation Community as the director of entrepreneurship and executive director of the Center for Emerging Technologies, Missouri’s largest and oldest innovation center.