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About five years ago, Sarah Schlafly was in search of a protein source she could feel good about — one that was less taxing on the environment to produce than meat and better for her body. She soon landed on insect protein. More specifically, crickets. “The more research I did, the more I learned about how people around the world ...

Dottie Burkemper’s cats were driving her crazy back in 2014. Burkemper, who is in her 90s, couldn’t keep her feline companions from stealing her dentures and hiding them behind her furniture at her home in south St. Louis County. So, she reached out to her friend’s son, Mike Saigh, who had been an inventor for 40 years as well as ...

L ike many entrepreneurs, Natasha Kirsch started her business in response to a problem. Kirsch is the founder and executive director of the Kansas City-based nonprofit group Empowering the Parent to Empower the Child, also known as EPEC. The organization operates The Grooming Project, a pilot program with a mission of helping parents break the cycle of poverty for their ...

Startups in Missouri are changing the way people grow crops, do business, find cures for diseases and play. Many of its flourishing new businesses and entrepreneurs owe their success to incubators: organizations that nurture startups by providing advice, physical space and links to capital, government resources and economic-development programs. At least three dozen incubators can be found throughout Missouri, while ...

About four years ago, Lisa Tamayo and her family were persistently having issues tracking their pets. The only way they would learn a battery had gone dead on a collar connected to an invisible fence was when their golden retriever, Zuko, again started jumping on the fence at their home in Santa Rosa, California. And as for the cat, MoMo, ...

Startup Missouri will host its first Startup Missouri Expo from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 30 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel St. Louis-Chesterfield. This trade show is designed to connect new entrepreneurs and startup businesses with resources to help them develop, manage, maintain and improve their businesses. Register for Startup Expo The Startup Expo is a new venture ...

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We’ve all been there. You finish up a great trip, and as you arrive at the airport the realization hits: You forgot to pick up a gift for that special someone. Panic sets in, and your wallet cries at the thought of buying an airport-priced T-shirt or dashboard bobblehead made in China. Tiffany King and Suzanne Southard know that struggle ...

Technology is everywhere, and it often seems as though every entrepreneur wants to incorporate the latest gadget, platform or app into their operations. But finding the best ways to employ all of this modern-day wizardry to benefit their own operations remains a tricky challenge for many startups. A lot of companies offer solutions, but which ones are really bending the ...

Story by Scott Lauck At a recent conference on the promises and perils of blockchain, a cartoon by artist Tom Fishburne flashed up on the screen. A business owner asks an employee, “Where should we focus this year?” “’Blockchain,’” the employee responds. “It will change everything. Everybody is talking about it. The potential applications are endless. We don’t want to ...

Last spring, Karl Stiefvater received a package from a 3D-printing service bureau and opened it with care. Inside was a tiny transparent bubble no wider than a pencil eraser. It encased three human figurines the size of gnats. To view them, Stiefvater had to use a magnifying glass. “They were smaller than I’d expected,” he said. “But it was a ...