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As Bob Brazell ascended to become a chef and owner of St. Louis restaurants, he found it difficult to allow his employees to carry some of the weight on his shoulders.

Jeff Stevens and his wife, Genevieve Barlow, launched WellBeing Brewing Company, a non-alcoholic craft brewer in St. Louis, to help give non-drinkers attractive options at get-togethers.

Fellow St. Louisans Dan Schaefer and Pat Barron's company, Native Pet, does more than $2 million annually in sales, all of it online.

Startup owners and experts on entrepreneurship answer what their biggest mistake was and what was learned afterward.

In 2019, Robyn Wagner made the shift from helping companies with their e-commerce sales to selling her own product through her own company, Insta-Meal, based in Kansas City.

A mentor gave Chris Thowe and Kyle Fitzgerald advice that would lead to their most successful product: the Balance the Superfood Shot.

We find out from industry players how they’re coping, what they’re doing and what they’ve learned so far.

St. Louis-based Tiny Superheroes sent out 35,000 capes to sick and disabled children worldwide in 2019, more than the total number sent by the company in the previous four years. Robyn Rosenberger, founder of the social enterprise that provides superhero capes to children with illnesses or disabilities, said her company has been successful and continues to grow. Yet it began ...

Couch cushions. Brandin Vaughn can trace his entrepreneurial career to a couple of couch cushions. The St. Louis native said his family was not well-off while he was growing up, so when his 10-year-old self found a couch in an alley, he decided to take it home and sew new cushions made from an old coat. “What that did for ...

Charlie Backer remembers “chugging” bottles of Tobasco with his brother when he was just 8 years old. So it’s no surprise that, as an adult, Backer has founded a fast-growing line of hot sauces under the brand Hot Charlie’s Hot Sauce. A former payroll and human resources consultant, Backer said his product line was born a few years ago when ...