October 2017

For more information, contact: Fran Patrick, Director of Account Services [email protected]   Business Times Interactive, formerly the digital marketing division of The Business Times Company, is now a full-service, standalone advertising agency: Columbia Marketing Group. CMG is a response to the demand we’ve seen for comprehensive marketing services specifically built for Mid-Missouri businesses. By working […]

I grew up in Orange, California, a city that decided to forgo the traditional town square in favor of a circle. The Orange Circle is a two-lane roundabout surrounding a park and a fountain that was funded, I kid you not, back in 1886 through local bake sales. Every teenager in town learned to drive

Four Columbia startups took the stage at The Blue Note on Wednesday night, stepping into Columbia’s very own entrepreneurial “Shark Tank.” The businesses were inaugural competitors in the Missouri Tech Challenge, a pitch competition loosely based on the ABC reality show “Shark Tank.” The startups — Ukatsu, AdSwapper, Testery, and Stor — pitched their businesses