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Fast-growth “cheetah” firms serve as model for business success

While entrepreneurship is not new, efforts to study the dynamics of this critically important sector…

George Pfenenger Entrepreneur of the Year

Six innovators win Entrepreneurial Excellence Awards

Young Entrepreneur of the Year
–Adam Guy
Next Year’s Entrepreneur
–Kevin Keegan
Serial Entrepreneurs of the Year
–Brock and Brant Bukowski
Best Marketers of the Year
–Paul Sturtz & David Wilson
Career Achievement in Entrepreneurship
–Nick Peckham

State, local agencies using new funding source for high-tech companies

      JEFFERSON CITY – The path to commercialization of Missouri research has just gotten clearer. …

Customer Service: Delivering the Brand Experience: What the customer says about you is always right

“Good ideas do not just circulate information. They penetrate the public mind with desire and…

Trendspotters foresee more spending on home environs

Gas is topping $3 a gallon. The value of the dollar is downright depressing. And…

Columbia Community Garden Coalition helps groups start gardens

There’s almost nothing more satisfying than a big basket overflowing with juicy red tomatoes, crispy…

Competing Country Clubs: CCMO, CCC adapt to Old Hawthorne’s arrival

Last fall, Shelter Insurance agent Mike Messer teed up a deal with Bryan Ninichuck by treating him to a round of golf at Columbia Country Club. Over the four-hour round, they hashed out a plan for insuring Ninichuck’s business, Winegate Environmental Pest Management. The outing made Ninichuck wonder whether a country club membership could help his own business.

Columbia housing values declining, according to federal designation

       The Columbia metropolitan area has been designated a declining real estate market by the federal…

Specialist in electronic data litigation opens law office

      Craig Chval, who formed The Chval Law Group, P.C. with his brother, Keith, in…

City’s fifth Rotary Club formalized

      Columbia Sunrise Southwest Rotary Club, which has been gathering informally for six months, will…

Regular gas prices begin topping $3, trending upward

      The price of regular gasoline has started creeping above $3 per gallon in Columbia,…

Callaway Bank’s legacy in limbo

Callaway Bank President Bruce Harris knew there would be concerns about the bank’s future and worries about him once word got around that he had been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, with no heir apparent.