Columbia Business Times Archive

Business by day, Rock after dark Barkelew’s musical life: Business whiz is back in the band Every Tuesday after work, the members of rock and blues cover band...

Downtown coffee shop/entertainment venue turns 5 The Cherry Street Artisan, one of Columbia’s favorite spots for java and jazz, is celebrating a huge milestone this weekend with its...

Time and again the lobbyists for special-interest groups tell the legislature that if only their particular industry could be granted an exemption from state taxes that it would...

Maybe I should wait to write this column after the second Sunday of July. The annual reunion for the descendants of Frank and Effie Schuster will have occurred....

I really did not intend for a pun to appear in this column. But we’ve been using the phrase “keeping utilities current” over the last few weeks as...

With computer labs so confining and Ellis Library lulling people to sleep, University of Missouri-Columbia students had been looking for a study sanctuary with adequate meeting space and...

After graduating from the University of Missouri-Columbia and setting up a company to sell used cell phones, Brian Laoruangroch wanted to find minority partners and workers he could...

Many reviewers have concluded that the iPhone is not a business tool, classifying it as nothing more than a fancy toy for people with deep pockets. Being an...

Student entrepreneurs trade schoolbooks for bookkeepers Adam Guy and Brian Laoruangroch were too eager to start their businesses to wait until they’d graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia....

Think of bank décor as a drab assortment of framed watercolor landscapes positioned on beige walls behind stiff armchairs? Think again. At First National Bank, generous displays of...