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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...

When local business leader Dave Griggs watches the Hominy Branch Creek flow past The Links, he may be seeing an apt metaphor for what’s happening to Columbia’s once-vaunted...

There are jerks in every business. There are some bankers who are jerks. There are some teachers who are jerks. There are some doctors who are jerks. There...

How often do we speak of a specific time and place when despair suddenly becomes hope? When discouraging times are rapidly followed by great triumph? I see this...

Although we’ve all heard of Intel, Ben & Jerry’s and FedEx, you may not know that they were all started with the help of an SBA-guaranteed loan from...

High-tech cards and phones could change the way you spend and manage your money New technologies are constantly adding speed, convenience and flexibility to practically everything we do—including...

Columbia’s newest banking center is a branch of one of the state’s oldest banks, but you wouldn’t know that by reading the sign that just went up near...