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Missouri Business Alert’s Speaking Startup podcast explores news and issues important to Missouri entrepreneurs. In this week’s episode: • 1:05 - LouFest, the St. Louis music festival, was unexpectedly cancelled three days before it was scheduled to begin. We talk about how it happened. • 4:07 - Missouri Gov. Mike Parson recently announced a special legislative session, and one of the priorities w...

Missouri Business Alert’s Speaking Startup podcast explores news and issues important to Missouri entrepreneurs. In this week’s episode: • 0:44 - On Tuesday, Missouri enacted a new regulating how plant-based meat alternatives and lab-grown meats are labeled. We discuss what that means to young businesses that make those products. • 2:45 - Over the last decade, the number of craft breweries operati...

Missouri Business Alert’s Speaking Startup podcast explores news and issues important to the state’s entrepreneurs. In this week’s episode: • 1:13 - The carsharing startup Getaround has been raising a lot of capital lately, and car makers are taking notice • 3:53 - Earlier this month the St. Louis Regional Chamber released their annual venture capital report for 2017, we talk about what that means...

Missouri Business Alert’s Speaking Startup podcast explores news and issues important to the state’s entrepreneurs. In this week’s episode: • 0:57 - This week changes were announced to the way fintech is regulated. What does this mean for Missouri? • 3:05 - Kansas City’s Innovation Partnership Program. We’ll take a look at the six startups who were accepted to the program that connects startups to...

Missouri Business Alert’s Speaking Startup podcast explores news and issues important to the state’s entrepreneurs. In this week’s episode: • 1:11 - Kansas City has a notorious payday lending culture. One Techstars startup is hoping to offer an alternative. • 3:20 - Gov. Mike Parson vetoed a bill this month that had support from Missouri tech companies. • 5:15 - Rightfully Sewn, a Kansas City star...

Missouri Business Alert’s Speaking Startup podcast explores news and issues important to the state’s entrepreneurs. In this week’s episode: • 1:00 - Techstars Kansas City released the lineup of their newest cohort, what does it mean for the startups who were selected? • 2:12 - Scooter startups are sweeping the nation! We'll look at one companies impact on Kansas City and St. Louis • 4:55 - Annika...

Missouri Business Alert’s Speaking Startup podcast explores news and issues important to the state’s entrepreneurs. In this week’s episode: • 1:00 - Missouri Technology Corporation wrapped up it's first fiscal year after major cuts in state funding. MTC is known for it's partnerships with startups, but that may have to change • 3:00 - Talent for Tomorrow is an initiative aimed at improving Missour...

Missouri Business Alert’s Speaking Startup podcast explores news and issues important to the state’s entrepreneurs. In this week’s episode: • 0:59 - Gov. Mike Parson signed Missouri’s $28.6 billion state budget last week. What does it mean for entrepreneurship? • 1:51 - President Trump wants to end the International Entrepreneur Rule. What does it mean for Missouri if the program disappears? • 4:1...

Missouri Business Alert’s Speaking Startup podcast explores news and issues important to the state’s entrepreneurs. In this week’s episode: • 1:00 - Amazon is now offering a program to help entrepreneurs create their own delivery services. • 2:43 - The U.S. Supreme Court voted to allow states to charge tax on online retail, now what? • 5:10 - KC Crew, a business that organizes adult sports leagues...

Missouri Business Alert’s Speaking Startup podcast explores news and issues important to the state’s entrepreneurs. In this week’s episode: • 0:53 - How Kansas City's AMC Theatres responded to the challenge posed by the upstart MoviePass • 4:30 - What a new World Health Organization classification could mean to the burgeoning esports industry • 8:25 - Two efforts announced this week to fund Kansas...

Missouri Business Alert’s Speaking Startup podcast explores news and issues important to the state’s entrepreneurs. This week’s episode covers: • 0:39 - Gov. Mike Parson meeting Missouri businesses • 5:04 - Net neutrality's repeal and its effect on local startups • 8:24 - Answers founder David Karandish's new AI startup •10:45 - Reporter Kristoffer Tigue's trip to Kansas City to learn about Ripple...