St. Louis Entrepreneur Offers Tasteful Tours of The Hill
Click here to hear Pete Manzo on KMOX Radio’s Charlie Brennan Show For more information and tickets go to the Eat Saint Louis website For more than forty years, Manzo’s, an Italian market located at the corner of Devonshire and Macklind avenues in South St. Louis, stood as a local success story – an iconic home-grown business founded by Sicilian immigrants and kept alive by their children. Manzo’s thrived for decades as a St. Louis institution, selling Italian sausage, cheese, wine and other delicacies to local restaurants and individuals. A family tragedy changed things in 2008, and...
Read MoreSix Questions for Ginger Imster of Arch Grants
Click here on Tuesday, September 30 at 10:50 am Central to hear Ginger Imster on KMOX Radio’s Charlie Brennan Show A full house is expected on the evening of October 11, as supporters of the St. Louis Arch Grants program meet in the ballroom of the Hyatt Regency Hotel in downtown St. Louis for the second Arch Grants gala. It will be a night to celebrate successes, and to look ahead to the future of the nonprofit organization, which offers $50,000 grants to startup businesses in exchange for moving their businesses to St. Louis for at least a year. We had a some questions about Arch...
Read MoreSt. Louis Bat Maker Wants Ballplayers to a Get a Grip (And Reduce Injuries)
Click here to hear Grady Phelan’s interview with KMOX Radio’s Charlie Brennan Major League Baseball players are well known creatures of habit. Babe Ruth and Willie Mays always stepped on second base as they trotted off the field for the dugout. Before batting, Hall of Fame third baseman Wade Boggs would scrawl the Hebrew symbol chai into the dirt, even though he isn’t Jewish. Former Cardinal and current Cincinnati Reds player Skip Schumaker is renowned for stepping out of the batter’s box and compulsively adjusting his batting gloves before each pitch. So to ask a major...
Read MoreKeeping Ahead of Concussions With a St. Louis Startup
Click here to hear Ben Harvatine’s interview with KMOX Radio’s Charlie Brennan Ben Harvatine remembers well the incident that prompted him to develop a device aimed at detecting potential concussions in young athletes. At the time of the episode, however, Harvatine wasn’t clearly remembering much of anything at all. It happened during a wrestling practice, when Harvatine was a student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2010. “I don’t know the moment that I got my actual concussion,” said Harvatine, in a promotional video for Jolt Sensor. “Between dehydration, a boiling...
Read MoreSt. Louis Energy Startup Gains a Measure of Success
Click here to hear MeterGenius co-founder Ty Benefiel on KMOX Radio’s Charlie Brennan Show For many, the searing heat that descended upon the Midwest in late August was bad enough. In September, insult will be added to injury when millions of homeowners find the byproduct — sky-high electric bills — in their mailboxes. While St. Louis-based startup MeterGenius can’t do much about the whims of Mother Nature, the company says it can help consumers nibble away at those soaring electric costs. It’s the cornerstone of its business. MeterGenius, founded in 2013 by a group of...
Read MoreIt Takes Three to Tango: St. Louis Startup Is Helping Craft Future of In-Store Shopping
Click here to hear Matthew Kulig’s August 26 interview on KMOX Radio’s Charlie Brennan Show Any entrepreneur with an idea that’s aimed at saving a consumer some time or money, or improving his customer experience, will verify this notion: getting your product or service in front of a large, well-established, well-respected, well-known entity is huge. It’s a “golden moment” that every innovative startup craves. For St. Louis based startup aisle411, one of those moments came in 2011, when the local company – which has built a shopping app that can be used to find items in retail...
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