Posts made in January, 2014

A Real Toy Story: St. Louis University Entrepreneur Lachlan Johnson

Posted by on Jan 30, 2014 in Featured Stories, Innovation Tuesday | 0 comments

Click here to hear KMOX Radio’s Charlie Brennan’s 2/4/2014  interview with Lachlan Johnson Seven years ago, Lachlan Johnson, along with her older sister and younger brother, built a successful business by creating a combination toy and fashion accessory for kids that is now carried online, and in hundreds of retail stores across the country.  Johnson sold that business last year, and now, she and her brother are planning to create their own toy company, one that will offer toys to pre-teens, but will target an older demographic as well. That’s pretty ambitious stuff for just...

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Athlete Protection, in a Nutshell

Posted by on Jan 24, 2014 in Featured Stories, Innovation Tuesday | 0 comments

Click here to hear Jeremiah Raber’s interview on KMOX Radio in St. Louis  In late December of 2013, Connor Knapp, a promising goaltender defending the nets for a minor league affiliate of the National Hockey League’s Buffalo Sabres, tweeted a photo that left sports fans and casual observers squirming in their seats. The hockey player had shared a picture of a piece of his equipment that had been shattered by the impact of a flying puck.  It was the piece of equipment that protects a male athlete’s most vulnerable and sensitive area – and we’re not talking about his ego. Whereas some...

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Eateria Delivers Full Menu Approach to Restaurant Marketing

Posted by on Jan 17, 2014 in Featured Stories, Innovation Tuesday | 0 comments

Click here to listen to Ola Ayeni’s interview with KMOX Radio’s Charlie Brennan on 1/21/2014 If you’ve ever attempted to open a restaurant, or know anyone who has, you know it’s not for the faint of heart. “Depending on the source, between 50 and 90 percent of restaurants fail in the first three years, and the reasons why can fill a book,” says St. Louis Magazine Restaurant critic George Mahe, who lists “poor marketing and advertising” as one of the chief reasons for failure. It’s not that budding restaurateurs don’t WANT to be good marketers.  It’s usually the case that the...

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St. Louis Startup Leaders Praise Candy Lab’s Slice of stl250 Initiative

Posted by on Jan 10, 2014 in Featured Stories, Innovation Tuesday | 0 comments

Click here to listen to stl250’s Erin Budde and Andrew Couch and Gilda Campos of Candy Lab interviewed Jan 14 by KMOX’s Charlie Brennan St. Louis celebrates its 250th anniversary with a yearlong civic party in 2014, and to help tell the St. Louis story – past, present and future — the city is turning to an innovative startup company that moved here from California just eight months ago. Leaders within the growing St. Louis startup movement say the alliance is just the sort of thing that’s needed to build the blossoming movement’s momentum. The startup company is Candy Lab,...

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