Entrepreneurs are defined as risk-takers. They are people who take a business idea and run with it, hoping their endeavor is commercial viable and one which can be sustained.
Earlier this month, business leaders and St. Louis City and County officials a new effort to support entrepreneurs and startup companies in the St. Louis region. The goal is to raise $100 million over the next five years.
In the second of two shows devoted to St. Louis鈥� startup and entrepreneurial scene, host Don Marsh talked with entrepreneurs about their business and how they got started.
His guests included:
- Tim Hayden, Director of the at Saint Louis University鈥檚 John Cook School of Business
- Khalia Collier, owner and general manager of the , a semiprofessional women鈥檚 basketball team which plays its games at UMSL
- Katie Lee, founder of Katie鈥檚 Pizzeria and owner and founder of , a restaurant she plans to open in September and which was partially funded through the crowd-founding website, Kickstarter.
- Paul Olson, president and co-founder of ., a medical technology and life sciences startup in St. Louis
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