Tag: personal

How Hard Could It Be to Open a Cute Little General Store?

admin — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 11:00:44 +0000

Photo: Mark Peterson/Redux for New York Magazine

In 1847, the Springs General Store — a two-story Greek-revival farmhouse sitting near the East Hampton wetlands known as Pussy’s Pond — opened its doors. Just about 100 years later, Jackson Pollock moved into a barn down the road and began to trade paintings for his groceries.

I Travel Across Texas to Eat Tacos, But I Don’t Drive. Here’s How I Get It Done.

admin — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000

‘Another tool in my tool bag’: Digital artist uses AI to collage KC Streetcar stop

admin — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 22:37:34 +0000

Editor’s note: The following story was published by KCUR, Kansas City’s NPR member station, and a fellow member of the KC Media Collective.

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Aymann Ismail Is Nostalgic for Brazilian Burgers

admin — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 10:00:49 +0000
Illustration: Adam Mazur
Growing up within Jersey City’s Muslim community, Slate writer Aymann Ismail often felt that there was an “intentional veil between our world and everybody else’s.” Instead of regular Boy Scouts, his mosque offered Muslim Boy Scouts.
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Michael Anthony Has Spent Months on His Waldorf Salad

admin — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 12:00:07 +0000
Photo: Courtesy of Waldorf Astoria New York
This is going to be a challenge,” Michael Anthony says, pensively. He is a very pensive chef, and he’s standing inside his entirely new kitchen inside the also-almost-entirely-new Waldorf Astoria.
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Tiger 21 expands its invite-only peer network in KC as number of ultra-wealthy leaders rises

admin — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 18:29:33 +0000

A prestigious — and relatively new-to-Kansas City — resource for high-net-worth C-suite leaders and successful entrepreneurs and founders is expanding: Tiger 21, a premier peer membership organization for ultra-wealth creators and preservers, is adding a second group.
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Small Biz to Watch: Chick-In Waffle scales its cleverly KC-sauced identity, tapping Gen Z soul, God’s blessings

admin — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 15:10:38 +0000

Editor’s note: Startland News is showcasing five Kansas City small businesses this week through the newsroom’s first-ever Small Biz to Watch series, presented by Bank of America. The following highlights one of the 2025 honorees, curated by editors from Kansas City’s wide array of hard-working entrepreneurs and business owners.
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Small Biz to Watch: Someday Sunday opens the door to me-time without guilt (or toxins)

admin — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 17:47:10 +0000

Editor’s note: Startland News is showcasing five Kansas City small businesses this week through the newsroom’s first-ever Small Biz to Watch series, presented by Bank of America. The following highlights one of the 2025 honorees, curated by editors from Kansas City’s wide array of hard-working entrepreneurs and business owners.
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Independence day: Flipping from side-hustle to full-time requires grind behind glory

admin — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 17:57:38 +0000

Founders found freedom in the journey (but they’re grateful for what they didn’t know was ahead)

Jason Taylor walked away from big tech for good in January — leaving behind a dream résumé that included a long engineering career at Microsoft, then Google, for the freedom to pursue what had once been just a passion project: his own custom cabinetry company that soon would be seen on national TV.
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‘America the Entrepreneurial’: Can builders restore the promise of ‘the most courageous startup the world has ever seen?’

admin — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:29:26 +0000

Risk-takers set the story of the United States of America in motion, said Victor W. Hwang, lamenting a modern day reality where needless barriers too often work against entrepreneurs and young businesses.

An upcoming milestone birthday for the nation offers a focal point for restoring a coast-to-coast commitment to supporting builders and dreamers, he said, detailing the launch of “America the Entrepreneurial” — a civic campaign championing economic mobility through entrepreneurship.
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Fund Me, KC: Portrayals XR crowdfunds next step in building its immersive healing space

admin — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 15:44:03 +0000

Startland News is continuing its long-running “Fund Me, KC” series to highlight area entrepreneurs’ efforts to accelerate their businesses or lend a helping hand to others. This is an opportunity for business owners and innovators — like Tricia Keightley and her immersive healing platform — to share their crowdfunding stories and potentially gain backing from new supporters.
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Are Hamptons Restaurants Really So Bad or Just Misunderstood?

admin — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 11:00:18 +0000
Photo: Mark Peterson/Redux for New York Magazine
It’s a matter of very little controversy, on the far-eastern tip of this skinny island where everything has the rich potential for controversy, that no one goes to the Hamptons for the restaurants.
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Entrepreneur turns to Missouri elderberries to unlock treatment alternative, wellness brand

admin — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 12:09:14 +0000

Editor’s note: The following story was produced through a paid partnership with MOSourceLink, which boasts a mission to help entrepreneurs and small businesses across the state of Missouri grow and succeed by providing free, easy access to the help they need — when they need it.

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Big ideas for young people: How Equal Minded Café crowdfunded its coffee shop youth incubator’s next blend

admin — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 20:25:32 +0000

Dontavious Young is betting on the next generation. As founder of Equal Minded Café and the Big Ideas Foundation, Young is creating space for high school students to build businesses, find purpose, and take ownership of their futures.

“I want to be someone who kids remember their whole life,” Young said. “Almost everyone has an educator they remember who said one thing to them; one thing that changed everything.”
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TikTok Chefs Have Upstaged Their Clients

admin — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 11:00:30 +0000
Video: alexbakerstudios, sethboylan, wishbonekitchen
It’s a busy Wednesday morning at the Union Square Greenmarket, and Alex Baker and I are perusing produce. She has to meal-prep for the family she works for full time. Soon, she says, they’ll all be headed out East for the season.
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