It wasn’t an entrepreneurship class that inspired Noah Temple to start his coffee and tea social enterprise, he shares; it was his seventh grade history class. Noah – now a senior at Ladue Horton Watkins High School in St. Louis – launched Junior Java Coffee in the fall of 2019...
With two decades of experience in the automotive industry, Kevin Wyas noticed consumers needed an easy and cost-effective way to program their vehicles. So in early 2020, the Springfield, Missouri, entrepreneur launched ECRI, a wireless vehicle calibration device that is compatible with multiple vehicles. The patent-pending technology allows the owner...
Byron Brooks received his first video camera when he was 14 and hasn’t looked back, he says, starting his own video production business before he even finished high school. The Harrisonville, Missouri, native – who launched Midwestern Ox Productions in January 2022, just months before he graduated – was initially...
The Rosier family has farmed on the same land in Holt County, Missouri, for nearly a century, Dylan Rosier shares, and now he and his brothers are doing their part to make sure the farm is still thriving for the fifth generation. Starting with Dylan’s great-grandfather in the 1930s, the Rosiers...
What started as a side hustle to pay for daycare has turned into a profitable sign-making, home decor and apparel business for Ashley Raetz. The central Missouri entrepreneur started RiOak Design – named after her two daughters, Riley and Oaklee – 12 years ago at her kitchen table and has...
Shirley Washington’s middle-of-the-night inspiration – mixed with a splash of assistance from SCORE St. Louis – has led to a recipe for success for her skewer-serving business. Shirley Washington of Sway-Oh The St. Louis-based entrepreneur launched Sway-Oh and its debut product line – Skewer Food Server – in 2019 after...
