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Boom or bubble? High Missouri farmland prices encourage investors, concern farmers

1 year 10 months ago

A lot can change in just under three years — a flip in control of the House of Representatives, four new iPhone models, a once-groundbreaking vaccine now offered alongside annual flu shots. For one fourth-generation farmer, almost everything has changed. “It was time,” Darvin Bentlage said, referring to his decision to significantly downsize his farming […]

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Emily Featherston

How a St. Louis nonprofit empowers entrepreneurs and shapes the city’s future

1 year 10 months ago
In the realm of economic development, the influence of strategic funding initiatives can be likened to the ripple effect caused by casting stones into a pond. Each grant, regardless of its size, has the potential to create waves of change across the community. However, the art lies in identifying and leveraging grants that, akin to denser stones, yield disproportionately larger ripples of impact. This endeavor, central to the mission of organizations like Arch Grants in St. Louis, involves a meticulous…
Jonathan Allen

Startup fundraising 101: What investors look for in each funding phase

1 year 10 months ago
The startup funding process can be a daunting, complex task for entrepreneurs. Every stage of startup funding requires different goals and strategies to ensure successful fundraising. Knowing when it's time to move to the next round of funding, what goals you should set for your business at each point in the process and how to best prepare is key to finding investors who believe in your vision. It can take a startup years to move through the funding stages, so it's wise to use that time to prepare…
Josh Snyder

Organization, accountability and counsel: Key factors for sellers’ focus in M&A transactions

1 year 10 months ago
When engaging in discussions over any merger or acquisition transaction, the parties will plan out and schedule most of the process around the anticipated timetables for due diligence. All too often, parties are exclusively planning out the due diligence of the target company. Obviously, the target company is the only entity changing hands, so its risk profile is paramount to the transaction. However, in today’s market, sellers have an increased interest in performing their own due diligence on…
David J. Kaufman and Nathan Viehl

St. Louis-based Edison Agrosciences invests in sunflowers to create domestic source of natural rubber

1 year 10 months ago
David Woodburn, CEO of St. Louis-based agtech startup Edison Agrosciences, vividly remembers the first time he saw a commercial sunflower field. It was years ago, during a road trip through South Dakota, and he recalls being struck by the flowers set against a bright blue sky. Yet despite how memorable the experience was, it would be many years before he’d come to understand the plant’s full power — one that is poised to solve one of the most vexing problems in the U.S. supply chain. “There…
Cheryl Baehr