Tag: advisor

Is New York About to Go Crazy for This Matcha Latte?

admin — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 11:05:00 +0000

Photo: Michael Carbone

The Hotta family has been growing and selling tea in Japan for five generations, a period of time that stretches across 180 years. For 55 of those years, Haruhide Morita has been tea master and special adviser.

How this founder’s hobby (plus a little trouble) became Oak Park retail incubator’s biggest success story

admin — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 23:13:58 +0000

“Big Chunky Blankets” — soft as a baby’s cheek and custom knitted in any color of the rainbow — folded into the foundation of what would become Maryann Nzioki Hult’s resilient, nearly pandemic-proof foray into entrepreneurship.

They put local Tabu Knits on the online map of must-have-items, and then became the seed of two Johnson County retail shops.

Nzioki Hult took up knitting as a 9-year-old at her mother’s side. She was top-notch by her teens and even learned tailoring.

Four ways to help employees build wealth and loyalty

admin — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 22:47:07 +0000

Editor’s note: The perspectives expressed in this commentary are the author’s alone. The following is a paid thought leadership piece from The Plaza Group at Morgan Stanley.

Your employees want to build their wealth and be better employees. Here’s how your equity program can help them get there.

KC startup founder pivots into pickleball haters’ biggest complaint, eliminating court noise

admin — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 11:01:19 +0000

SLN/CR is serving the sweet sound of silence to neighbors of outdoor pickleball courts, said Eliot Arnold, a serial entrepreneur-turned avid pickleball player who’s taking a swing at the source of critics’ irritation.

His Kansas City-based startup — pronounced “silencer” — offers a fabric-based noise mitigation system that uses nanotechnology to absorb nuisance noise, said Arnold, founder and CEO of SLN/CR.