This week on Mind Your Business, NKY!, LINK nky President and CEO Lacy Starling and Business Reporter Kenton Hornbeck discuss the OneNKY Center, a new building coming to Covington. They talk about where the building will be, what local organizations will call the space home and how much will be spent on the project. Read […]
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Inside LINK: I want to talk to you
Inside LINK is a regular column from our CEO, Lacy Starling. If you have questions you’d like Lacy to answer, email her at lacy@linknky.com. This spring, LINK business reporter Kenton Hornbeck and I launched a new podcast, Mind Your Business, NKY. We’ve had a blast the past few months, talking to folks from the business community […]
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LISTEN: Matching Student Passion with Business Ideas – Zac Strobl, NKU’s Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship
This week on Mind Your Business NKY!, LINK nky CEO Lacy Starling and Business Reporter Kenton Hornbeck discuss their first jobs back in the day…and what has led to a national decrease in the ‘kids’ working today. Kenton and Lacy dive into our new print story examining the reasons why the teenage labor rate has decreased […]
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LISTEN: Shaking up venture capital by valuing digital first with Brad Zapp, Connetic Ventures
This week on Mind Your Business, NKY!, LINK nky CEO Lacy Starling and Business Reporter Kenton Hornbeck discuss the Sims Furniture building in Covington and new plans for its development as a small business incubator office space. Learn more about what businesses are moving in, the history of the building dating back to 1929, and plans for the space moving […]
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Inside LINK: Good journalism isn’t free
Inside LINK is a regular column from our CEO, Lacy Starling. If you have questions you’d like Lacy to answer, email her at lacy@linknky.com. Today, everyone in the NKY Metro is receiving LINK’s primary election guide at a price of $40,000. That’s what it cost LINK to design, print and mail the election guide to every […]
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LISTEN: Identifying areas of maximum impact with Sean Parker, Main Street Ventures
This week on Mind Your Business, NKY!, LINK nky CEO Lacy Starling and Business Reporter Kenton Hornbeck discuss the new Margaritaville Resort at Newport on the Levee. Learn more about where the resort will be built, the origins of the term ‘Parrot Head’ and how the Newport skyline is changing overall. Also – Kenton doesn’t […]
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LISTEN: Boosting women’s confidence with Catrena Bowman, NKCAC / Inspired Fashion
This week, LINK nky CEO Lacy Starling and Business Reporter Kenton Hornbeck talk about the Women-owned business crawl this past Sunday. Created by Aviatra Accelerators, this event highlighted 40 business owners and was an open invitation for people to come out, shop, sip and learn more about Covington’s businesses like Grainwell, Peachy and Vintage, Arden […]
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LISTEN: Improving the CommonWEALTH of Kentucky with Brent Cooper, NKY Chamber of Commerce
This week, LINK nky CEO Lacy Starling and Business Reporter Kenton Hornbeck talk about the entrepreneurial ecosystem of NKY and how organizations like Blue North and Main Street Ventures are helping entrepreneurs thrive. Kenton discusses the differences between Leap funding and Launch funding, the diverse business landscape of NKY, and new businesses like Cooler Keg…which […]
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LISTEN: Stretching Your Dollars and Giving Back with Nancy Grayson, Horizon Community Funds
This week on Mind Your Own Business, NKY!, Business Reporter Kenton Hornbeck and LINK CEO Lacy Starling chat about Hotel Covington’s newest hotel addition – North – and the new Knowledge Bourbon Bar. Lacy dives in to the history of Hotel Covington’s founder, Donna Salyers, her sewing TV show in the 1980s and how her […]
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LISTEN: Embracing Riverfront Development with Will Weber, Southbank Partners
This week on Mind Your Own Business, NKY!, LINK nky CEO Lacy Starling and Business Reporter Kenton Hornbeck discuss new businesses coming to Newport on the Levee, Kenton’s dance skills, sports betting becoming legal in Kentucky…and, of course, Kenton’s tragic, brutal loss in our office NCAA Bracket. Then, Kenton chats with Will Weber, President and CEO […]