{"id":9077,"date":"2019-07-15T15:23:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T20:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=9077"},"modified":"2019-10-14T09:08:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T14:08:31","slug":"newspress-now-center-for-entrepreneurship-celebrates-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2019\/07\/15\/newspress-now-center-for-entrepreneurship-celebrates-five-years\/","title":{"rendered":"NewsPress NOW: Center for Entrepreneurship celebrates five years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"subscriber-preview\">\n<div style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/newspressnow.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/7\/a9\/7a9659b0-a423-11e9-bdd1-577e0781e5f0\/5d27ab612238e.image.jpg?resize=1200%2C675\" alt=\"store owner at computer with customer\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justin Myers, owner of Heartland Paint, helps a customer. Myers bought the paint store in 2015 with support from the Center for Entrepreneurship.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em><span id=\"author-popup-03f6d8fa-1433-11e9-a6b8-5cb9017b8d1c-asset-69562dda-a412-11e9-bff3-e318a0017fef\" class=\"tnt-byline asset-byline\" title=\"\" data-original-title=\"\">By Jessica Kopp News-Press NOW, <\/span>Jul 13, 2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Connecting budding entrepreneurs and the resources to own a business has been the mission of Missouri Western State University\u2019s Center for Entrepreneurship for the last five years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-preview\">\n<p>The center, housed in the Craig School of Business, was founded by Annette Weeks and offers consultations for current business owners, people wanting to start a business and those looking to buy an existing business.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>\u201cOver 580 entrepreneurs have come through the center here in those five years,\u201d Weeks said. \u201cWe have over 58 businesses that we\u2019ve helped start. It\u2019s just a joy to drive around town or walk around town and see the different ones that\u2019s been started through the Center for Entrepreneurship.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more and see the video version of this story at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newspressnow.com\/news\/local_news\/center-for-entrepreneurship-celebrates-five-years\/article_69562dda-a412-11e9-bff3-e318a0017fef.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">newspressnow.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jessica Kopp News-Press NOW, Jul 13, 2019 Connecting budding entrepreneurs and the resources to own a business has been the mission of Missouri Western State University\u2019s Center for Entrepreneurship for the last five years. The center, housed in the Craig School of Business, was founded by Annette Weeks and offers consultations for current business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[71,970],"tags":[346],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9077"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9081,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9077\/revisions\/9081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}