Cincinnati-based entrepreneur Harrison Baer aims to provide people with an opportunity to break up the monotony of their everyday lives. His new business, Mystery Machine, gives people a low-stakes way to gamify something as routine as purchasing a drink from a vending machine. Its colorful purple and blue branding is reminiscent of the colorfully iconic […]
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Women entrepreneurs find a home at Aviatra with new incubator
Since Aviatra unveiled its new incubator last November, CEO Jill Morenz has said that the enhanced space has bolstered the accelerator’s curriculum offerings while providing program participants with a more collaborative environment to pursue their entrepreneurial ambitions. Aviatra, a Covington-based entrepreneurial accelerator, provides women entrepreneurs in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky with resources, mentorship and community […]
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Four NKY startups awarded grants from Main Street Ventures to fuel growth
Four Northern Kentucky companies were awarded grants from Main Street Ventures, a Cincinnati-based organization that supports entrepreneurs. The organization has awarded a total of $172,098 in grants to 13 small businesses, facilitating their growth and expansion throughout Greater Cincinnati. Since 2018, the organization has distributed over $4.5 million in equity-free funding to local startups and […]
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Inside LINK: A new leader for LINK 2.0
I get mad when one of our reporters buries the lede, putting important information too far down in the story, so I’ll just come out and say it up top: I’m leaving LINK nky at the end of this year. Now that the band-aid is off, let me back up a bit. Being the founding […]
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Celia Jo’s serves barbecue with a purpose
Eric Batke always wanted his career to positively impact people. Batke worked as a video editor in his previous line of work — something he sincerely enjoyed but ultimately grew tired of. “I honestly just wanted to have a simpler world impact,” he told LINK nky. “Making videos for people was cool, but I feel […]
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Aviatra workshop helps entrepreneurs break into wholesale
Aviatra Accelerators has launched a new workshop series in Covington aimed at helping women entrepreneurs in product-based and food-and-beverage businesses learn how to navigate the wholesale market. The four-part Wholesale Ready Workshop Series will take place on Mondays in July at Aviatra’s incubator space at 112 W. Pike St. Each session will feature panel discussions […]
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Community Voices: How do I go from overwhelmed to out of office?
This Community Voices column on AI is written by Dawn Winterhalter Parks, the director of BizAccessHub at Northern Kentucky University. Ever grown tomatoes? They ripen slowly, then all at once. One day, you’re checking every plant for a sign of red. The next, you’ve got 40 pounds of fruit, and no idea what to do with all […]
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NKU’s INKUBATOR program guides students from side hustles to startups
Northern Kentucky University Haile College of Business entrepreneurship student John Wharton is leveraging his background in lawn care and support from The INKUBATOR accelerator program to build a technology startup. As a teenager growing up in Boone County, Wharton would mow his neighbors’ lawns on the side, leading him to start his own lawn care […]
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State lawmakers briefed on NKY’s entrepreneurial, tourism ecosystems
Dozens of Kentucky lawmakers focused on entrepreneurship and tourism at a special committee meeting on June 18 in Covington, where local economic leaders updated the legislators on the resources these industries require to continue growing. Dave Knox, executive director of Blue North, Northern Kentucky’s primary entrepreneurial support organization and advocacy group, briefed the committee on […]
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Newport expands Tesla police fleet with four more vehicles
The city of Newport continues to add new vehicles to its Tesla pilot program for the police department. The Newport Police Department first added three Tesla Model 3 vehicles in December 2023 and then requested two more in November 2024 after the success of the first three. In January, Newport requested the Tesla Model Y […]