Voices

Entrepreneurship is often celebrated and romanticized. There is no shortage of success stories, nor harrowing...

There’s a name that comes up in every succession conversation. Everyone in the room knows...

One of my favorite pieces of fundraising advice to offer nonprofits is my “To Don’t”...

In COMO Business Times’ previous iteration as a monthly magazine, this would be “press week,”...

All Rise. Look, I know journalists aren’t supposed to gush over their sources — we’re...

And here we are. As you read this, you are sharing an especially unique moment...

Early in 2024, the Wikimedia Foundation noticed something odd in its traffic logs. Bandwidth for...

During my 30-plus years working with entrepreneurs, I observed that the lack of deep customer...

I never expected my belief in the value of small nonprofits to be controversial —...

I’m stealing a bit of thunder from my boss, David Nivens, who waxes poetically about...

Quinten Messbarger

Taking Responsibility: The Buck Stops With the CEO/Founder

Entrepreneurship is often celebrated and romanticized. There is no shortage of success stories, nor harrowing tales of companies rising from the depths to conquer their ...
Kartik Bhavsar

Why High-Potential Employees Still Fail to Become Ready for Bigger Roles

There’s a name that comes up in every succession conversation. Everyone in the room knows who it is. She’s on the high-potential list. She’s been ...
Jaime Freidrichs

Sometimes What You Don’t Do Makes the Biggest Impact

One of my favorite pieces of fundraising advice to offer nonprofits is my “To Don’t” list. This is more than a reminder to avoid some ...
COMO Business Times Executive Editor Jodie Jackson Jr. and Missouri River Relief education coordinator Lara Cox pause for a quick selfie Wednesday, September 16, 2026, on the Missouri River at Cooper's Landing.
Jodie Jackson Jr.

ChatCBT: Oh, the Places We Have Been (Lately)

In COMO Business Times’ previous iteration as a monthly magazine, this would be “press week,” meaning the last couple of weeks leading up to this ...
Jodie Jackson Jr.

ChatCBT: Two Trains of Thought: A Murder and (Sales) Taxes

All Rise. Look, I know journalists aren’t supposed to gush over their sources — we’re charged with being objective and all that — but … ...
David Nivens

Three, Two, One…

And here we are. As you read this, you are sharing an especially unique moment in the history of COMO Magazine and COMO Business Times. ...
J.Scott Christianson

The Scraping Tax

Early in 2024, the Wikimedia Foundation noticed something odd in its traffic logs. Bandwidth for downloading images and media jumped 50 percent in a single ...
Quinten Messbarger

Entrepreneurs, Know Thy Customer

During my 30-plus years working with entrepreneurs, I observed that the lack of deep customer understanding was, by far, the primary reason for failure. Other ...
Jaime Freidrichs

In Defense of the Nice Little Nonprofit Down the Street

I never expected my belief in the value of small nonprofits to be controversial — until a couple months ago, when I expressed it on ...
Jodie Jackson Jr.
Jodie Jackson Jr.

ChatCBT: What do you smell when you hear ‘Clair de Lune’?

I’m stealing a bit of thunder from my boss, David Nivens, who waxes poetically about his musical memories in the publisher’s letter in this issue of COMO Business Times. This month our ...