Young agency bottles digital savvy for startup where co-founder brewed booch

Sean Calderon and Zach Schneller, Oak Media; and Lisa Bledsoe, Tea-Biotics Kombucha

From booch bottler to boss, Zack Schneller isn’t forgetting his Tea-Biotics roots as he embarks on his own startup journey — which has him helping his former employer with an eCommerce emergence and social media scale up.  “We did a free trial for them, which happened to fall on National Kombucha Day,” Schneller, co-founder of Oak…

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‘No words for that moment’ when winning pitch announced, says student competitor

Editor’s note: The following is a student-written article written by one of 357 interns in CommunityAmerica Credit Union’s recent virtual innovation internship program. Sydney Newton is an incoming junior at Shawnee Mission East High School. CommunityAmerica is a financial partner of STARTLAND, the parent organization of Startland News. As Chloe Chaffin pitched her team’s idea…

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