Luke Babich of Clever Real Estate and Lisa Hu from Lux and Nyx Entrepreneurship is a pillar of Lisa Hu and Luke Babich ’s marriage, but it’s not because they are in business together. Instead, Hu and Babich run separate St. Louis-based startups. Hu is founder of handbag company Lux and Nyx while Babich is CEO of real estate technology startup Clever Real Estate. That’s a dynamic that brings many of the same benefits and opportunities as couples that are business owners together, but also creates its own unique wrinkle for Babich and Hu. While couples that run a single business together share in the ups and downs of that company, Babich and Hu said they benefit from each having dealt with challenges of running a business, but not necessarily experiencing them at the same time, which Babich said means “the stress is not coinciding.” “You have these ups and downs so needing one person to pull the other person out of a rut is helpful,” Hu said. “That understanding is not easy to get from people that haven’t gone through it.” While they don’t run the same company, Babich and Hu, who married last year, spend a lot […]