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St. Louis City, County Join Forces To Support Entrepreneurs
BY: Mark Sutherland
An ambitious five-year plan, announced last week by entrepreneurial, civic and business leaders is calling for broad, public/private support of entrepreneurship in St. Louis through a $100 million fund. Its purpose is to fund new ventures and direct money to established venture capital and angel investment groups. The fund also will advance startup support systems [...]
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Hot Shot Email: Use your Domain Name
BY: Kriti Vichare
What does your company email address say about you? Nothing screams “newbie” as a free domain email address. And nothing dates you as much as a Hotmail or Yahoo! email address, especially if you are a technology-focused startup company. This is an #entrepreneurfail that can easily be avoided. It is important that as you launch [...]
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America’s Best Kept Tech Secret Revealed
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By Anthony Pompliano In January 2012, I moved back to Raleigh, NC after college and military service. The quaint community I had left was gone and was replaced by a region bursting at the seams and ready to explode. This blessing in disguise helped me uncover one of the best-kept secrets in America. The Triangle [...]
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Chicago-based startup, Kumbuya, accelerates to Los Angeles with Warner Bros.
BY: Sonali Basak
When a media giant and a social commerce startup get together, what you get is innovation. Two companies are looking to evolve the media landscape to make it far more interactive. Warner Bros. “Media Camp” is a 12-week accelerator program that pairs media executives with startups. Chicago-based startup Kumbuya, based in Chicago incubator 1871, has [...]
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How to Test the Viability of a Tech Product
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The light bulb went off. You had a groundbreaking idea for a tech product; you developed a prototype and are entering the testing phase. But how do you determine if your product is truly viable in the marketplace? They say the devil is in the details. Many ideas — though they appear great on the [...]
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Michele Clark: Innovation in Music
BY: Sonali Basak
Michele Clark has been a music entrepreneur for more than 25 years. She began her career as a radio promoter in 1988. Her own event – “The Sunset Sessions” – is now in it’s 17th year. She has built a career around finding new artists and helping them become superstars. The 20th Sunset Session [...]
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New Startup Breather Launches Today; Closes $1.5 Million Seed Round
BY: Caryn Tomer
Do you ever just need to take a breath? Find a quiet space, especially when you’re traveling, to just relax, get some work done, or take a breather? That’s what Julien Smith, founder, CEO and best-selling author is looking to provide for you with his new startup launching today at Le Web London. It’s called [...]
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SMCSTL Shared Valuable Business Insight At Its Social Media Workshop
BY: Caryn Tomer
How many times have you heard that social media for business is all about being transparent, empowering individuals, being adaptable, and so on? While these are all nice traits to have in business, it doesn’t begin to tell you how to accomplish those traits. This is just one idea that was discussed last Friday when [...]
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Game Developers: Intellectual Property Is All You’ve Got, So Make Sure You Get It
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A video game is not a conventional product. If you are a video game developer, you aren’t selling manufactured goods. Increasingly, you aren’t even selling physical media. What we “own” in our products is almost entirely intellectual property, and what we “sell” are licenses to use it. However, there is a peculiar conundrum in the [...]
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Personify Launching Mac Version; Makes The Online Meeting Experience More Engaging
BY: Caryn Tomer
We’ve all been on those conference calls, where a sales person tries to pitch us on the next great product that we just have to have to run our business. They typically involve a webinar of some type, where the individual is either sharing their screen or walking you through a PowerPoint presentation. Be honest: [...]
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Ender’s Startup? Building Greatness In Entrepreneur Communities
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In Ender’s Game with the survival of humanity on the line, the human race has decided to raise super soldiers from birth in the pursuit of nurturing the perfect leader. The author goes to extremes to show how much could be done to intentionally cultivate human greatness to the likes of Leonardo Da Vinci or [...]
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Meet Healthfundr: Equity-Based Crowdfunding For Health Startups
BY: Caryn Tomer
When Marshall McLuhan said that the medium is the message in the 1960s, it’s amazing to think about how much that idea still applies in present culture. What he meant is that new forms of media (technology) transform our experience and is ultimately more important than the content that is shared. In other words, technology [...]
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City Of Houston’s Open Innovation Hackathon
BY: Michelle Lenzen
HOUSTON, TEXAS — Something revolutionary happened this weekend: the City of Houston stopped complaining about their problems. From traffic, parking and bike transportation issues to regulations and confusing online databases, city officials and citizens came together to do more than just talk. At the City’s first ever Open Innovation Hackathon, they came to build. Organized [...]
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Arch Grants Announces Its Global Startup Competition Winners
BY: Caryn Tomer
With St. Louis being touted earlier this year as the fastest growing city for tech jobs, you might have been surprised… Well, only if you live outside of St. Louis. After all, St. Louis isn’t exactly New York or the Bay area. However, there is a strong commitment within the startup community that is putting [...]
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Capital Innovators Demo Day 2013 (IN PHOTOS)
BY: Caryn Tomer
Last week, Capital Innovators hosted its Demo Day, where 11 companies from its fall 2012 and spring 2013 classes presented to an audience of over 500 people at the Pageant in St. Louis. These 500 people included prospective investors as well as mentors, supporters and entrepreneurs of tech firms in St. Louis. (Photos courtesy of Jason [...]
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Building A Rock Star Network: Strategies For Local Growth And Beyond
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Effective networks are the key to a successful business. A close-knit association of organizations, distributors, retailers and customers can help launch small local businesses to nationwide markets and recognition. Developing those networks, however, can be challenging — many beginners feel overwhelmed by the task. Fortunately for St. Louis entrepreneurs, the city is moving to create [...]
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Don’t Believe The Skype? Vonage Mobile App Takes On Microsoft
BY: Caryn Tomer
With the addition of video calling to the Vonage Mobile App, there’s a new player in the game, and they’re not shy about calling out their competition. “Don’t believe the Skype” is their tagline on their site, and they include a video with a comparison between the two apps (See it below). But, do they [...]
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SPICE Series Gets Personal
BY: Nicole Germain
On April 30, Paul Wessel, CEO of Innovation Consulting Partners LLC concluded the SPICE (Speakers Pioneering Innovation Creativity and Entrepreneurship) speaker series of the academic year, hosted by Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology of Saint Louis University. SPICE, sponsored by KEEN and the Coleman Foundation, was a free ongoing speaker series to enhance [...]
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Knight Foundation and Fisher Family fund Nonprofit Startup, Benevolent
BY: Sonali Basak
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and Fisher Family provided $285,000 in grant money to Benevolent, a crowdfunding site for low-income individuals, allowing it to move into three new areas: Charlotte, Silicon Valley and Detroit as announced Monday morning. Benevolent was launched in Chicago in 2011 by Megan Kashner, a long-time member [...]
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1871 anniversary spotlights Chicago startup growth
BY: Sonali Basak
Leaders of the Chicago startup community released figures Friday regarding the city’s start-up growth coinciding with the first anniversary of 1871, one of the city’s start-up incubators. “Over the last year, the tech community has really come together through 1871,” said Lindsay Mosher, executive director of the Illinois Technology Partnership. “This has really been [...]
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Great Companies Don’t Build Themselves
BY: Danyelle Michelini
When it comes to a startup, there are many factors that have to be present for it to be successful. Of course, you have to have a great idea. But that doesn’t build the company alone. It takes teamwork, funding, a support system, and the drive and passion to see the idea through. Servabo is [...]
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What Is The Technology Scene In Melbourne Like? Booming!
BY: Carlo Pandian
Melbourne is one of the few places in the world, outside of the United States, where Microsoft has a software development group – That in and of itself is a big indicator of just how much the technology scene in Melbourne has come on in the last few years. With a solid technological infrastructure, the [...]
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“Advance St. Louis” Series Helps Startups Move to High Growth Stage
BY: Caryn Tomer
Law firm Polsinelli Shughart and the Center for Emerging Technologies is offering its third seminar in its “Advance St. Louis” series on May 7, 2013. With past events focusing on patent law and board of directors selection, their next event promises to deliver another strong topic with how to successfully structure and complete a friends [...]
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Android’s New Head; New Era for Google?
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Android always seems to be the most happening platform any way you look at it, and it’s not always good news. As an example, a new study conducted by security firm NQ Mobile says that over 32.8 million Android devices were infected in 2012 with mobile malware, which is an increase over 200% from 2011. [...]
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Arch Grants Finalist Weekend 2013
BY: Edward Domain
Over 700 entrepreneurs entered Arch Grants 2013 startup competition and this weekend saw the 40 finalists come to St. Louis to compete for a non-dilutive, $50,000 grant. What makes Arch Grants unique in the country is that the winners of the grant receive $50,000 in funding for their business and no equity is surrendered. The [...]
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