Meet Healthfundr: Equity-Based Crowdfunding For Health Startups

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 [...]... Read More

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Arch Grants Selects Winners for $100,000 Follow-on Funding
BY: Edward Domain
St. Louis’ based Arch Grants announced the recipients of two $100,000 follow-on grants Friday. Food Essentials and simMachines, both Arch Grants recipients from the inaugural class won the follow on grants based on the progress each company has made since then. Arch Grants is a startup competition based in St. Louis that awards $50,000 non-dilutive grants [...]
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7 Tools to Document Internal Processes in Your Startup
BY: The Young Entrepreneur Council
What’s your favorite platform for creating a custom wiki to document FAQs or internal processes, and why? The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi, the YEC recently launched #StartupLab, a free virtual mentorship program that helps [...]
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StartUp Missouri’s St. Louis And Kansas City SXSW Trip: The Love Affair Begins
BY: Edward Domain
Like any good love story, this one starts with a ‘meet-cute’ involving entrepreneurs in St. Louis and Kansas City that ventured down to Austin, TX (and SXSW 2013) on the StartUp Missouri bus. They shared many things: a long ride, impossible sleep positions and a toilet that stopped working about a mile into the trip. [...]
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LockerDome Fastest Growing Sports Site In World; Blows Past 10M Uniques And Raises $6M In Funding
BY: Edward Domain
“Someday, I’ll even tell you how many total pageviews we have. Probably not though.” The fastest growing sports site in the world, (and hottest St. Louis startup) LockerDome, just closed a $6 million round of funding and also just blew past 10M monthly unique visitors to its website. “We are the most capital efficient online [...]
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Navy Destroyer Spruance Like A Tech Startup (With Rolls Royce Engines)
BY: Steven Bustin
This is part 4. You can go back to part I, part II or Part III We requested a tour of the engine room and in true Navy fashion, they agreed and then offered a pre-emptive apology if any of us felt uncomfortable since some find it claustrophobic. Engine room is of course, a misnomer. [...]
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Entrepreneur Spotlight: Meet Simerneet Singh
BY: Marcus Hayes
“My passion is doing and teaching mediation. I find that it helps you make a better decision, evaluate situations more objectively and foster a more selfless environment among team members,” said Catapult’s Simer Singh. Simer Singh joined Catapult in 2013 as a EIR ( Entrepreneur In Residence). Before starting his career, Singh attended and graduated [...]
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BREAKING NOW: @BurgerKing Hacked- McDonalds Spy? Anonymous?
BY: Edward Domain
It probably had to happen sometime- open warfare between Burger giants @BurgerKing and @McDonalds has begun. Maybe. Right now, someone or somebody has hacked @BurgerKing and changed to what you see above. Click over there quick, it might not be up long….assuming SOMEONE is paying attention to the twitter feed there. We’re pretty sure a [...]
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CEO Sundays: Jackalope Jobs’ Sudy Bharadwaj On The Best Hiring Techniques For Startups
BY: Sudy Bharadwaj
Hiring for any startup is often critical to its success–but not every startup CEO is equipped or ready to be a hiring manager. The thing to remember is that your business is growing, and that’s a good thing. Throughout my time hiring for my startup, I’ve found three important factors hold true in hiring, creating, [...]
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CEO Sundays: How To Prepare For Your Tech Interview
BY: Alan Carniol
The IT job market is recovering at a much faster pace than other industries, with an unemployment rate half that of the national average. With more technology jobs available, there is a better chance for tech job seekers to be get interviews. The question is, will you be ready? Job interviews for technology-based positions are [...]
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Advertising and Social Media: The Perfect Accessory?
BY: Caryn Tomer
It’s been said that post-modernism is the new black. On the heels of one of advertising’s biggest events, I’ve been thinking a lot about this movement and how it relates to present day advertising. I’d argue that if post-modernism is the new black, then advertising is the perfect accessory. Walk through any city in the [...]
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Navy Destroyer Spruance Like Hi-Tech Startup (With Missiles)
BY: Steven Bustin
*Editors Note: This is part 1 of a several part series- Bay area entrepreneur Steven Bustin had a unique opportunity and we thought our readers would enjoy a walk through a different lifestyle. His pieces on his adventure aboard the USS SPruance will appear once per week- enjoy! How did I get here? I am [...]
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LockerDome And USA Today Forge Strategic Partnership #BOOM
BY: Edward Domain
“Hi, I’m Gabe. You’d be smiling too if your team kicked this much ass.” Any regular reader of Techli knows the LockerDome story- we’ve covered them lots. (Here, here and here and a few other times too). Just the other day, Jon Friedman over at MarketWatch called Lockerdome, “Facebook on steroids”, and current metrics show [...]
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