SLU Senior Wins $201K Grant for Water For Panama
November 24, 2014Water for Panama is a non-profit startup launched by St. Louis University senior Rachael Burchett when she was in high school. “I was in Panama on a mission trip with.
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CEO Sundays
Editorial
CEO Sundays: How to Make Your Writer’s Block Even Worse
November 23, 2014Of all the things you did in school, creative writing was probably your worst subject. “I can’t wait to never do that again,” you thought. After all, unless you’re.
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St. Louis
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, MU to Hire Four Joint Researchers
November 21, 2014Officials from the University of Missouri and the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis announced today a new collaborative agreement that will lead to the hiring of four new researchers who.
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Money
Three Health Firms Dominate at Startup Connection
November 21, 2014A trio of medically related companies dominated the Startup Competition for the fifth-annual Startup Connection this year, walking away with $100,000 in total. Nanopore Diagnostics, a producer of 30 minute-test.
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People
Startup Weekend St. Louis Champion: DiversifyUs
November 18, 2014DiversitfyUs, an app helping corporations better diversify their workforce, took first place at St. Louis’ Startup Weekend on Sunday. And they took the idea from concept to reality in 54.
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Money
The VC Model Is Broken — Here’s How to Fix It
November 14, 2014How can you fix a model that nearly everyone agrees is in need of some drastic retooling? Claims of excessive fees, too much meddling, and poor returns to investors are.
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People
LaunchCode Celebrates Year One
November 12, 2014Most one-year-olds still have trouble walking. But LaunchCode – the non-profit organization established by Square founder Jim McKelvey that provides computer programming instruction, apprenticeships and job placement for anyone looking for economic.
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Money
The Growth of the Billiken Angels Network
November 11, 2014Recently, I wrote about the St. Louis Arch Angels. However, they are not the only angel group active in the St. Louis entrepreneurial ecosystem. The other angel investing network.
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Money
St. Louis Arch AngelsBring Influx of Capital to St. Louis Startups
November 10, 2014At a recent meeting at Washington University’s Olin School of Business, four different companies (Better Weekdays, Pulse Therapeutics,Prosper Women’s Entrepreneurs and Elemental Enzymes) each pitched their business to a group of local.
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LA
Disruptive Tech is the Focus at Viterbi Startup Garage
November 7, 2014Cities have their dominant culture. Los Angeles, media capital. New York, finance. Silicon Valley, software engineering. At least, at one time that was true. It’s all changing now, particularly in.
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