St. Louis

Former BusyEvent CEO: Stepping Aside Was “Not A Difficult Decision”

This past week former BusyEvent CEO David Schenberg has passed the reigns to Alyn Essman to get the event management startup onto the right track for the launch of its revamped mobile platform next year.

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Billiken Angels Network Drops St. Louis University Requirement

The Billiken Angels Network, part of Saint Louis University’s John Cook School of Business, announced this week that it is dropping the requirement that all investments must have founders with ties to the university as students, former students, faculty, or staff.

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Evtron’s CEO On Facebook Acquisition Rumors

Today is one of those days I get to have a laugh at mainstream media (it happens often). Consider Evtron: Techli first reported on Evtron here: 19 Year Old Wunderkind.

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Onshore Outsourcing Fights The “Walmart Effect” In Rural America

Onshore Outsourcing’s mission is to prevent foreign outsourcing by encouraging companies to outsource jobs to rural areas where jobs are needed the most.

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TruPulse Turns Any Flat Surface Into Speaker

Through the power of vibration, the TruPulse speaker can make make glass, wood, plasterboard, and many other resonation-capable surfaces sing.

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Capital Innovators Opens Applications For Spring Class

St. Louis startup accelerator Capital Innovators has begun accepting applications for its Spring 2013 class this week, offering fledgling companies $50,000 in seed funding as well as free office space in T-REx.

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Lockerdome and RollSale CEOs To Speak At StartLouis

The StartLouis meetup is a grassroots community of startup enthusiasts that was founded in late autumn of last year. Since then, the group has grown to include over 230 members and four sponsors: Lockerdome, T-REx, Schlafly, and Food Essentials.

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adFreeq Is The Anti-Craigslist

While Craigslist has widely been criticized as singlehandedly killing the newspaper industry by taking classifieds to the web, adFREEQ is attempting to reclaim the classified revenue model for traditional media outlets like radio and newspapers that now have a web presence.

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One Year Later, T-REx Roars Louder Than City Leaders Expected

The economic activity from within T-REx roars louder than city leaders originally expected, and St. Louis is ready to transition T-REx from an initiative to a formalized organization.

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Arch Grants Ups The Ante To $1 Million For Next Batch Of Grants

Arch Grants is a non-profit organization that issues grants based on The Arch Grants Business Plan Competition, but the only catch is that the startups selected to receive the grants must stay (or relocate) to downtown St. Louis.

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