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LockerDome Levels Up By Celebrating 3 Million Monthly Uniques Milestone

St. Louis-based LockerDome is celebrating a major traffic milestone today. 3 million monthly unique visitors are now flocking to the sports social media platform. This milestone now officially places the company among the fastest growing online sports-specific websites in the world.

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How To Warm Up Your Cold Email

As the hustler half of the classic hustler / hacker startup team, I’ve employed all of these email tactics to line up an incredible number of high caliber meetings over the past month. The key is to warm up your cold emails. Here’s how.

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eBay Classifieds Takes on Craigslist

It’s no secret that mobile is the next great opportunity for commerce. The numbers from this past Black Friday indicate mobile was a huge driving force behind consumer purchases. eBay.

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Jenny Dibble: Connecting The Women Entrepreneurs of St. Louis

Jenny Dibble knows more than a little bit about entrepreneurship. Dibble started her first web development business in the eighth grade by teaching herself to code and began designing websites for local businesses in her hometown. Now that Dibble has founded and sold her biggest venture to date, she is reaching out to other women in the St. Louis entrepreneurial community to create a network of experienced, professional entrepreneurs who want to help each other take their careers to the next level.

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Perfect Your Pitch At December’s Funding Feeding Frenzy

This week Chicago entrepreneurs and investors will have the chance to come together for a full day of networking at this year’s second Funding Feeding Frenzy (FFF) event at the Chopin Theater.

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Jim Allsup Gives SLU’s Center For Entrepreneurship Largest Gift To Date

The Center for Entrepreneurship at SLU’s Cook School of Businesses plans to use the $2.2 million gift to bring the entrepreneurial program to students at an earlier stage in their education.

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Unbranded Designs: Disrupting Retail Furniture Monotony

Chicago-based furniture startup Unbranded Designs is looking to bring an entirely new option to the furniture shopping market, with a community website that links furniture seekers directly to the kind of unique designs they’re not likely to find on the floor of a local retail store.

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Aetna Taps FoodEssentials To Unlock Food Label Data For Developers

St. Louis-based FoodEssentials is the latest in the series of Health 2.0 companies to partner with Aetna’s CarePass Developer Portal. FoodEssentials’ Label API joins the Rewards API by EarnedIt and Medical Search by Healthline among other health and wellness APIs to form a platform that apps like iTriage, MapMyFitness, Thryve, FatSecret, Gympact, Strava, and RunKeeper have all integrated with.

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Seedcon Fast-Pitch Winners Take Home More Than $100k In Prizes

Intelligent Loop, DigitalGroundup, and Infrared Solutions were this year’s top winners, bringing home more than $100,000 in valuable business services.

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Vizify And BrandYourself Partner To Clean Up Your Google Search Results

Portland-based Vizify, a graphical bio tool for showing the best of you online, is partnering with BrandYourself, an online reputation management service, to make sure that your beautiful Vizify bio ranks higher than the embarrassing Florida mugshot of someone you unfortunately share the same name with.

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