LockerDome, one of the fastest growing St. Louis-based startups, scored one of eight Business Of The Year awards last week. The awards were given out by the city and the St. Louis Development Corp. as part of the Business Celebration Luncheon 2012 event on October 5.
Unbranded Designs was chosen from a group of four startups that have been participating in the Lean Startup Circle’s rigorous 14 week program to bring lean startup methodology into the core of their businesses.
Chicago’s SeedCon startup event organized by the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago has officially opened applications for its signature fast-pitch event this week.
This coming Tuesday, October 9th, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian will visit both St. Louis’ Washington University and downtown startup incubator T-REx to discuss the open internet and the censorship bills that threaten the web as we know it today.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel will do almost anything to keep the heavily recruited University of Illinois students from leaving the state to go work in Silicon Valley. This week, he appeared in front of a group of students at the Urbana-Champaign campus, imploring them to consider starting their careers in Chicago.
Click With Me Now and Evtron have been hard at work showcasing their uniquely innovative technologies to the crowd of entrepreneurs and investors at this year’s DEMO conference.
This week The Brandery, a Cincinnati-based startup accelerator, introduced its latest class of companies to a crowd of more than 300 during its latest demo day.
In December 2011, Forbes ran a piece called St. Louis Doesn’t Suck by writer Aaron Perlut. Little did Perlut know that less than a year later, his infamous title would turn into a full-fledged movement.
AIGA shined a spotlight on the best of the St. Louis design community during their seven days of STL DesignWeek programming last week. The event, in its second year, featured talks, events, tours, and exhibitions devoted to celebrating the contributions of local designers.
Green technology company Intellihot continues to add investors to its Series A round this week with Chicago investment group Cornertstone Angels coming onboard.
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