Most Recent News

Don't miss daily news

Evtron: 19 Year Old Wunderkind CEO Lands Slot At DEMO

When most eight year old kids were playing with action figures, Andrew Mayhall started wondering if he could find a way to build a high efficiency server. Eleven years later,.

  • 0
  • 499 views

Portland-Based Prestobox Automates Brand Identity For Small Businesses

When it comes to branding, small business owners often have no clue where to start. But where should they turn for help? Enter Prestobox, a company that automates brand identity.

  • 0
  • 565 views

Cleveland’s Tackk Focuses On Simple Design To Make Sharing Easy

Ohio-based startup Tackk has created a new option for sharing on the web, where any user can make a basic, single-use web page for whatever they need, with dead-simple posting tools and no registration necessary.

  • 0
  • 516 views

Teensy Techli Tweets: iPhone5

Happy iPhone 5 launch day! To celebrate, check out this iPhone 5 Teensy Tweet by the creator of the hilarious “Goodnight Burbank” TV show, Hayden Black.

  • 0
  • 537 views

Confluence Raises $4M To Accelerate Novel Cancer Treatment Research

Confluence, a St. Louis-based biomedical research company, announced that it has secured $4 million in series A venture capital financing this week that will help further the company’s research of kinase inhibitor cancer treatments.

  • 0
  • 558 views

IDC Projects Set To Join Capital Innovators, Plans For New App Releases

St. Louis mobile app startup and fellow Arch Grants recipient IDC Projects has been in the app development market since the beginning days of the iPhone, with an early hit in a barcode scanning app.

  • 0
  • 659 views

What Square’s $3.25 Billion Valuation Means For Mobile Payments

Square is valued at a whopping $3.25 billion according to AllThingsD after the company closed its latest $200 million round. But what does this mean in the increasingly crowded mobile payments space?

  • 0
  • 586 views

Celebrating Ingenuity At Portland’s Mini Maker Faire

The Mini Maker Faire events happen in cities across the world as part of the larger Maker Faire movement based on the original faire held in San Mateo, California in 2006. Unlike art fairs where the work is available to purchase and not to touch, Maker Faires are meant to be experienced.

  • 0
  • 542 views

Want To Build A Startup Ecosystem? Build A 24 Hour Coffeeshop With Free Wifi First.

I’m writing this on a Saturday night at 11:00pm at a coffeeshop in the southeast neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. It’s open 24 hours a day, it serves great lattes, and organic food, and the wifi is free. Oh yeah, it’s also packed with people working on something important.

  • 0
  • 685 views

The Startup Chronicles: A True Tale Of Customer Discovery

When you hang out in the startup scene, it feels unnatural to have a conversation with someone who doesn’t have a smooth silver screen propped up between the two of you. I’ve found that shutting off my computer and getting out into the world to talk to potential customers has been the best business moves I have made recently.

  • 0
  • 500 views