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.
According to Chicago-based startup CakeStyle, the average woman spends 170 hours per year shopping. For busy professional women, this is time that could be spent growing their companies, or launching new ventures. CakeStyle takes the concept of saving time for busy women one step further by becoming a personal style assistant that delivers fashions finds that are suited according to a woman’s personal style.
Two new tenants joined the existing tenants at University of Missouri–St. Louis’s Innovative Technology Enterprises (ITE) incubator last week. The two new companies, Retectix and Onshore Outsourcing, bring the total number of companies participating in the program up to eight.
Virtual grocery stores have been popular in Asia long before we considered launching them here in America. Thanks to internet grocer Peapod, cities across the U.S. will soon have virtual grocery stores in hundreds of commuter rail stations in Boston, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C. and Chicago.
St. Louis’s Helix Center Biotech Incubator welcomes its first two tenants after opening this June. The 17,000 square feet center offers space to early-stage life science firms in need of labs and offices.
The founder of Gluejar, a New Jersey-based startup, is promoting a rigorous campaign to “unglue” or “make a digital book free to read and use worldwide,” thus eliminating cost barriers still felt in many poor communities.
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.
Kansas City, Missouri-based Think Big Partners has accepted six startups into its inaugural accelerator class. The program, called Think Big Accelerator, is a twenty-two week program that will start on September 25.
Turner Broadcasting’s new accelerator program Media Camp celebrated the end if its first twelve week program last Thursday at the program’s demo day.
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