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St. Louis Startups Strut Their Stuff

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Two events this week in St. Louis show how vibrant the startup ecosystem has become there. This is the 13th year the conference has been in business, which alternates each year between Kansas City and St. Dining Circle runs in the cloud rather than the dedicated PCs that OpenTable.com provides to their restaurant customers.

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As The Leader Of Your Company, It Pays To Be Emotionally Intelligent

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Often, this is most noticeable when it comes to employee retention and engagement: In a company with strong leadership, when something needs to get done, people strive to complete it — because they want to. Louis native, Schulte is a board member of the Gateway Chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

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Capital Innovators Graduates First Class of Entrepreneurs

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Tonight in downtown St. Louis the second group of companies to be funded by Capital Innovators will be announced. For example, Sam Glines says, "Effectively, NorseCorp , while led by me, born and raised in St Louis, was a stranger in its own town. They also signed Global eTelecom as a customer, one of U.S.'

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20 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Companies They Admire Most For Innovation

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Innovation drives media attention and fosters customer retention rate, which is why most companies strive to have it in their mission statement. It seeks to solve customer problems in a better and modern way, thus helping such companies edge the competition. Located in St. Thanks to Thomas Jepsen, Check4Lead ! #3-Complete

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Want $50k in Seed Funding? Apply now.

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Located in an underused mixed-use office building in downtown St. Louis, the program is run by two venture capitalists - Judy Sindecuse and Hal Gentry - who have formed a new entity called Capital Innovators. Any firm can apply, but must agree to move to St. That, plus a layoff and reassignment of its St.

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Pricing experiments you might not know, but can learn from

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What will work for you depends on your industry, product and customer. Note: His freemium plan actually converted 12% more, but had the lowest retention. Setting a fair suggested price gives the customer a true sense of value. At worst, customers may feel they are being gamed into pay more than a sale price.

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