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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. JBara.com complements and extends traditional CRM software such as Salesforce to improve customer retention and satisfaction.

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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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Note: His freemium plan actually converted 12% more, but had the lowest retention. In October 2007, the British band Radiohead launched their latest album – In Rainbows – on the Internet. Louis and Detroit. .” It might also be that in these complex and fast times we live in, people yearn for simplicity.

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