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St. Louis Startups Strut Their Stuff

ReadWriteStart

The companies were all part of Capital Innovators, an accelerator venture fund that has been operating since last fall. Each presenter had small demo booths where investors could ask questions about the venture and see the software in operation. Both events drew small and large investors from all over the country. Louis tech investor.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

I had my own company operating under the name of Kamal and Shashi Sharma Ltd. So, I ended up naming the business after the place where it was born — Kansas City, Kansas. Thanks to Tim Sims, Kansas-Sleep ! #25- I was brainstorming names with my co-founders CTO Jesse Forrest and CMO Matt Reilly.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Did Prior to Starting Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

By this time, Erin had already spent 4 years in operations at a startup that was in skyrocket growth mode, so she knew her knowledge in scaling operations was as valuable as this idea; she became my co-founder. Thanks to Janet Wu, SilkRoll ! #7 7 – From Building Structures to Building Relationships.

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9 Unlikely Entrepreneurs Who Changed The Market

YoungUpstarts

It’s hard to believe that the genius behind the co-creation of software giant Microsoft never finished college, but it’s clear he didn’t need his diploma to do big things. Today, Microsoft and its line of operating systems are the biggest and most widely used in the world. Sergey Brin.

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SXSW Startups: Healium

Austin Startup

My co-founder, Dr. Jeff Tarrant , wrote the book on neuromeditation. As BCI and other biometric navigation tools get more advanced, we look forward to the day when you’ll be able to operate Healium’s menus completely hands-free…just with your mind or heart rate or respiration. Louis and Kansas City in the “silicon prairie.”

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4 Tips on Hiring New Team Members

ReadWriteStart

But for startups and small businesses looking to hire for new positions in order to operate at optimal speed, hiring new team members that work out in the long-run can be one of the more difficult challenges. Danny Wong is the co-founder of Blank Label Group and runs the e-commerce startups Blank Label , Thread Tradition and RE:custom.

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Turns Out The Future of the Office Isn’t an Office at All

Duct Tape Marketing

I’ve owned my own business for twenty-years now and in some fashion have operated pretty much like most traditional small businesses. I interviewed Jason Fried , co-founder of Basecamp and author of REMOTE , for the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast recently and he shared this view as well.