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St. Louis Startups Strut Their Stuff

ReadWriteStart

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. BusyEvent.com manages what sessions conferences-goers want to attend and records their vendor-booth encounters.

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Focus, Fire, Fortitude: 3 Traits You Need For Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

by Daniel Evans , founder and CEO of Garbshare. Don’t mistake misplaced pride for toughness, and don’t be afraid to take on a co-founder if you need to. Daniel Evans is the founder and CEO of Garbshare , a St. Cultivate fortitude to get yourself through the rough times.

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Memphis-based Start Co. To Present 16 Startups At Demo Day

YoungUpstarts

Memphis, Tennessee-based nonprofit venture development organization Start Co. teams were guided by Start Co. managing director Mara Lewis and founder & CEO Eric Mathews. ” Find out more about Start Co’s Demo Day here. . ” Find out more about Start Co’s Demo Day here.

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Love About Being An Entrepreneur

Hearpreneur

Being a co-founder of a real estate investment company allows me to set my own objectives, determine my work hours, and reap the rewards of my actions. Before becoming a business owner I used to be a manager at the Boeing company and managed a team of engineers working on the 787 Dreamliner. Louis and now Texas.

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Jason Seats Featured on We Are Austin Tech

SiliconHills

Jason Seats, managing director of the TechStars Cloud program was featured recently on We Are Austin Tech. Seats, cofounder of Slicehost, a cloud hosting company, has helped countless entrepreneurs through the TechStars Cloud program. Seats moved from St. Louis to San Antonio. He is also an active angel investor.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice. Joel moved to Seattle, and worked at Microsoft for three years as a program manager on Excel 4.0 Joel met his co-founder for Fog Creek software and learned a valuable management lesson.

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

fast.ai , the company he co-founded with Rachel Thomas and Sylvain Gugger is working to "radically democratize" deep learning by making it accessible to people beyond the tech world through courses, software and other methods. And so I started doing that with this management consulting guy. Jeremy Howard : Sure. And he told me.