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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. Each presenter had small demo booths where investors could ask questions about the venture and see the software in operation. This is the 13th year the conference has been in business, which alternates each year between Kansas City and St.

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How to Start A New Business in Less Than 50 Hours

ReadWriteStart

Over Saturday and Sunday teams focus on customer development, validating their ideas and building a minimal viable product. I signed up for this past weekend in St. The groups met in the Railway Exchange building in downtown St. Several of them came from other cities that don't have their own weekend code-a-thons.

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20 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Companies They Admire Most For Innovation

Hearpreneur

I was born without a left hand, and because Open Bionics innovated on affordable and sophisticated 3D printed prosthetics, my life has improved drastically, in big ways and small, and most importantly, I will be able to take better care of my daughter who is due in November. Located in St. Photo Credit: Thomas Jepsen. 20- Patagonia.

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HBS Entrepreneurs Founded the Most Startup Unicorns of Any MBA Program

View from Seed

ShopClues (2x WashU St. MBA Unicorns Weigh Heavily Toward Software, Consumer Internet, and E-Commerce. Unsurprisingly, software, consumer internet, and e-commerce companies make up the significant majority of MBA unicorns. India: ShopClues (Washington University St. Louis), Quikr (IIM Calcutta). Oscar (2x HBS).

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An Extensive Guide To Web Form Usability

uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

The above action buttons are found at the end of a lengthy form for enrolling in St. Louis Community College. Learn more on Coding: JavaScript & jQuery. Or you have the one that are text entry and the developer has added a forced change in focus, moving the user to the next field, which can be equally frustrating.

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Austin Has a Street Harassment Problem

Austin Startup

I was first harassed while walking on the street with a female neighbor in St. Louis at the age of 12, by a man in a Jeep commenting on our developing figures. link] There are a wide variety of international precedents available for Austin’s leaders to review while crafting potential local policy on this issue.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.