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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. Invest Midwest ended with a presentation by Jim McKelvey, cofounder of the mobile-payment company Square and a local St.

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What Skills Every New Internet Entrepreneur Needs

ReadWriteStart

Louis is not the hotbed of VC activity and especially not for Internet firms. Understand your distribution channel, or how you reach your customers. Don't be afraid to make your biz plan a living, breathing entity. Don't be afraid to leave town to get more money.

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5 Steps For Organizing Your Paperless Office

YoungUpstarts

Implementing user permissions for high-level folders protects the digitized documents from being accessed by unauthorized users, which means a lower risk of documents being mishandled, distributed, or corrupted, or data being compromised. As Principal of Anderson Archival , a digital archiving company in St.

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The 3 Essential SEO Tools for Any Marketing Consultant

Duct Tape Marketing

Listing Management: Distribute business information, manage reviews, and keep all local listings pages current. So if you have a client operating out of the St. Louis area, all of the data BrightLocal provides will be related to that geographical area. This helps marketing consultants drum up new leads.

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Why Niche Start-Ups Are Making Waves In 2020

YoungUpstarts

Generally, a new company can’t undercut the established players in terms of pricing or get wider distribution, but a new idea gives you an advantage that money can’t buy. Neocova is a core banking start-up based in St. Louis that aims its services squarely at small banks and credit unions. Its investors include the Bank of St.

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Why on Earth Would Anybody Post Business Videos on Snapchat?

Both Sides of the Table

If I blog on a stand-alone platform I have to work to get distribution. In fact, my next one is a one-hour interview with Chamillionaire that I did earlier this month at Washington University in St. I’m getting 7,000 views per video in less than 24 hours and that’s only bound to go up. Snapchat is similar. The audience is there.

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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

So one of my long running rants has been about how we should gather all the evidence we have to try and make a best guess as to the distribution of possible outcomes based on possible upsides and possible risks and costs and make an overall assessment of that totality of evidence and impacts. Louis I think it was.