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

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Top Considerations When Selecting A Cloud Backup Provider

YoungUpstarts

Amy Anderson is a principal owner at Anderson Technologies, a St. Louis based IT company. While online backup solutions’ accessibility, cost efficiency, and security make them a smart choice for small businesses, it is necessary to consider the array of product choices carefully before selecting a service.

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20 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Companies They Admire Most For Innovation

Hearpreneur

Located in St. Louis, they sell prescription safety eyewear to companies throughout the country. The research and engineering that goes into these products ensure that they are durable, and even though expensive, at first, their value for money is exceptional. Thanks to Thomas Jepsen, Check4Lead ! #3-Complete 7- Facebook.

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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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24 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Love About Being An Entrepreneur

Hearpreneur

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. I personally lived 20 years in the gray jail cells of corporate America as an engineer before I escaped. have lived in Prince Edward Island, New York, St. Louis and now Texas.

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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs (2018)

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behind Silicon Valley and New York), the city of flowers and sunshine boasts one of the largest concentrations of engineering graduates in the country. cities that you should keep in mind as some of the best cities for startups and entrepreneurs: St. In addition to being the third largest startup hub in the U.S. Minneapolis, MN.

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6 Ways To Win Every Startup Competition You Enter

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You get engineers and mathematicians who are starting companies and they get so bogged down in details they don’t do a good job of explaining what the business does. We drove to St. Louis six times for the Olin Cup competition at Washington University. That will not sway judges and investors. You have to be there in person.

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