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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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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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Transcript of Business Lessons Learned on the Baseball Field

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I was working in St. Louis that year and so I was in visiting with the Cardinals, which doesn’t make people happy in Kansas City. It gives me no equity to try to push on things that I’m not going to get an answer to. I mean, one who puts vocally puts culture out there ahead of a lot of those. I was in visiting.