crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

William Hurley, the co-founder of Honest Dollar, an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits. Austin has become quite a hotspot.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

To find out more about how co-founders can help startups succeed,and how founders can find the right partners, I talked with Kaviani and Julie Edge, Ph.D., who is the founder of Inside Edge Solutions, on the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis, and has worked with Kaviani. Science doesn’t know business.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 12, 2019

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. have lived in Prince Edward Island, New York, St. Louis and now Texas. Thanks to Katie Horgan, Giving Assistant ! #2- 2- Lot’s of fun. Photo Credit: Alex Romanov.

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SiliconHills

AUGUST 24, 2015

By HOJUN CHOI Special Contributor to Silicon Hills News Austin’s growing tech scene and vibrant entrepreneurial community convinced Robert Palmer, CEO and founder of PotentiaMetrics, to move his startup from St. Louis to Austin last year.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 17, 2011

On Sunday I’m going to run the St. Louis Rock and Roll Marathon with my friend Matt Shobe (now at BigDoor; was one of the co-founders of FeedBurner). While I’m crisscrossing the country again this week (New York today and tomorrow, then San Francisco Wednesday through Friday before heading to St.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 31, 2012

Klein is the founder and CEO of a new peer-to-peer lending platform called SoMoLend and she’s won 25 of the 27 startup competitions she’s (That’s a winning percentage of 92.59% - do the math). We drove to St. Louis six times for the Olin Cup competition at Washington University. That’s an exaggeration. But you could win 92.59%.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 2, 2012

As first-time entrepreneurs, the RecoVend founders knew they would need lots of mentoring to avoid the pitfalls in the early stages of a startup. The application was fairly straightforward, just a Web application where you answer some questions about the founders, the company, the idea and your progress to date,” Judah explains.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 31, 2012

Klein is the founder and CEO of a new peer-to-peer lending platform called SoMoLend and she’s won 25 of the 27 startup competitions she’s (That’s a winning percentage of 92.59% - do the math). We drove to St. Louis six times for the Olin Cup competition at Washington University. That’s an exaggeration. But you could win 92.59%.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

My co-founder, Dr. Jeff Tarrant , wrote the book on neuromeditation. Columbia is located between St. Louis and Kansas City in the “silicon prairie.” My co-founder, Dr. Jeff Tarrant, was my husband’s business partner when they had a psychology practice together. It allows you to peer around the corner to see what’s ahead.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Though, this article is not a reflection on the fundamentals of unicorns—rather, I am using them as a proxy for situations in which founders have executed on big ideas. 38 unicorns, or 1 in 4 (24%), have at least one MBA founder. 63 MBA founders are represented among the 157 unicorns. ShopClues (2x WashU St. Key Insights.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 31, 2012

Klein is the founder and CEO of a new peer-to-peer lending platform called SoMoLend and she’s won 25 of the 27 startup competitions she’s (That’s a winning percentage of 92.59% – do the math). We drove to St. Louis six times for the Olin Cup competition at Washington University. That’s an exaggeration. Candace Klein did.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 2, 2016

I learn a lot from Bianca St. Are people optimistic about the types of companies being formed and latest generation of founders? From a structural standpoint there needs to be thoughtful time investment in solving is the lack of black and latino women founders and the lack of diversity in the venture realm.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 8, 2012

Judy Sindecuse , CEO and managing partner at Capital Innovators , a startup accelerator in St. Louis, is trying to crack the code. Her organization runs a 12-week mentorship program for promising entrepreneurs in the St. Louis area and provides them $50,000 in seed funding. Louis than it does in Silicon Valley.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2020

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. Pepper’s founders discovered that most companies design their bras for a standard size, and then scale this to fit outside of the standard range.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2016

Of course I fund people outside of that age range but statistically startup founders of VC-backed tech companies are more likely in that range. In fact, my next one is a one-hour interview with Chamillionaire that I did earlier this month at Washington University in St. I will publish it next week.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 8, 2012

Judy Sindecuse, CEO and managing partner at Capital Innovators , a startup accelerator in St. Louis, is trying to crack the code. Her organization runs a 12-week mentorship program for promising entrepreneurs in the St. Louis area and provides them $50,000 in seed funding. Louis than it does in Silicon Valley.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 8, 2012

Judy Sindecuse, CEO and managing partner at Capital Innovators , a startup accelerator in St. Louis, is trying to crack the code. Her organization runs a 12-week mentorship program for promising entrepreneurs in the St. Louis area and provides them $50,000 in seed funding. Louis than it does in Silicon Valley.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 11, 2020

With a new track focused on the emerging field of Sports Tech starting this year, MassChallenge and Stadia Ventures (“Stadia”) are collaborating to create an end-to-end pipeline of support for entrepreneurs by bridging talent, access to mentors, funding and relationships for founders building the next generation of sports and esports companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 4, 2015

They arrived through New York and eventually found their way to St. Louis, then Philadelphia and ultimately to Sacramento, CA. .” My family is Jewish. On my mom’s side they came from Poland and Lithuania and similar such places.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice. Joel met his co-founder for Fog Creek software and learned a valuable management lesson. None are in Silicon Valley, one is in New York City, they’re spread out across the world (France, Estonia, St.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

I chair a medical data research lab called WAMRI, and probably best known as the co-founder of fast.ai, although increasingly finding myself known, surprisingly enough to me, as the co-founder of this thing called #Masks4All. There was also war bonds, big ceremony parade in St. Louis I think it was. Jeremy Howard : Sure.

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