ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

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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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

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).

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Programming St. Louis Cofounder India 120

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

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.

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Software Review Software St. Louis API 285

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

fast.ai , the company he co-founded with Rachel Thomas and Sylvain Gugger is working to "radically democratize" deep learning by making it accessible to people beyond the tech world through courses, software and other methods. Enlitic builds machine learning-based software for radiologists that produces more accurate and faster assessments.

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