Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Missouri is our fourth state to go live following Massachusetts, Colorado, and Alaska. Government Global EIR immigration missouri st. On September 15, 2016, UMSL Accelerate joined the Global EIR network and began taking applications for its international accelerator program, Gateway Accelerate. Today is the last day to apply , so if you are considering it, don’t wait. The goal of this program is to contribute to St.

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 9, 2019

Two startups from Houston and another from Missouri City, Texas also made the finalist list. “We Five finalists and four alternates from Austin made the list for the 11th annual SXSW Pitch event to be held at SXSW in March.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Upon returning from his tour in Afghanistan, Kander returned to his hometown of Kansas City, Missouri and became involved in politics. In addition to his work in Missouri politics, Kander founded Let America Vote , a grassroots campaign to combat voter suppression nationwide.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2019

Colby is a living example of how it works there, starting with his Parengo Coffee Shop in Sikeston, Missouri.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 22, 2013

The Springfield, Missouri-based startup is privately held and backed by venture capital firm Baron VC. Crowdfunding, the new in-thing in micro-financing that’s taken the world by storm thanks to the likes of Kickstarter , takes a twist with new crowdfunding site CrowdIt.

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SiliconHills

MARCH 31, 2013

BY ANDREW MOORE Reporter with Silicon Hills News High school students from Texas, Missouri, Florida, and Mexico arrived at the Henry B. Gonzales convention center this weekend for the FIRST Robotics Competition.

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SiliconHills

JUNE 21, 2016

Columbus beat Austin, Denver, Portland, Oregon, Kansas City, Missouri, Pittsburgh and San Francisco to win the first […] The post Austin Loses $50 Million Smart City Challenge to Columbus appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Up and Running

JULY 5, 2016

Louis; and if you are a female entrepreneur, the Missouri Women’s Council should be on your resources list. Finally, to give you a general idea of the business climate in Missouri, check out this interview in St. Louis Magazine with Missouri SCORE counselor Bob Boles.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 15, 2012

Al Doan, Missouri Star Quilt Co. TechStars is running an event called the Patriot Boot Camp in Washington D.C. from July 18-20. About 75 veterans who are active or aspiring entrepreneurs have already been accepted and will be attending. During this three day event, they’ll get a mini TechStars-like experience. The number of people who have stepped up to offer to mentor these veteran-formed companies is just awesome.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 19, 2013

You have a great idea for an app or a startup but you have have absolutely no programming skills.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2017

Bier Station was listed in Draft Magazine’s Top 100 for the past three years in a row and was named Best Beer Bar in Missouri by Craftbeer.com. Business Insider also named Bier Station the Best Bar in Missouri 2016.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 5, 2012

In the “you’ve got to be fucking kidding me” category, “ a Missouri federal judge ruled the FBI did not need a warrant to secretly attach a GPS monitoring device to a suspect’s car to track his public movements for two months.”

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 31, 2014

The Missouri Compromise and the Afermath (Robert Pierce Forbes). I was sitting at a Return Path board dinner around a year ago. We were at Frasca having a wonderful dinner when the discussion turned to American history. I sat and mostly listened as Matt Blumberg , Jeff Epstein , and Greg Sands had a vigorous discussion about several US presidents. Within about fifteen minutes, I realized that I knew almost nothing about American history.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 22, 2012

They grow easily in throughout the Missouri forests and on many a canoe or camping trip along the Buffalo or White Rivers in Southern Missouri and Northern Arkansas you can find massive, centuries old sycamores inviting you to take a nap in their shade.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Ok, if you’re sufficiently pissed, here what you can do: Let America Vote is a new effort from Jason Kander , former Missouri Secretary of State. An admission: as an upper-class white male in an unflinchingly Blue state, I was previously naive about the extent to which voter disenfranchisement had already impacted our country over the past decade.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Bert Doerhoff, the creator of this article, is the founder and owner of Accubiz, an accounting firm based out of Jefferson City, Missouri. He was also appointed to the Advisory Council to the Missouri Director of Revenue. Steve Jobs – Charisma can take you far.

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The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 12, 2015

The upshot, in the words of Marcus Raichle, a neuroscientist at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, is that with one scan (from nature.com): You can distinguish people with successful traits and successful lives versus those who are not so successful.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Beyond cost and time savings, there is a rich digital storytelling ecosystem here anchored by the Missouri School of Journalism, the world’s oldest Journalism school.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

APRIL 17, 2014

Kudos to Senators Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Roy Blunt (R-Missouri). Senator Roy Blunt. We Can’t Get Serious About Manufacturing Soon Enough. I support RAMI. I read with interest a post on the congressional blog The Hill.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2012

Michigan: Detroit Van Buren Minnesota: Minneapolis Missouri: Kirksville Montana: Bozeman Helena Missoula Pablo Nebraska: Lincoln Omaha Nevada: Las Vegas, /usr/lib, 520 Fremont St Las Vegas, CHSI Technologies, 770 Pilot Rd. One of the most important things we do with The Lean Startup Conference is make a livestream of the plenary talks available for free to groups around the world, supporting entrepreneurship communities everywhere.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 9, 2016

Louis, Missouri, found that ‘groups working together on a project while standing are measurably more engaged and less territorial than while seated.’. by Chloe Hashemi. Recent research shows that sitting down all day causes damage that exercise can’t fix.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Some states have early, prepayment obligations, like Missouri’s requirement to file weekly payments. By Jonathan Barsade, founder and CEO of Exactor. DIY (“Do-It-Yourself”) is a great idea when the task requires minimal expertise and failure will result in minimal damage.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 31, 2011

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Up and Running

MARCH 9, 2016

Louis, Missouri. I’m not saying these are the only four cities you should consider starting a business in—I, myself, started a business in Columbia, Missouri—but I am saying there are a few factors that can determine whether the city you choose will build you up or bring you down.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Bert Doerhoff, the creator of this article, is the founder and owner of Accubiz, an accounting firm based out of Jefferson City, Missouri. He was also appointed to the Advisory Council to the Missouri Director of Revenue. Steve Jobs – Charisma can take you far.

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Venture Chronicles

MARCH 18, 2015

PS- If Starbucks is serious about race relations in America, put a Starbucks in Ferguson Missouri and contribute generously to the rebuilding of that city where white and black residents are paying the price for shameful yellow journalism built on a hands-up-don’t-shoot lie.

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Gust

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Centennial (Missouri). This summer I conducted our third annual survey of the pre-money valuation of pre-revenue companies recently funded by angel groups in North America. Access to our 2010 and 2011 surveys can be found at 2011 Valuation Survey of North American Angel Investor Groups. We received data from thirty groups of the fifty angel groups from whom we requested data. For the first time, we asked for data from specific business sectors, as follows: All pre-revenue deals.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 5, 2013

Back in 1896, executives at the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway were looking for a way to gin up some excitement, build awareness, and gain some customers who would be willing to buy tickets to Texas. Of course the passes were only good for use on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

He is also Missouri’s former Secretary of State, and the president of an organization called Let America Vote. He is also a candidate for the mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, and we’re gonna talk about his book called Outside the Wire: Ten Lessons I’ve Learned in Every Day Courage. John Jantsch: So you kind of touched on this, you’re running for mayor in Kansas City, Missouri.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 3, 2018

Not only will we be out more but we are ramping up our impact in the community by supporting an organization such as CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) in South Central Missouri by becoming a volunteer for children. It’s a new year and right after the ball drops, it’s time to go to work.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Sandford held that African Americans, free or slaves, could not be considered American citizens and undid the Missouri Compromise. The rapid pace of innovation and the constantly exploding collection of possibilities is a major contributor to the fun we all have in digital jobs.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 5, 2017

Let us count the ways… A Missouri University of Science and Technology study used eye-tracking to determine that website visitors needed a mere 180 ms to form a first impression.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 6, 2012

When viewing a website, it takes users less than two-tenths of a second to form a first impression, according to an eye-tracking research conducted at Missouri University of Science and Technology. Eyetracking and research have studied how people look at websites.

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Jeff Hilimire

MARCH 26, 2018

After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Voss joined the FBI, where his career as a hostage negotiator brought him face-to-face with a range of criminals, including bank robbers and terrorists. My goal in 2018 is to read 52 books. Here is a list of all the books I’ve read so far this year. Each book is ranked on a 5-star scale (5 is best). * Never Split the Difference. I’ve always wanted to read a book on negotiating.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 9, 2011

The company is headquartered in Creve Coeur, Missouri. As every month, VC Cafe is re-posting the “Invest in Israel” Newsletter, published by the investment promotion center of Israel’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor , which offers many helpful tools for prospecting investors.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

John Jantsch : I’m speaking with Sloane and Casey Simmons, co-founders of Stuff, a retail gift store in Kansas City, Missouri. At a Store Called Stuff It’s About So Much More Than the Stuff! written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 28, 2010

They placed aerial reconnaissance cameras on the balloons and ran a series of test programs (code names of GOPHER, MOBY DICK, GRANDSON and GRAYBACK) launching 640 balloons from New Mexico, Montana, the West Coast, Missouri and Georgia. In the 1950’s the U.S. Military and the CIA enlisted balloons (some as tall as a 40-story building) as weapons systems targeting the Soviet Union.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 24, 2017

It was established to honor Ewing Marion Kauffman, a billionaire entrepreneur from Kansas City, Missouri — but it’s impact is felt all over the country and all of the world.

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ConversionXL

MAY 29, 2014

This is the conclusion from researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology who used eye tracking software and infrared cameras to monitor student’s eye movements as they scanned different elements of educational web pages such as menu, logo, images, social icons and the like.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The issue was that every time the candidates would interrupt each other, they weren’t actively listening to each other, which was reflected each time Anderson Cooper or Martha Raddatz had to tell them to take a step back and calm down in Missouri, or how often you could hear Charles Wallace stammering in the background yesterday evening. Image Source: NY Daily News. We’ve never experienced a U.S. presidential race like the one we’re living through today.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

For example, when going to New York to Las Vegas, you may map stops in Ohio, Missouri, and Colorado. The last time you needed to drive to a place you had never been before, what did you do?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 5, 2013

My hometown, Kansas City, was founded at the confluence of the Missouri and Kansas Rivers and the visual of these two powerful channels coming together, to form something even more potent, suggests the perfect metaphor for how community prospers and grows.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 14, 2013

Had we tried to raise money as a bootstrapped startup in Missouri, I suspect we would have struggled. This is a guest post by Wade Foster , co-founder and CEO of Zapier, which originally appeared on his blog. You can follow Wade’s writing on his site or the Zapier blog.

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