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PostAug 16, 2013#26

Faster on ramp to the information superhighway
As Jason Deem announces the completion of his latest idea at Nebula Coworking, he’s hoping his clients might be getting a taste of a faster future – fiber.

Though much smaller in scale than Google’s Kansas City project, the gigabit-ready fiber connection unveiled at Deem's establishment in south St. Louis’s Cherokee neighborhood last week reflects the same desire for high-speed linkages.
https://www.stlbeacon.org/#!/content/32 ... ber_081213
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PostAug 26, 2013#27

From the Wall Street Journal blog - Jim MecKelvey - St. Louis's one man economic development machine starts a financial services accelerator

http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/201 ... sixthirty/
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PostAug 27, 2013#28

^ McKelvey was just on KMOX with Charlie Brennan. Interesting dude. Roofer. Glass Blower. Tech Entrepreneur. City Rebuilder.
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PostAug 27, 2013#29

Forbes has released a list of the big 12 venture capital firms in the Midwest - St Louis has 2 of them - Pretty good showing - Chicago has 3 -

http://www.forbes.com/sites/karstenstra ... e-players/
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PostAug 27, 2013#30

Jack Dorsey’s Plan to Save America’s Struggling Cities

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/20 ... ing-cities
It’s something we believe very, very strongly in. My father, when he was 19, owned a pizza restaurant. My mother owned a coffee store in St. Louis. My great-grandmother owned a convenience store in St. Louis, and all were central focus points in the community.
There's a (sold-out) event taking place at the Casa Loma ballroom on Cherokee 8/29.
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PostAug 28, 2013#31

Watch Jim McKelvey on CNBC this morning talk about @SixThirtyHQ, St. Louis, and @LaunchcodeSTL. -
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PostAug 28, 2013#32

Great clip and great exposure for our start-up/tech/financial sectors. How lucky are we to have some one like Jim McKelvey beating the drum for our community?

Simply listening to him speak leaves me wanting to work for him.
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PostAug 28, 2013#33

^I too get the impression that McKelvey is a good guy.

While a lot of tech-minded people are contributing to St. Louis' tech surge, it's great to have McKelvey, Dorsey and Gabe Lozano (Lockerdome) ubiquitously in the national press regarding St. Louis' tech efforts.
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PostAug 29, 2013#34

Missouri number 3 in tech growth. A regular STLicon Valley.

http://www.cio.com/article/738463/Top_1 ... =ifwartcio
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PostSep 04, 2013#35

Aisle411 gets a big investment.

http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/blog ... ml?ana=twt
http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/blog ... um=twitter
Aisle411, the in-store navigation app developer based in St. Louis, has completed a $6.3 million Series A funding round led by local venture capital firm Cultivation Capital, aisle411 officials said Wednesday.
The capital campaign is one of the largest a St. Louis tech company has seen in years.
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PostSep 06, 2013#36

From IT World - How post-industrial St. Louis made itself a startup hotbed

http://m.itworld.com/it-management/3716 ... repreneurs

PostSep 06, 2013#37

From BJ -

McKelvey to Forbes: ‘Massive opportunity’ in St. Louis’ fintech space

http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/blog ... ml?ana=twt
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PostSep 12, 2013#38

LockerDome's Gabe Lozano talks up St. Louis in the Wall Street Journal:

http://blogs.wsj.com/accelerators/2013/ ... -st-louis/
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PostSep 16, 2013#39

Pretty slow on the board today. There was a great article on Jim McKelvey in the post-dispatch today. There is a lot of positive momentum within the tech/digital space which I believe will have a very positive long-term impact on jobs and residency downtown. It will probably take 5-years to make a significant impact although that could be accelerated by a large exit from lockerdome, yurbuds, aisle411, or some other soon to be discovered company. Capital innovators portfolio has created 350 jobs in a little over 2 years and many of these companies are in the very early stages of growth. Now if we can only stop the exit of companies life AT&T we might be able to show real employment and downtown residency growth before the end of this decade.
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PostSep 17, 2013#40

Impressive

Wash U startup beats out teams from MIT, Berkeley for grant

http://m.bizjournals.com/stlouis/blog/B ... -17&r=full
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PostSep 19, 2013#41

I see St Louis' economy diversifying before our very eyes. Yes, we have a way to go to recover our jobs, but we are well on the way.
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PostSep 19, 2013#42

Jack Dorsey: The Pride of St. Louis



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PostSep 19, 2013#43

There's so much good STL tech/business pub these days it's just intoxicating.

Jack Dorsey: St. Louis on the cusp of revival

http://m.bizjournals.com/stlouis/blog/B ... -19&r=full

St. Louis among best college towns for entrepreneurs


http://m.bizjournals.com/stlouis/blog/B ... -19&r=full
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PostSep 19, 2013#44

^I agree.

When something negative or a setback happens for the region - as they will - St. Louis needs to remember all of the positive.

St. Louis has too many positive things going for it so it needs to build on them.
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PostSep 19, 2013#45

Does anyone know what our approximate baseline is for current tech jobs downtown and in the city/region? What would be considered successful growth? Would say 5,000 new tech jobs downtown in the next 5 years be a modest goal? Overly ambitious?
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PostSep 20, 2013#46

I have to admit Jack has done a great job and you have to appreciate him talking up St. Louis every chance he gets. But I still can't too excited because the end of the day the investors who made Jack's ideas happen have also resulted in Twitter and now Square spending millions investing and revitalizing a San Francisco neighborhood, have resulted in 100's of jobs created in San Francisco, have resulted in millions more invested in the same San Francisco neighborhood that has resulted in part contributed to San Fran's huge 7.4% gdp growth. One of the highest among US Cities. When it comes to meat and potatoes for jobs and economic growth just can't excited no matter how many front page stories.
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PostSep 21, 2013#47

https://thestrangeloop.com/ conference just finished another successful conference at the Peabody opera house.

If you don't know about it, StrangeLoop attracts over 1,000 programmers from all over the country (and some from overseas). The first day focuses on new programming languages and the next couple of days have a mix of heavy technology and interesting applications.

They had a party at the city museum last night and a BBQ at T-Rex today.

I mention this because this conference is a big boost to STL's image in the technology world. The local community is getting a lot stronger due to meetups, but there really aren't any other important conferences that come here.

Another great thing about Strange loop is that it reflects the recent trend of the regions' tech center of gravity shifting back to downtown after heading out west.
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PostSep 21, 2013#48

Please come and support the st louis startup scene by attending startupconnection at the Science Center on October 3rd. 60 companies will be represented in the areas of technology, bio, education, and consumer products. Over $135,000 cash prizes will be awarded that night. Last years event had 650 people in attendance and we are shooting for 1,000 this year. The event lasts from 4:00 until 8:30 pm. Check it out at http://www.startupconnection.org
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PostSep 24, 2013#49

Charlie Brennan on KMOX had a good interview with a co-founder of a start-up Lumate that is in downtown Saint Louis, I believe at T-Rex still. Good story that hopefully we'll see a lot of.... the 24 yr. old and couple others at Missouri S&T got together and their fledgling enterprise got an Arch grant and other funding and now have 12 full-time workers downtown and are hiring some students at S&T to help with the pipeline.

http://www.idcprojects.com/

They do mobile ad optimization and cited an example of the ads they did for Urban Chestnut where Cards fans at the game see mobile ads for UC beer available at certain sections. Nothing earth-shattering on its own, but hopefully they grow and stay in downtown and surrounded by similar successes and energy.

Does anyone know whether there are any job development goals on these various initiatives like T-REX or Arch Grants, etc.? Does the city/county have job targets to be created?
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PostOct 02, 2013#50

And here's what's happening in your neck of the woods.......Monsanto buys a big data firm.

TECH CRUNCH: Monsanto Acquires Weather Big Data Company Climate Corporation For $1.1B
St. Louis Business Journal: Monsanto to acquire California tech company

The Climate Corporation will remain based in Silicon Valley, Hopefully, an outpost will open in St. Louis.
Good morning everyone. Today’s big acquisition, a huge agritech exit: Bio tech company Monsanto has bought Climate Corporation for approximately $1.1 billion. While the Monsanto press release says $930 million, we’re hearing from investors that the actual price is past the $1 billion mark because part of the all-cash deal is still in escrow.

This is a pretty cunning move. It comes on the same day that Monsanto — the world’s largest argibusiness company — reported a larger-than-expected, increased 4th quarter loss, of $249 million, or $0.47 per share.
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