Submissions from the community

Funding for API Innovation Center Reaches $20M, Opens Lab on UMSL Campus

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Mike Fabrizi
4 Min Read

How Saint Louis Zoo’s Wildcare Park Benefits Our Region

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Mike Fabrizi
8 Min Read

Active Pharmaceuticals Ingredients Innovation Center (APIIC) is Reshoring a Vital Industry and Restoring Health Security

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Mike Fabrizi
13 Min Read

Shared Services in the St. Louis AgTech and BioTech Innovation Districts

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Mike Fabrizi
11 Min Read

Remembering Our Beloved Community Builder, Patty Hagen

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Jonathan Allen
8 Min Read

Putting the Health of the Region’s Tech Economy into Perspective

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Mike Fabrizi
2 Min Read

Snapshot of St. Louis Tech Economy and Region

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Mike Fabrizi
15 Min Read

St. Louis Manufacturing: Tradition and New Direction

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Mike Fabrizi
9 Min Read

Economic Complexity Data for St. Louis

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Mike Fabrizi
5 Min Read

What Does Economic Complexity Mean? And Who Cares?

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Mike Fabrizi
3 Min Read

Happy Outcomes Not Guaranteed: The Great Lakes Megaregion

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Mike Fabrizi
3 Min Read

BioSTL’s Bioscience Labor Market Analysis: some Good News and Good Insights

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Mike Fabrizi
2 Min Read

6 Reasons Why Impact Investing Aligns Venture Capital with Startup Ecosystems

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Jonathan Allen
6 Min Read

You Need To Pitch LOTS of Investors

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Nate Matherson
3 Min Read

Don’t Confuse Your Net Worth With Your Self Worth

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2 Min Read

Divest Yourself of Golden Handcuffs

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2 Min Read

The Founder Freedom Fallacy

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2 Min Read

Soulard Podcaster on Passion, Place and Purpose

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Jonathan Allen
8 Min Read

How Did the Pandemic Affect Marketing?

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Jonathan Allen
10 Min Read

NFT’s Impoverished Vision of The Future

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Jonathan Allen
7 Min Read

Congratulations, You’re Not Dead

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Jonathan Allen
3 Min Read

Entrepreneur Advice: 7 Life Skills You Should Learn In Your 20s

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Zach Errant
3 Min Read

Rest In Power, John Lewis

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Dick Fleming
3 Min Read

NCJWSTL Is Celebrating 125 Years of Creating Programs to Solve Problems

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Ellen Alper
3 Min Read

Social Distancing Worked in St. Louis 100 Years Ago; the Same Public Health Policy the Entire World is Adopting Now

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Jonathan Allen
6 Min Read

5 Tips to Make Sure You’re Not Getting Used by Social Media

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EQ Community Network
4 Min Read
The Best of 2019 // Episode 0093

The Best of the Bourbon Friday Show 2019

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Erik Lutenegger
4 Min Read

Mentoring Is A Win-Win Experience

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Nina Caldwell
3 Min Read

Ask an Architect: How Should I Plan My Next Office Space?

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Chris Mrozewski
3 Min Read

9 Ways to Get Involved in the St. Louis Startup Community

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EQ Staff, Jonathan Allen
4 Min Read

5 VR/AR STL Association Members Share Their First Experience That Hooked Them On XR

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Jonathan Allen
5 Min Read

Why You Should Risk It All During Your 20’s (and Join a Startup)

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Zach Errant
3 Min Read

If You’re Using Sponsored Content You Need to Make Sure You’re on the Right Side of the FTC

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Theresa Mullineaux
4 Min Read

150 Episodes of Dreaming Big, Having Grit, and Identifying Opportunities

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Christy Maxfield
2 Min Read

Growth is About Making Vision-Shaping Shifts for this Dynamic Entrepreneur

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Christy Maxfield
< 1 Min Read

Covering the Delta Between Grant Funding and the Needs of Our Non-profit’s Service Community

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Jason Seward
3 Min Read

Six Years of Storytelling Places Humans of St. Louis at the Intersection of Art, Activism, and Entrepreneurship

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Christy Maxfield
2 Min Read

Why Startups Should Consider Litigation Risk

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Joe Guffey
2 Min Read

Why We Rebranded Our Digital Marketing Agency

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Jenny Bristow
3 Min Read

How to Automate Your Startup’s Bookkeeping

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Jacob Sheldon
7 Min Read

Finding Another Entrepreneur to Ask Advice

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Ryan O'Neil
4 Min Read

State of the St. Louis “Techforce”: Jobs are Plentiful but Employer’s Hiring Practices Remain in Stasis

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Daniel Fogarty
3 Min Read

7 Regional Imperatives to Strengthen the Impact of our Entrepreneurship Ecosystem

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Charli Cooksey
4 Min Read

St. Louis Business Community Stands to Win from 2020 Census Going Digital

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Caroline Fan
3 Min Read

Opinion on LinkedIn Pulse: Square Move Adds Another Key Anchor to “Gigabyte Corridor”​ in St. Louis

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Dick Fleming
< 1 Min Read

The First Step in Making Your Startup’s First Hire

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Ryan O'Neil
4 Min Read

Experience Inflation is Killing Our Talent Pool and Here’s What We Can do About it

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Tony Bryan
4 Min Read

Sharing My Gratitude With Everyone Who Makes TEDxGatewayArch Possible in St. Louis

Mich Hancock
4 Min Read

Innovative Strategies to Get St. Louisans Hired and Companies Fully Staffed

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Kathy Bernard
3 Min Read

Fit Small Business Ranks St. Louis Number 2 for “Best Cities For Entrepreneurs”

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Dick Fleming
2 Min Read

Happy #StarWarsDay

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Jonathan Allen
< 1 Min Read

21 Questions that Help You Pursue the Right Funding Options for Your Startup

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Ched Wagner
5 Min Read

Spotlighting St. Louis Companies Solving Their Talent Shortages

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Kathy Bernard
< 1 Min Read

What if St. Louis Addressed the Tech Talent Shortage Better Than Any Other City?

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Kathy Bernard
2 Min Read

Connecting St. Louis’ Gigabyte Corridor to Central Business District Shows Placemaking Potential

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Dick Fleming
3 Min Read

Some Kids Just Aren’t Meant for College (Just as Long as We are Talking About Your Kids, Not Mine)

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J.C. McKissen
3 Min Read

Don’t Drown in “Should”

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Rebecca Brian Pan
3 Min Read

Step Up Your Social Selling in 2019 With These 4 Linkedin Outreach Tactics

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Josh Schwartz
4 Min Read

The “I’m No Different” Paradox

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LaShana Lewis
6 Min Read
T-REX Impact Report

How Relocating to T-Rex Brought Engility Closer to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

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EQ Staff, Jonathan Allen
2 Min Read

Partnership for Economic Impact: Financial Empowerment and Sustainability

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Kalin Pearce
4 Min Read

Social Entrepreneurs are Symbiotic With Traditional For-Profit Business

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Ted Floros
4 Min Read

Purchase with Purpose: Meet OneOddBird

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Tiffany Chimal
4 Min Read

The Next Frontier in Leadership Development

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Philip Penrose
4 Min Read

3 Learnings from the “Old School Vs. New School” St. Louis Sales Accelerator Event

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Kristie Jones
3 Min Read

Your Enemy Is Indecision: How To Reduce Sales Cycle Times & Increase Close Rates

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Josh Schwartz
6 Min Read

St. Louis Needs A Sales Skills Accelerator

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Nick Robison
3 Min Read

3 Ways (and 1 Huge Context) to Break the Investing Spiral that Works Against Diversity in Tech

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LaShana Lewis
6 Min Read

Co-Working Becomes Mainstay as Freelancing is on the Rise

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LaShana Lewis
2 Min Read

Integrity Drives Opportunity: It’s OK to Let Your Personal Values Influence the Direction of Your Business

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Ellie Scott
4 Min Read

With SLU’s Big Ideas Challenge Our Minds Are Fixed On the Future of St. Louis

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Ken Oliff
2 Min Read

Decision Making Made Easy: Follow the Next Right Thing

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Dixie Gillaspie
6 Min Read

Social Entrepreneurship More About the Ends than the Means

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Kalin Pearce
< 1 Min Read

IoT in Agriculture Makes Heartland Tech Really Sexy

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Guy Weitzman
3 Min Read

The Real Epicenter of the Talent Crisis

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Dixie Gillaspie
4 Min Read

Go Fast. Go Far. Why Every Young Developer Should Attend a Conference

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Lamar Woods
5 Min Read

Scrappy Marketing Tactics for Growing Your Bootstrapped Business

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Emily Muhoberac
3 Min Read

OPO Startups Members Have Raised $10M and Created a Combined Payroll of $12M. Here’s How We Did It.

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Megan McKissen
3 Min Read

Entrepreneurs Shouldn’t Overlook The Low-Income Market

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LaShana Lewis
3 Min Read

Investing in Apprenticeships In Cybersecurity Is A Safe Bet

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Tony Bryan
2 Min Read

Intelligent Messaging Is Getting Smarter, Everyday

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Michael Lamb
4 Min Read
Invite Details

St. Louis’ SLAM! Agency Opens Office In Miami CIC

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Anita Hale
3 Min Read

Farmers Are Businesspeople, Too

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Matt Jeter
3 Min Read
Guy Weitzman Atomation

Meet Me in St. Louis: Maintaining Team Cohesion Between the Midwest and the Middle East

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Guy Weitzman
3 Min Read

Stop Treating Your Failure Like it was the Ultimate Warrior

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J.C. McKissen
3 Min Read

Building a Fair Trade Clothing Brand in St. Louis: Meet Beautiful Mexicana

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Tiffany Chimal
4 Min Read

Terrible Public Policy is Keeping the St. Louis Region from Achieving its American Dream

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J.C. McKissen
3 Min Read
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Venture For America Fellows Are Sticking Around and Crushing It In St. Louis (Just Look at Their Job Titles)

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Victor Mendez
6 Min Read

Farmers Aren’t Just the Backbone of America. They’re People Too.

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Matt Jeter
3 Min Read

Could St. Louis Become the Next Startup Nation?

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Guy Weitzman
3 Min Read

Innovation Hall is Emblematic Of All Our Achievements In Building The St. Louis Startup Ecosystem

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Trevor Tune
5 Min Read

Ireland’s Dogpatch Labs Provides Global Model for Corporate-Startup Collaboration

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Tanya Yatzeck
6 Min Read

Last Week Amazon Announced It’s Coming to St. Charles County. Here’s What It Means for Our Region.

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J.C. McKissen
3 Min Read

Brian Lunt and Brett Kline on Collaborative Coworking for Media Makers

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Drew Davis
2 Min Read
VentureBeat’s BLUEPRINT 2018 Conference

7 Awesome Moments from VentureBeat’s #BLUEPRINT2018 Conference

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Jonathan Allen
5 Min Read

You Are (So Much) More Than Your Business Cards

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Tyler Kelley
5 Min Read

3 Strategies for Midwest Entrepreneurs Looking for Startup Funding

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Nate Matherson
4 Min Read

5 Things Startup Entrepreneurs Can Learn from a Chef

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Ellen Prinzi
3 Min Read

Drop By Drop: How Rapid Growth Killed My First Startup

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Ben Mizes
6 Min Read

Startup Growth: Slow and Steady — Or Fast and Furious?

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Jonathan Allen
11 Min Read