Cortex Rolls On. Next Stop: Attracting TechShop
Click here to hear Dennis Lower’s February 25 interview with KMOX Radio’s Charlie Brennan As they continue their mission to build an epicenter of innovation in midtown St. Louis, leaders of the Cortex innovation community are hoping this week to create another in a series of seismic ripples — by attracting to the district a facility aimed at reaching amateur and professional inventors. Thursday, February 27, Cortex leaders will host officials from TechShop, a do-it-yourself “maker shop”, designed to let people of varying skill levels gain access to industrial tools,...
Read MoreBack in the Mix in St. Louis: Innovator Allison Carmen
Click here to hear Charlie Brennan of KMOX Radio’s 2/18 interview with Material Mix Founder Allison Carmen Allison Carmen has said goodbye to Chile, and hello to Chilly. The 30-year-old Oregon native and St. Louis entrepreneur, who last summer won a global startup accelerator competition that brought companies to the South American nation for six months, arrived back in St. Louis from Santiago last week. The average high temperature in Chile in February is 84 degrees. Like most of the United States, St. Louis has been experiencing unseasonal cold during the month, with low...
Read MoreSirenGPS Aims to Signal Changes in 9-1-1
Click here to hear Charlie Brennan of KMOX Radio’s interview with Paul Rauner It’s estimated as many as 240 million calls are made to U.S. emergency 9-1-1 numbers each year, with about 70 percent of those calls placed from cellular telephones. Two of those millions of calls have entrepreneur Paul Rauner calling for improvements in the current 9-1-1 system – improvements he says his St. Louis startup can provide. In explaining the need for the services offered by startup SirenGPS, Rauner directs reporters first to an incident from July of 2013, when an elderly Illinois man died of...
Read MoreA Real Toy Story: St. Louis University Entrepreneur Lachlan Johnson
Click here to hear KMOX Radio’s Charlie Brennan’s 2/4/2014 interview with Lachlan Johnson Seven years ago, Lachlan Johnson, along with her older sister and younger brother, built a successful business by creating a combination toy and fashion accessory for kids that is now carried online, and in hundreds of retail stores across the country. Johnson sold that business last year, and now, she and her brother are planning to create their own toy company, one that will offer toys to pre-teens, but will target an older demographic as well. That’s pretty ambitious stuff for just...
Read MoreAthlete Protection, in a Nutshell
Click here to hear Jeremiah Raber’s interview on KMOX Radio in St. Louis In late December of 2013, Connor Knapp, a promising goaltender defending the nets for a minor league affiliate of the National Hockey League’s Buffalo Sabres, tweeted a photo that left sports fans and casual observers squirming in their seats. The hockey player had shared a picture of a piece of his equipment that had been shattered by the impact of a flying puck. It was the piece of equipment that protects a male athlete’s most vulnerable and sensitive area – and we’re not talking about his ego. Whereas some...
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