Posts by jbafaro

Using Your Graematter to Navigate the Regulatory Process

Posted by on Oct 8, 2013 in Featured Stories, Innovation Tuesday | 0 comments

Click here to hear Melissa Walker’s interview on KMOX Innovation Tuesdays segment with Charlie Brennan on 10/8/2013   Melissa Walker admits she has a passion for data, and a flair for managing it. As a college biology instructor in Texas in the 1980’s, Walker found it a challenge to track all of the data surrounding the daily performance and test results of her 300 students, so she created a computer program to help manage the information. Later, she built a successful, 27-year career at companies such as Johnson & Johnson, Bausch & Lomb and Stereotaxis, helping bring new...

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St. Louis Startup is a Manufacturing Matchmaker

Posted by on Oct 1, 2013 in Featured Stories, Innovation Tuesday | 0 comments

Hear Manufacturers’ Inventory co-founder Brian Kohlberg’s interview with KMOX Radio’s Charlie Brennan aired 10/1/2013 here.  Scroll to appropriate link after clicking.    In a warehouse at a large manufacturing company in St. Louis, Harry sits at his desk and contemplates how he will dispose of dozens of boxes of new, unused and no longer needed electrical components. Nearly 2,000 miles away in San Diego, Sally, a purchasing agent for a small west coast manufacturer, is in need of those same electrical parts, but knows her budget won’t allow her to purchase the...

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Ads Made Mobile and Relevant Via Lumate

Posted by on Sep 24, 2013 in Featured Stories, Innovation Tuesday | 0 comments

Click here to hear Lumate Co-Founder Quentin Ortega’s interview with KMOX Radio’s Charlie Brennan on the 9/24/13 edition of KMOX Innovation Tuesdays. Scroll to “Quentin Ortega” audio.   They didn’t know it, but fans who attended the seventeen Cardinal baseball games played at St. Louis’ Busch Stadium this past  August were taking part in a test – the results of which were being watched very closely by St. Louis startup company Lumate. Lumate deals in location-based, context-driven mobile advertising. What’s that you ask?  The Busch Stadium example helps with the...

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St. Louis Startup MediBeacon Offers Potential Game Changing Medical Technology

Posted by on Sep 12, 2013 in Featured Stories, Innovation Tuesday | 0 comments

Hear MediBeacon c0-founder Steve Hanley’s interview with KMOX Radio host Charlie Brennan from Tuesday, September 17, 2013 here! After clicking, Scroll to appropriate link When a cardiologist provides care to his patient, he has at his disposal a number of technologies that allow him to monitor the heart as it is functioning, and prescribe the appropriate treatment immediately. The same can be said for a doctor who needs to monitor the lung function of a patient. For a physician who is treating a patient suspected of kidney disease, the mission is more complex.  For despite all of the...

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No Bones About It: RoverTown Aims to Be the Big Dog in College Couponing

Posted by on Sep 6, 2013 in Featured Stories, Innovation Tuesday | 0 comments

Click here to listen to Jeffry Harrison’s 9/10/13 interview with Charlie Brennan on KMOX Radio/St. Louis  If you are the parent of a college student, or if you are a college student yourself, you know just how expensive the university experience can be.  When it comes to cost, sometimes it’s enough to make you want to cry out, “hey, throw me a bone here!” Enter RoverTown, a growing St. Louis startup that, in fact, incorporates the slogan, “throwin’ you bones” into its distinctive light blue dog bone logo and other literature.  The “bones” concept is prominently displayed all around the...

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