Posts by jbafaro

T-REx looking to widen its footprint in 2015

Posted by on Jan 2, 2015 in Featured Stories, Innovation Tuesday | 0 comments

T-REx wants to leave a bigger footprint. With its move from one downtown St. Louis location to another accomplished in the year just completed, 2015 goals for the St. Louis startup hub include a potential expansion – both at its physical location and in its partnerships.  So says Dr. Patty Hagen, who was appointed the first full-time executive director of T-REx in May. Hear Dr. Patty Hagen and Charlie Brennan on KMOX Radio at 10:50am Central time Tuesday, Jan. 6.  1120am in St. Louis or kmox.com T-REx – short for technology regional entrepreneur exchange – originally began doing...

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DiversifyUs Founder “Underestimated How Much the Idea Would Resonate.”

Posted by on Dec 12, 2014 in Featured Stories, Innovation Tuesday | 0 comments

Nearly one month after he and a team of developers created a new app and website designed to connect people of different backgrounds, the founder of St. Louis startup DiversifyUs says he “underestimated how much the idea would resonate with people.” In the last four weeks, Daniel McFarland, his team and their idea have been featured in a bevy of Internet, newspaper, television and radio news reports, a phenomenon McFarland calls, “quite eventful, to put it mildly. Calling it crazy feels more accurate.” Photo of Daniel McFarland courtesy Matt Menietti Click here to...

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Startup Adds Flare to Women’s Sports

Posted by on Nov 19, 2014 in Featured Stories, Innovation Tuesday | 0 comments

Click  here to hear Triflare featured on KMOX Radio’s Charlie Brennan Show Every innovative entrepreneur has experienced that “aha” moment:  the exact point in time when they realize there has to be a “better way”, or, a better product or service to handle a frustrating situation. For Andrea Robertson of St. Louis, that moment came in summer of 2009.  An avid triathlete, Robertson was queing up at the starting line for her next race, and, she says, “I was wearing a men’s trisuit.  There wasn’t an option for a feminine alternative.” So she created one. Three years later, Robertson...

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Five Questions About the 2014 St. Louis Startup Weekend.

Posted by on Oct 31, 2014 in Featured Stories, Innovation Tuesday | 0 comments

Click here to hear Matt Menietti’s 11/4/2014 interview with KMOX Radio’s Charlie Brennan The T-REX building, the co-working space located  at 911  Washington Avenue in downtown St. Louis, is a high-energy place just about every day, serving as the home base for more than 100 innovative local startup companies. Starting Friday night, November 14 and running through the rest of that weekend until Sunday night, November 16, the T-Rex energy level will be turned up several notches higher, as the building plays host to another Startup Weekend. The 54-hour event brings together...

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A St. Louis Innovator and A Potential Tool in the Battle Against Cancer

Posted by on Oct 25, 2014 in Featured Stories, Innovation Tuesday | 0 comments

Click here to hear Lu Alleruzzo’s interview on KMOX Radio’s Charlie Brennan Show A cure for cancer. For the nearly two million people in the U.S. who are diagnosed with cancer each year, those four words can elicit a sense of great hope.  But researchers know the words must be used with caution, as the world medical community continues its search for a cure to a disease that has existed for hundreds of years. That is why St. Louis entrepreneur Lu Alleruzzo is very precise in his thoughts about using the words “cancer cure” in conjunction with a cancer vaccine that is under...

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