Posts made in February, 2014

Sculpting a New Space in Interior Design

Posted by on Feb 27, 2014 in Featured Stories, Innovation Tuesday | 0 comments

Click here to hear Brian Wideman’s 3/4/2014 interview with KMOX Radio’s Charlie Brennan   If you’ve ever set out to give a room in your home a makeover, you know your options are limited when it comes to creating a professional look. Hire an interior designer?  Sure, but be prepared to pay up to $200 per hour for his or her expertise. Go it on your own?  Yep.  But only if you don’t mind starting from scratch, or maybe picking a few ideas off HGTV, then spending long days traipsing through furniture stores, paint stores and other retail outlets in the hope you find something...

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Cortex Rolls On. Next Stop: Attracting TechShop

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

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,...

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Back in the Mix in St. Louis: Innovator Allison Carmen

Posted by on Feb 13, 2014 in Featured Stories, Innovation Tuesday | 0 comments

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...

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SirenGPS Aims to Signal Changes in 9-1-1

Posted by on Feb 5, 2014 in Featured Stories, Innovation Tuesday | 0 comments

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...

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