Posts made in September, 2014

Six Questions for Ginger Imster of Arch Grants

Posted by on Sep 26, 2014 in Featured Stories, Innovation Tuesday | 0 comments

Click here on Tuesday, September 30 at 10:50 am Central to hear Ginger Imster on KMOX Radio’s Charlie Brennan Show A full house is expected on the evening of October 11, as supporters of the St. Louis Arch Grants program meet in the ballroom of the Hyatt Regency Hotel in downtown St. Louis for the second Arch Grants gala. It will be a night to celebrate successes, and to look ahead to the future of the nonprofit organization, which offers $50,000 grants to startup businesses in exchange for moving their businesses to St. Louis for at least a year. We had a some questions about Arch...

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St. Louis Bat Maker Wants Ballplayers to a Get a Grip (And Reduce Injuries)

Posted by on Sep 18, 2014 in Featured Stories, Innovation Tuesday | 0 comments

Click here to hear Grady Phelan’s interview with KMOX Radio’s Charlie Brennan Major League Baseball players are well known creatures of habit. Babe Ruth and Willie Mays always stepped on second base as they trotted off the field for the dugout. Before batting, Hall of Fame third baseman Wade Boggs would scrawl the Hebrew symbol chai into the dirt, even though he isn’t Jewish. Former Cardinal and current Cincinnati Reds player Skip Schumaker is renowned for stepping out of the batter’s box and compulsively adjusting his batting gloves before each pitch. So to ask a major...

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Keeping Ahead of Concussions With a St. Louis Startup

Posted by on Sep 10, 2014 in Featured Stories, Innovation Tuesday | 0 comments

Click here to hear Ben Harvatine’s interview with KMOX Radio’s Charlie Brennan Ben Harvatine remembers well the incident that prompted him to develop a device aimed at detecting potential concussions in young athletes. At the time of the episode, however, Harvatine wasn’t clearly remembering much of anything at all. It happened during a wrestling practice, when Harvatine was a student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2010. “I don’t know the moment that I got my actual concussion,” said Harvatine, in a promotional video for Jolt Sensor. “Between dehydration, a boiling...

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