An #STLMade Welcome for GEOINT Symposium
Eyes of the Global Geospatial Sector Focus on St. Louis as City Prepares an #STLMade Welcome for...
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Author: Paul Riat
FastDemocracy dives into city and local government
Legislative tracking platform FastDemocracy is taking their federal and state oriented service and diving into the maelstrom of city government, starting in St. Louis. After that, they’ll start rolling out one city after another – based on a few criteria.
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St. Louis loses a startup to Paducah – Is the startup game ‘zero sum?’
St. Louis is losing an early stage tech startup to Paducah, which may be a trend as smaller cities learn the value of – and throw some seed money at – early stage tech startups.
In the recently published report ‘Economic Impact of Missouri Startups’ it was found tech startups create an average of 863 jobs each year – and they’re mostly high paying jobs. Programs like Arch Grants have attracted high growth potential startups from other parts of the country by offering founders $50,000 (equity-free) on the condition that they move to St. Louis.
Other cities are taking that model and running with it. 1st50K is one such competition. It’s been pulling startups like SwipeSum, SportsTrace and UpSwot to Cape Girardeau, Missouri for a couple years – and it branched out to Paducah, Kentucky this spring. It recently announced the first Paducah cohort.
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Tech startup bringing data to medical marijuana
Marijuana has compounds, cannabinoids and terpenes, that can be measured and quantified in every batch of marijuana or edible. These compounds have effects, but when it comes to treating specific conditions patients and healthcare providers don’t have guidance about which compounds and concentration is effective.
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