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Gremln, Norse Graduate from Mock Angels
ITEN is very pleased to announce that two ventures have graduated from the Mock Angel Training program. Gremln (formerly Twaitter) and Norse Corporation were both approved for graduation at the July 20 Mock Angel session.
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UMSL Announces Internship Program
| UMSL, via IT Enterprises (ITE), has put together a program to help ITEN ventures find interns for the upcoming fall semester.
- The program involves paid or unpaid internships at your company. Your company would fund any paid positions.
- ITE will post the opportunities the IT Enterprises website, on the UMSL campus career services web site and notify other universities and colleges in the area.
- Resumes will come to ITE and we will forward them to your designated contact person for the position.
- Caitlin Reynolds, at IT Enterprises, will schedule interviews between you and any candidates you are interested in.
- Please contact Caitlin at itemanager@umsl.edu for more information and to request an intern for your venture. Be sure to identify yourself to her as an ITEN company.
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Capital Innovators Receives over 160 Applications St. Louis' new IT accelerator program is off to a fast start, with Capital Innovators announcing they have received many more applications than expected by the July 15 deadline. A majority of the applications have come from ventures in the St. Louis metro area, but many came from outside the region. Finalists will be notified soon and selected to attend a "pitch day" from which the 5 accelerator companies will be chosen. The accelerator companies will each receive $50,000 in investment from Capital Innovators and be put through a rigorous 12-week acceleration program. At the end of the program in December, the 5 companies will have the opportunity to present their ventures at a "Demo Day" to additional investors. The accelerator program, known as Start Up St. Louis, will run twice a year, enabling 10 IT ventures per year to benefit from the investment, mentoring and strategic relationships that Capital Innovators and their partners will provide. To learn more about the program, visit www.capitalinnovators.com. 
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New Angel Group Focusing on Financial Services Technology Companies 
St. Louis benefits tremendously by being the home of some of the nation's largest financial services firms. While these companies provide huge economic benefits to the region, St. Louis has the opportunity to further capitalize on this cluster of financial services talent to promote the growth of related start-ups. That is why FinServeTechAngels is forming. FinServe Tech Angels is a new group of financial services executives and entrepreneurs who invest in early stage financial services technology companies located throughout the Midwest. The momentum is building, and FinServe Tech Angels has received great interest from potential members, entrepreneurs, and economic development officials. We will host our first pitch meeting in September where three early-stage companies from across the Midwest will present to financial services executives interested in angel investing. The meeting date will be announced soon. This is a great opportunity for financial services professional to see firsthand the benefits of investing in early-stage companies through an angel group. FinServe Tech Angels has established a relationship with ITEN and will consider early stage technology companies that are involved in the financial services industry and have graduated from ITEN's Mock Angel program. FinServe Tech Angels is still recruiting investors to attend the September meeting. If you are an accredited investor with a financial services background interested in angel investing, please contact KyleWelborn. | |
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ITEN and IT Coalition Sponsor 2011 St Louis SecureWorld Expo
SecureWorld Expo conferences feature dynamic keynote addresses, conference tracks addressing the most current IT Security topics and offer CPE credits 'Certificate of Attendance'!
CURRENT AGENDA September 13-14, 2011
 Day One - William Hugh Murray headlines an informative opening keynote address titled "Essential Security Practices." William Hugh Murray is a management consultant and trainer in Information Assurance. He is also an associate professor at the Naval Postgraduate School.
Day Two - James Beeson presents "Social Networking and the Consumer Cloud - Are You Ready?" James Beeson is the CISO of GE Capital - Commercial Finance.
Conference tracks include: Compliance, Risk Management, Social Network Security, Business Continuity, Cloud Computing and much more!
TWO DAY CONFERENCE - $265 Use Discount Code STLITEN11 to save $100 off the regular price of registration ($265).
Conference Sessions, Conference Keynote Breakfast, Exhibits and Open Sessions (Includes Lunch & 12 CPE credits)
Join us September 13-14, 2011 at America's Center, St. Louis !
 
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Service Provider Spotlight
Growth Partner
Growth Partner is an online marketing company created by the founders of three different Inc. 500 businesses. Growth Partner's role in the development of an enterprise's online marketing strategy is more than just an afternoon of advice. Founders Brant Bukowsky, Nathaniel Broughton, and Brandon Laughridge are interested in staying with a company through its online marketing campaign and beyond, establishing a business relationship through the mutual interest of making money through effective online marketing.
Growth Partner does not seek opportunities to simply supply ITEN ventures with textbook search engine tactics, but rather to help them develop an effective and original online marketing strategy. This is achieved through a customizable combination of SEO (search engine optimization), PPC (pay per click), CRO (conversion rate optimization), social media marketing, and online reputation management. Growth Partner is proud to provide ITEN companies with expertise ranging across all of these online marketing and content monetization techniques. In certain cases, Growth Partner will consider an equity interest in addition to providing marketing services.
Growth Partner is happy to meet with members of ITEN interested in improving their online marketing prowess and establishing a strong web presence. For more information please contact Growth Partner through their website, www.growthpartner.com.
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Sponsor Spotlight
ITE Data Center Welcomes Startups
Innovative Technology Enterprises (ITE) is University of Missouri - St. Louis' high technology incubator. ITE opened for business in 2008 with their first tenant Binary Dock, now called Quodient. Another of ITE's initial tenants is ITEN who has been at ITE since April, 2008. Operating from the Office of Research Administration at UMSL, ITE's mission is to help high technology startup companies get going. UMSL has a long standing tradition of supporting emerging businesses and incubation including collaborative roles with the Center for Emerging Technologies and CORTEX.
Among the many offerings ITE has for St. Louis entrepreneurs are office space and computer infrastructure suitable for development and testing, including rack space for co-location, virtual machines and high performance computing. The data center is an architectural feature of the facility, beautifully housed in a 1,500 sq ft glass enclosure with an APC hot aisle containment system. It is supported by a chilled water plant as well as battery and generator backups. Computing infrastructure includes a 58 node, 232 core high performance computing cluster running Rocks and Oracle Grid Engine, an Oracle/Sun blade server, VMWare infrastructure, storage area network and various software infrastructure services. External network support is via 3-T1 connections, which is suitable for development and testing environments. As part of UMSL, ITE offers connections with computer science faculty and students to help build and develop technologies.
William Lemon, Director of Scientific and Computing Services for ITE, is focused on developing services to help emerging companies mature. "The goal and mission of ITE is to help startup companies get traction and grow. Doing so is part of the economic development mission of the university." ITE is interested in hearing from you how we might leverage our data center to help your company prosper. Please contact Dr. Lemon at 314-824-2002 or lemonw@ite-stl.org to discuss opportunities.
UMSL/ITE has remained a valued and committed sponsor of ITEN since the very beginnings of ITEN.
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