This newsletter from ITEN provides updates on upcoming startup events in St. Louis including a 2nd Thursday speaker series, the formation of a Big Data Special Interest Group, and the graduation of SmartCare from the Mock Angels program. ITEN was also awarded the Community Outreach Award at the Gateway to Innovation conference. New companies joining ITEN and mentors are highlighted, along with featured jobs and blog posts.

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ITEN: Catalyst for Tech Startups
Moving Forward
April. 2014
In This Issue
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Big Data Special Interest Group (SIG) Being Formed
Featured Event: 2nd Thursday Founder Series
News and Events Picked
Feature Blog: Why New Jersey needs to slow down its traffic
ITEN winning the Gateway to Innovation Conference's Community Outreach Award
SmartCare Graduates from Mock Angels
Welcome New Companies Joining ITEN
Featured New Mentors
Featured Job Openings
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Big Data Special Interest
Group (SIG) Being Formed
ITEN winning the Gateway to Innovation
Conference's Community Outreach Award
The annual Gateway to Innovation Conference was held at the Hyatt Regency
St. Louis at the Arch on April 23th. Building upon the growing success of past
conferences, the 2014 G2I event was a huge success. The conference was
able to garner over 1000 attendees and featured such keynotes speakers as
the world's one of most influential management thinkers and the Global
Solutions Award winner Don Tapscott and a recognized artist and speaker Erik
Wahl.
For ITEN and the startup tech
community, there were some significant
highlights, as g2i continues to integrate
more and more of the tech
entrepreneurial culture into the event.
Among the presenters are Chuck
Vallurupalli, EIR of ITEN and Dheeraj
Patri from FoodEssentials. ITEN was
thrilled to participate in the 2014
Gateway to Innovation conference. The
Committee highlighted ITEN's work to
support the tech entrepreneurial
ecosystem in the region and presented
ITEN with Community Outreach Award

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Chuck Vallurupalli : ITEN EIR
Big Data SIG is a collaborative effort of people
and organizations interested in leveraging
insights from Big Data to make a sustainable,
bigger, broader impact in our local community.
"Big Data is an emerging area where everyone
can learn from each other to make a bigger
impact. The topics are broad, the questions are
too many, the potential impact is huge." Said
Chuck Vallurupalli, ITEN EIR and Big Data
(SIG)steering committee lead. Read More.
Featured Event:
2nd Thursday Founder Series
ITEN 2nd Thursday Speaker Series April 10
2014
On April 10th, 4:00pm 2nd Thursday Founder
Series ticked off. Our guest speaker Sam
Glines, co­Founder and CEO of wildly­
successful Norse tells us about his company,
Norse Corp and it's striking background. Read
More.
Held at the Tavern of Fine Arts , 313 Belt Ave
St. Louis 63112, just off Pershing between
Union and DeBalivere. It's a happy two hours
with all of your friends from ITEN and beyond.
Everyone is invited; plenty of free parking.
Always interesting discussions and it's a great
ITEN with Community Outreach Award
" We'd like to say how honored and
happy we are to receive the Gateway
to Innovation Conference's Community
Outreach Award," Said Jim Brasunas,
the executive director of ITEN. "It is
very gratifying to be recognized for the
efforts we're making to improve the tech culture in St. Louis, and in particular
for launching the Entrepreneur in Residence program. The Community Outreach
Award helps all of us feel that our work and hours invested are being noticed. It
will energize us to work even harder! "
SmartCare Graduates from Mock Angels
A compelling St. Louis tech startup has successfully completed the the Mock
Angel program to become our 30th graduate, and fifth so far in 2014.
SmartCare provides a unified sensor­driven technology platform to manage
senior communities, enabling them to improve overall quality of life for their
residents, give greater peace of mind for relatives, and provide superior returns
for community owners. Scott Mosher, co­founder of SmartCare, along the
rest of the SmartCare team have now begun the process of connecting with
potential investors, including the 85 that are members of the ITEN investor
network.
Join us all in congratulating SmartCare, our newest Mock Angel graduate!
A list of all of the Mock Angel graduates is at http://itenstl.org/mock­angel­
program­graduates/.
Welcome New Companies Joining ITEN
Searchlight Multimedia : E­Learning/Multimedia.
Need Fixed : The Expedia of Cell Phone Repair Shops.
ichurch phone apps : Mobile application that allows users the opportunity and
convenience to experience a wide variety of churches from one application on
your ios or android mobile device.
HoneLife : a social media site where you use your creative skills and interests to
collaborate, compete, and learn with others.
PFITR : a compliance, valuations and analytics tool for public entities.
Think a Little Bigger : Funeral Products
WaitIQ : Crowdsourcing of wait times for any location.
Youfundrealty : a platform used to raise crowdfunded equity for the acquisition
of Commercial Real Estate.

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David Strom: ITEN
Mentor
Michael Gaddis : ITEN New
Mentor
Wendy Richardson : ITEN New
Mentor
Always interesting discussions and it's a great
way for entrepreneurs, investors, mentors and
others interested in networking with and about
start­up tech ventures to connect with each
other. 2nd Thursday is open to all and all are
welcome, so do come hang with us!
Special heartfelt thanks to our 2nd Thursday
event sponsors: AHM Financial, and the iSelect
Fund. 2nd Thursday's Twitter #tag is
#2ndThursday .
Our next upcoming 2nd Thursday will be May
8th. Guest speakers: John Leach, co­founder
and CTO, SpliceMachine .
News and Events Picked
WEST May Day Party on Thursday, May 1,
2014 (Details and registration).
ADVANCE ST. LOUIS presents:
Early Stage Company Capital Raising ­ Going
Beyond Friends and Family on May 7, 2014
Pixel Press Floors Available Soon!
Pixel Press Floors will be available for the Apple
iPad (iPad 2+ and iPad Mini) in April 30, 2014.
What To Expect At The Spirit Of St. Louis Air
Show & STEM Expo, May 3­4 @techli.com
Featured Blog
Why New Jersey
needs to slow down
its traffic
by David Strom
It is ironic that the
same thing that got
Chris Christy in trouble ­
delaying traffic into
Manhattan ­ is being
used by others to build
a multi­million business.
I am talking about network traffic for stock
traders. Perhaps you have seen the stories
about them based on Michael Lewis' latest book
Flash Boys.
In the celebrated George Washington
"bridgegate" fracas, it was delays introduced by
closing various on­ramps to the bridge. In the
case of the stock market, it was delays of 350
microseconds that made high­frequency trades
more equitable across exchanges. (Full Article)
LoanNEX : the first mortgage origination platform designed to let Borrowers and
Lenders work together to connect with the best Investor for their loan request.
Engineering Software International : Green Building solutions.
orderbolt : a smartphone application that provides for mobile ordering and
payment from the convenience of the customer's own device.
STLaero : Design & develop aerospace products (planes, rockets, etc)
Welcome New Mentors Joining ITEN
Wendy Richardson
VP Customer Technical Communications at
MasterCard
Wendy would like to learn about and support
innovative organizations and products. She is
interested in mentoring ITEN's Mock Angel
Program, Women­Owned business and Minority­
Owned business as well. You will see Wendy at
some of ITEN events where our startups
entrepreneurs will be in attendance as well.
Michael Gaddis
Gaddis
Laboratories LLC
Michael enjoys
the creative
process more
than any other
aspect of company building. It is at this stage
that all things are possible and the task rests
solely with the entrepreneur. When Michael
mentors young entrepreneurs he get to share in
the early creative experience and he get jazzed
by their energy. His experience with venture
capitalists and building companies as a founder,
director, CTO and CEO gives him a perspective
that allows him to help others avoid the many
pitfalls that occur. Having raised over $750
million in various funding instruments over his
career for companies that he helped grow, we can say he has seen the best
and worst of it.
Featured Job Openings
DevOps Engineer
Senior iOS Developer
Graphic Web Designer
CSS Front End Developer
Startup Apprentice

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Startup Apprentice
Digital/Social Media Intern
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