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At least three people have been killed, including a sleeping two-year-old girl, as a violent spring storm has battered the Midwest with powerful winds and heavy snow. The storm front swept across the Midwest this weekend, leaving large swathes of the region blanketed in snow. The city of St. Paul in Minnesota was forced to […]
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In this week’s featured video, Axios’ Dan Primack questions the sincerity of venture capitalists who have recently taken tours of the Midwest to explore investment opportunities, likening the experience to going on vacation: The way I think about it was, I took a ski trip with my family 2 weeks ago, and I remember saying […]
For many Silicon Valley venture capitalists, the five-hour flight to the Midwest may seem five times that long, considering most of their portfolio companies may currently be within a 30-minute drive. But distance shouldn’t keep Silicon Valley and the Midwest from working together — and in fact, Silicon Valley venture capitalists are likely to miss […]
GUEST: You likely already have plans for what you’ll be doing in 2018. Maybe you’ve already bought tickets for an epic trip or committed yourself to getting fit this year. Sounds like fun! But maybe 2018 is also the year that you should start the business you’ve always dreamed of. Whether you know exactly what kind of […]
GUEST: A year ago, the Midwest saw one of its largest tech exits to-date: the January 2017 $ 1.1 billion sale of CoverMyMeds to San Francisco-based McKesson Corp. The CoverMyMeds exit was the biggest in Ohio history, and it signaled an upward growth trajectory in exit activity from 2016. When it comes to Midwest exits, 2017 […]
GUEST: Women remain underrepresented in tech, even as the industry tries to address jaw-dropping statistics about their absence in tech’s upper echelon. Less than 3 percent of female founders raised venture capital in 2017, even though in the first quarter of 2017 17 percent of startups reported having a female founder. On the venture capital side, […]
Winter Storm to Hamper Midwest Travel on Christmas Eve Advertiser Disclosure The credit card offers that appear on the website are from credit card companies from which ThePointsGuy.com receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site (including, for example, the order in which they appear). This site does not […]
Some of the brightest minds leading the Midwest blockchain movement gathered in Lincoln last week to make the case for the Midwest as a leader in the technology and to announce Block-a-thon coming April 2018. “We’re all about planting seeds and joining forces with people that have a common vision, common ideas, and a common passion around […]
Large protests erupted Friday in St. Louis after a former police officer was cleared in the fatal shooting of a black man, leading to more than a dozen arrests and a confrontation in which law enforcement fired tear gas at demonstrators. The protests came in response to a judge finding Jason Stockley, who is white, […]
