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Knoda receives $50K investment from Mizzou student angel group
Angel investors come from all backgrounds and industries, but Kansas City-based Knoda today announced it has received a $50,000 investment from a less likely angel group: students. Through the University of Missouri’s Trulaske College of Business, the Allen Angel Capital Education program allows students of any level to apply and participate in the investment landscape.
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Newsy scores long-term editorial relationship with MSN News
In the middle of Missouri, paired with one of the top-rated journalism programs in the country, Newsy has quietly fostered big-league media relationships to share its multi-source video news service. Today, the Columbia, Mo.-based startup announced a long-term relationship with MSN News to collaboratively produce up to 20 videos per day for the network. …
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Mizzou journalism fellows tackle field’s challenges through tech
In an unfortunate and ironic twist, SPN hasn’t covered nearly enough of the entrepreneurial work fellow journalists are doing at the University of Missouri. Last week, the Reynolds Journalism Institute announced nine fellows…
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Meet the CoMo community. A startup tour of Columbia, Missouri
I love Columbia, Mo. It’s vibrant and artsy. It’s highly educated. It’s full of opportunity and has the No. 4 ranked basketball team in the country (sorry … couldn’t resist). A few months ago, the community inspired me to write an article, “5 Advantages Of Small Town Entrepreneurial Living,” about why I choose to live…
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Newsy finds fertile ground growing multi-source news in Missouri
Telling the story of his move from northern California to middle Missouri, Jim Spencer peppers in a couple of punch lines that have become well-polished with use. In 2008, Spencer relocated from San Francisco to Columbia, Mo. to start Newsy, a provider of multi-platform, multi-source video news analysis. “I explained to the folks in northern…