Startup Weekend’s challenge: Build Missouri’s next billion-dollar idea (in three days)

By Tommy Felts | March 14, 2025

COLUMBIA, Missouri — Budding entrepreneurs are gathering next month for a three-day business pitch event that could earn them $45,000 in prizes plus a $150,000 investment opportunity for the winning company with billion-dollar potential, organizers said. Missouri Startup Weekend returns April 11-13 at EquipmentShare’s newly opened Technology & Development Center in Columbia. It’s a unique…

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Startup Weekend winners could have a billion-dollar solution for struggling taxpayers

By Tommy Felts | April 11, 2024

Organizers of Missouri Startup Weekend predicted this year’s winner could be poised to be the competition’s next billion-dollar alumni. Solvtax presented the weekend’s winning pitch: a solution for avoiding financial implications through better business and personal property tax management. The idea struck a chord with entrepreneurs, founders, and CEOs in both the audience and judge’s…

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Tax service wins Missouri Startup Weekend as entrepreneurs embrace ‘building great stuff’

By Tommy Felts | April 10, 2024

Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Missouri Business Alert, a member of the Kansas City Media Collective, which also includes Startland News, KCUR 89.3, American Public Square, Kansas City PBS/Flatland, and The Kansas City Beacon. Click here to read the original story. [divide] COLUMBIA, Missouri — St. Louis natives David Beach and Bryan Edelman won Missouri…

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