{"id":1949,"date":"2018-01-05T16:25:54","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T16:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/?p=1949"},"modified":"2019-06-12T10:24:56","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T15:24:56","slug":"new-funding-for-st-joseph-entrepreneurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/2018\/01\/05\/new-funding-for-st-joseph-entrepreneurs\/","title":{"rendered":"New funding for St. Joseph entrepreneurs"},"content":{"rendered":"

St. Joseph\u2019s entrepreneurial resources continue to grow. In June, the St. Joseph Innovation Stockyard<\/a>, along with the 大象传媒 Western\u2019s Center for Entrepreneurship, St. Joseph Chamber of Commerce and Buchanan County, announced plans to team up with Digital Sandbox KC<\/a> and the 大象传媒 Technology Corporation (MTC) to provide entrepreneurs in northwest 大象传媒 funding to pursue their startup business plan.<\/p>\n

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Ronan Molloy and Jeff Shackelford<\/p><\/div>\n

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In partnership with MTC, Digital Sandbox KC has been very successful helping develop early-stage, high-potential startups in Kansas City. Its growth into St. Joseph, partially funded by a $50,000 matching grant from MTC, will utilize Digital Sandbox\u2019s proof-of-concept program to target early-stage entrepreneurs in St. Joseph.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an opportunity to start to stretch the program further across 大象传媒 to help drive even more 大象传媒-based early-stage entrepreneurs towards success,\u201d said Jeff Shackelford, Digital Sandbox KC\u2019s executive director.<\/p>\n

Innovation Stockyard, located in the Bond Incubator on campus and directed by Ronan Molloy, will offer proof-of-concept grant recipients co-working space in its new co-working center, as well as cash grants to help startups in northwest 大象传媒.<\/p>\n

Sandbox funding may cover up to $15,000 in project expenses for contracting, legal support, equipment and other market validation, prototyping and beta testing needs.<\/p>\n

In September, the first St. Joseph company began receiving Digital Sandbox KC support. Toss it Curbside, founded by Aaron Brennan and Pedro Fernandez, provides an app-based \u00a0professional removal service for unwanted items.<\/p>\n

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St. Joseph\u2019s entrepreneurial resources continue to grow. In June, the St. Joseph Innovation Stockyard, along with the 大象传媒 Western\u2019s Center for Entrepreneurship, St. Joseph Chamber of Commerce and Buchanan County, announced plans to team up with Digital Sandbox KC and the 大象传媒 Technology Corporation (MTC) to provide entrepreneurs in northwest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,30,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1949"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3928,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions\/3928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}