SixThirty, the financial services tech startup accelerator founded by Jim McKelvey in 2013, has selected four startups to makeup its spring 2014 class. Each startup will receive a $100,000 investment in return for an equity stake (between 5 percent and 10 percent).
The companies will move to St. Louis for the four-month program, where they’ll receive mentoring and access to global financial companies like MasterCard and Edward Jones.
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Jack joined one of my companies – we did publishing software for conferences – when he was 15, basically as an intern. He was still at school and worked for us for three summers. His mother owned a coffee shop. This was before you could get Ritalin readily, so we used to use the chocolate-covered espresso beans to stay awake during long hauls. One of my co-workers got talking to her. She mentioned that her son liked working with computers, so we agreed for him to come in for an interview, then forgot about it.
Read more at www.theguardian.com.
Square co-founder Jim McKelvey went on the road last week with a message to aspiring programmers: You don’t need a college degree to make a six-figure salary.
Hackton, Columbia’s new community space for programmers, hosted McKelvey on Oct. 24, where he spoke to Silicon Prairie News and a crowd of more than 50 about his latest endeavor, LaunchCode.
Read more at www.siliconprairienews.com.
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