Statewide startup investment fund may become reality

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1. Startups have been part of the game in St. Louis City MO for ...

quite some time and some have been quite successful...w/ so much money being cut from the state of Missouri budget in the last year or so under Greitens' first year, I question whether the state will be a viable long-term partner.

However, money is money, and perhaps a budding innovator can benefit.

However, I don't trust the ability of the state of MO to adequately evaluate the potential of all of those desiring funds, and to perhaps be awarded should an innovation (or innovations) be successful.

Smart governments can, but the state of MO is embarrassing overwhelming republican (in short what I'm saying is not just being republican is the problem, but being too one-sided is the problem), whereas the successful startups in St. Louis City was done w/o the state of MO's help for the most part (if any at all) and was done w/ multiple partners (business and local entities (and not just governments but quasi-governmental too)...don't stifle the process, but constructively enable and engage the innovators.

Good luck on this effort.