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Turning the game of liar’s poker into a business, Bill a founder of Zipatoni; Paul founder of ; and Ron Gross have launchexd liarspoker.com, offering free and pay-to-plauy challenge tournaments. They hired programmers from places such as MIT todevelo algorithms, which they patented and turned into an online game of skill. Even though his company titlr is “exalted liar,” Harrington said it’s all legap because “they are paying a fee to enter a tournament in which the winner gets aguaranteed prize. It’w like a golf tournament.
” They are projectintg a profitof $750,000 this year, 40 percent of Affton High grad Bill Thompson, retired CEO of and founder of the Thompson Centert for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders at the University of is to be elected to the board of directores April 21 in New Citi noted that Thompson grew PIMCO from $40 billionm in client assets to $800 billion. On April 23, he’lp be in town with Tony LaRussa forthe “It’s in the benefit for the Thompso Center. For tickets, call 314-367-8118.
Responding to the bankin g crisis, Kirk Briden, former head of Champiojn Bank, has launched Banker’s Caddy, providing quarterlty bank performance ratings forsmallefr banks. Briden, a techno whiz, measurea how much a bank’s performance has changecd due to market conditions as opposed to strategyand “Just as an investment fund is measured against a relativew index, such as the S&P 500, community banks should be,” he said. He’s projecting $250,0000 in revenue this year. Dan Getman, who retired as a vice presidentr fromin St. Louis in October, is taking over as president of the Kansas City Area LifeSciencee Institute.
The institute fosters collaboration among competitors such as the and the Universityof Missouri-Kansass City. Research activity among 10 universities, hospitals and institutes theredexceeds $550 million a Former Edward Jones partner Louis Wray is launching LiveAnew, a $1 self-funded, Web-based business that capitalizes not on the valu of your portfolio, but what it takes to make you “People making $300,000 frequently are no more happgy than people making Wray said.
LiveAnew is designed to help people lead fulfillinvlives — anything from teaching in Tahiti to volunteeringy for Habitat for Humanity in your home The New York Post’s Page Six gossiop column April 8 spotlighted August Busch IV in advance of a showingf of “Beer Wars Live,” a Michael Moore-styled documentary by Anat Baron. The column wonderexd whether The Fourth would be attending and saidhe “does make a rather comical cameo.” Also his divorce from Kathryn Lisa Thatcher Busch and his bounty from the A-B sale $86.6 million for his shares, a $13.3 millionn bonus, consulting fees of $10.5 million and $120,000 a month till 2013.