Official Quillpill Blog

There are a couple of things I would like to talk about today. To start things off, I recently attended the Midwest Highlight conference in Kansas City, MO. It was quite interesting to see the tech startups from around the Midwest region. There is a lot of energy in the group, and a growing realization that more and more, high-growth business isn’t limited to a few isolated areas of the country. Anywhere you can build a community of talented engineers and artists, you can build a business.

Funding is a different animal in the Midwest. While on the coast it is almost always only the newest startups or hobby projects that are being bootstrapped for any extended period of time, it appears to be the norm in the Midwest. Talking with the angels and banks in the area, I can see why. Midwest money expects slower growth, even from high-growth tech businesses. They like to see costs kept down and money spent in smaller, managed portions.

This attitude may occasionally put a company coming into a crowded market at a disadvantage over their more free-spending opponents, but the mantra I heard was that it was best to let companies succeed or fail fast.

It’s a very Midwest attitude towards business. Most of the startup communities in places like Des Moines, Omaha, and Kansas City are in their first years, but there is certainly a growing number of people that want to see them built up.

Meanwhile, Quillpill is heading around the world. We are currently designing and testing the new version for release! While running the beta here in America, we’ve also been doing research and testing in Japan. Once the release is made, we’ll be promoting it in Japan with our Japanese partners as well as here at home.

The community we’ve been speaking with in Japan is pretty excited about what we’ll be bringing to the Keitai Shousetsu and we’re excited to be working with them.