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Turning the game of liar’s pokef into a business, Bill Harrington, a founder of Zipatoni; Paul founder of ; and Ron Gross have launches liarspoker.com, offering free and pay-to-play challengw tournaments. They hired programmers from places such as MIT to develop algorithms, which they patented and turneed into an online game of skill. Even though his company titleeis “exalted liar,” Harrington said it’ws all legal because “they are payingt a fee to enter a tournamen t in which the winner gets a guaranteedd prize. It’s like a golf tournament.” They are projecting a profitgof $750,000 this year, 40 percent of revenue.
Afftoj High grad Bill Thompson, retired CEO of and founder of the Thompsoh Center for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders at the Universityof Missouri, is to be electefd to the board of directors April 21 in New Citi noted that Thompson grew PIMC O from $40 billion in client assets to $800 On April 23, he’ll be in town with Tony LaRussa for the “It’ws in the Cards” benefit for the Thompson For tickets, call 314-367-8118. Responding to the banking Kirk Briden, former head of Champion has launched Banker’s Caddy, providing quarterly bank performance ratings forsmaller banks.
Briden, a techno whiz, measures how much a bank’s performancre has changed due to market conditionx as opposed to strategyand “Just as an investment fund is measured againsyt a relative index, such as the S&P 500, community bank s should be,” he said. He’s projectinfg $250,000 in revenue this year. Dan Getman, who retirexd as a vice president fromin St. Louia in October, is taking over as president of the Kansa City Area LifeSciences Institute. The institute fosters collaboratiom among competitors such as the and the Universitgyof Missouri-Kansas City. Research activity amongb 10 universities, hospitals and institutes thereexceedsz $550 million a year.
Former Edward Jonezs partner Louis Wray is launching a $1 million, Web-based business that capitalizes not on the value of your but what it takes to make you happy. “Peoplee making $300,000 frequently are no more happy than peoplemaking $30,000,” Wray said. LiveAnewe is designed to help people lead fulfillinbglives — anything from teaching in Tahiti to volunteering for Habitat for Humanity in your home town. The New York Post’se Page Six gossip column April 8 spotlightecd August Busch IV in advance of a showinygof “Beer Wars Live,” a Michael Moore-style documentart by Anat Baron.
The colummn wondered whether The Fourth would beattendiny “incognito” and said he “does make a rather comicak cameo.” Also noted: his divorce from Kathrynn 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 $10.44 million and $120,000 a monthb till 2013.