Kansas City Though Bart Stein is no longer part of a startup, he has plenty of advice to share from his experience founding one. In early 2011, he and his co-founder began building Stamped, a mobile app that aimed to show users meaningful recommendations made by their friends. Less than a year after lauching the app, the company was acquired by Yahoo! Stein and other Stamped team members now work for Yahoo!, where he's the product … read more

Kansas City After years of advising startups and founding companies, Micah Baldwin was tired. During his talk last week at our Big Kansas City event, the serial entrepreneur and founder and CEO of Graphicly told the audience how he became so worn out he almost sold the company. Graphicly started out as a marketplace for selling comic books. The company changed focus in 2012 to become a provider of tools … read more

Kansas City Water changes everything. That's the message charity: water founder Scott Harrison shared today at our Big Kansas City event. Harrison's non-profit organization has raised nearly $100 million to bring clean water to communities in 20 countries. Access to safe drinking water is changing not just the lives of people in those towns and villages, but the lives of the donors and organizers, as well. Water changed Harrison's life. … read more