Long lines for the elliptical machine at a jam-packed gym have you rethinking that New Years resolution already? Well, the team at Codeacademy has an alternative idea. Codeacademy, a startup that provides free … read more

Kansas City At a time when most social applications rely on networks of people that know each other and on content produced by users with distinguishable identities, Kansas City, Mo.-based JimmyGood Technology is taking an altogether different approach with its latest application, MindPush. What if all you know about someone else is that they're … read more

Overland Park When it launched last year, Tech Orchard specialized in purchasing, refurbishing and reselling pre-owned iPads and iPhones. But the team behind the Overland Park, Kan-based startup soon identified a related sector ripe with opportunity. "As we were doing the research, we found a tremendous need in providing managed services for iPads, that include leasing, training, implementing, supporting and recycling the devices," Phil Poje, Tech Orchard … read more

Iowa City It wasn't long ago that Michal Eynon-Lynch (far left) and Riley Eynon-Lynch (near left) made their living as teachers, educating students on subjects like math and science, history and humanities. Now, the wife and husband are getting an education of their own — on bootstrapping a startup. The Eynon-Lynches, along with designer Dan Sweeney, make … read more

Omaha Proxibid, the Omaha-based real auction marketplace, today launched Proxibid Classifieds, a new listing service that gives auction companies and business sellers the ability to sell items directly to buyers. Using Proxibid Classifieds, sellers can create an account and be ready to sell their items in just minutes. Buyers, meanwhile, are not required … read more

Overland Park Today's smartphone-powered world has reached a point that stories of autocorrect gone awry have achieved almost urban-legend status. Everyone, it seems, has an anecdote of autocorrect out of control. Heck, there are entire websites dedicated to the confusing, humorous and oftentimes excruciatingly awkward outcomes produced when a phone has a mind of its own. Now, thanks to … read more

Des Moines There’s nothing quite like quality face time with enthusiastic users and a big IPO from a competitor to renew a startup’s zest for pursuing aggressive growth. That’s a lesson learned recently by Brad Dwyer, the Panora, Iowa-based founder of Hatchlings. Dwyer created Hatchlings, a Facebook game that revolves around finding, collecting and hatching virtual Easter eggs, in 2008, when he was a student at Iowa State. A few years into the venture, Dwyer started mulling the idea of selling the company or otherwise reducing his involvement to free up time for other projects. … read more