May 23, 2013 by Fred Bauters
Kansas City Kansas City's six-day celebration of entrepreneurship, 1Week KC, announced today it has locked down dates for its second spin. June 25-30 will feautre grassroots events, larger conferences and more, all intended to "educate, inspire, encourage and celebrate entrepreneurship," according to the press release. "1Week KC was bigger than just a local event," said organizer … read more
Kansas City Startup Weekend and the Startup America Partnership—both supported by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation—today announced they will start up a joint organization, UP Global, a "full-spectrum support service" intended to take entrepreneurs from pre-idea through high-growth … read more
May 21, 2013 by Fred Bauters
Kansas City The Kansas City Startup Village (KCSV) wants to invite its neighbors over for dinner, er, meetings. Fresh off 1 Million Cups' weekly Wednesday gatherings at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the KCSV has been sticking around for an hour-long discussion at 10:30 a.m. (left). Topics have been fairly limited to the Village's challenges and initiatives, but that's about to change. KCSV co-founder Adam Arredondo told Silicon Prairie News … read more
Kansas City Earlier today, we reported Sprint acquired Handmark and its subsidiary, OneLouder. But we haven't been along for the entire journey like the Kansas City Business Journal. Reporter Alyson Raletz put together a timeline showing how the deal coalesced, including the fact it took almost four months … read more
Kansas City Education startup myEDmatch has quickly—seven months since launch—caught the eye of DonorsChoose.org, the nonprofit that since 2000 has raised about $180 million for classroom projects. The Kansas City startup, which offers teachers and administrators "... read more
May 20, 2013 by Fred Bauters
Kansas City Sprint didn't have to call long distance to acquire app developer Handmark and its social and mobile advertising subsidiary OneLouder. The 13-year-old company is based about 20 miles north of Sprint's headquarters in Overland Park, Kan. The telecom giant today announced the move, one it says it made in an effort to boost its advertising platform, Pinsight Media+. Neither party disclosed terms of the deal, which was completed last month ... read more
May 16, 2013 by Fred Bauters
Kansas City Carrie Royce recently resigned from the company she co-founded, Red Nova Labs, to pursue her own startups. With her involvement in the Kansas City startup community—she started Red Nova's Venture Fridays event and spearheaded the KC Startup Crawl—we recently conducted an email interview with Royce to learn more about her journey. | Silicon Prairie News: What triggered your jump from Red Nova Labs into a startup? | Carrie Royce: The decision wasn’t really triggered by anything in particular. I’d been thinking about it … read more
May 16, 2013 by Fred Bauters
Kansas City Kansas City hops on the motherboard of 51 cities participating in the National … read more
May 15, 2013 by Fred Bauters
Kansas City Regional tech council KCnext on Tuesday announced the addition of three members to its board of directors, including Silicon Prairie News community builder Regan Carrizales. Kevin McGinnis, senior vice president of product platforms at Sprint, and Kyle Mallot, vice president at DST Systems, also joined the board, which includes Greg Kratofil, a Polsinelli attorney who's worked with several area startups. KCnext's mission is to grow the city's existing base of technology firms, recruit … read more
Kansas City Thanks to an all-expenses-paid trip earlier this year, a University of Houston student discovered the Kansas City startup community. The student, Andrew Douglass, a management information systems major, in March earned a trip to participate in "Hacking the Gigabit City." … read more
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