Kansas City Looking to squeeze every last drop out of the 54 hours of Startup Weekend Kansas City before you transition back to those other 8,706 hours of your year? No to worry: we have you covered. We caught up with SWKC organizers Steven Chau and Adam Coomes to get their thoughts on this year's event and tips for how to harness and carry forward the momentum … read more

Kansas City Behold the power of the T-shirt. It was fitting in a way that CraftWig, the only team to don matching T-shirts for Startup Weekend Kansas City final demonstrations on Sunday, walked away from the bizperc office space as the winner of SWKC. CraftWig, an online community for crafters that offers in-depth tutorials, shopping lists, price comparison and sharing, finished first among the eight teams that participated … read more

Indianola This past Saturday I had the privilege to speak at Startup Storm, a first of its kind event put on by Macy Koch, a senior at Simpson College. The event, billed as "teaching and supporting innovation and entrepreneurial development," featured an opening keynote by Nathan T. Wright, founder of Lava Row and co-founder of Uppward, a closing keynote from Ben Milne, founder of Dwolla, and presentations in between by Donni Alley of Alley Design… read more

La Vista Videos from this past February's Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship have been released by Nebraska Entrepreneur. This year's summit had an increased tech and creative presence on the speaker lineup which included, among others, our own co-founder, Dusty Davidson. To view the full event schedule, see our post: "Schedule: 2011 Nebraska… read more

Kansas City Join us around 6:30 p.m. for live-streaming of demo pitches from the eight teams at Startup Weekend Kansas City. read more

Kansas City Our editor, Michael Stacy, is both competing in and covering his first Startup Weekend at the moment and while he's currently doing the former with his team, My … read more

Kansas City Quoth great Kevin McCallister (because when isn’t a Home Alone quote at least marginally appropriate?): This is it. Don’t get scared now. Just a few hours stand between Startup Weekend Kansas City participants and their final presentations, which get underway at 6:30 p.m. here at the bizperc office space. Rest assured, “getting scared” won’t be a problem here. Teams seem far more excited than apprehensive, thanks to a busy second day of Startup Weekend on Saturday. Folks hit … read more

Kansas City Day 2 of Startup Weekend Kansas City kicked off this morning on the heels of an energetic opening night. For starters, attendees on Friday enjoyed dinner, Boulevard beer and spectacular downtown views from the sixth floor of the bizperc office space. Co-organizer Adam Coomes served as emcee for the evening, and ice-breaking games got the group's collective startup juices flowing. Dwolla CEO Ben Milne was the featured speaker for … read more