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4992_cca121f8d4_small November 14, 2012 by Annie Sorensen

Lenexa Creating one of the first organized angel investment groups in the Kansas City area was the motivation behind the founding of Mid-America Angels Investments (MAA), a program inside the Enterprise Center of Johnson County. Joel Wiggins, the co-founder and executive director of MAA, moved to the Kansas City area in 2005 from Austin, Texas, where he was the director of the Austin Technology Incubator. Impressed with the area's entrepreneurial community, Wiggins felt there were great success stories coming out of the area and that the community … read more

3451_061abf419f_small January 17, 2012 by Michael Stacy

Kansas City With Kansas' angel investor tax credit on the chopping block, notable players in the Kansas City startup community are going to bat for the legislation. Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (left) has proposed a 2013 budget that includes the elimination of the state's angel investor tax … read more

3192_9493b7f0c7_small November 21, 2011 by Michael Stacy

Kansas City As we reported earlier this month, a couple of Kansas City-area technology initiatives have joined forces to form a new group that's taking a more regional approach to representing Kansas City's technology interests. That new group, called KCnext - The Technology Council of Greater Kansas City, is a fusion of the Software and Information Technology … read more

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