Kansas City Lacey Ellis has been solving problems her entire professional career. Problem is, it's always been for someone else. She helped build campaigns for clients like Commerce Bank, MetLife and Hostess as an art director and freelancer at ad agencies the past ten years. When a problem she faced as a mother wouldn't leave her head, she came up with digital scrapbooking app LittleHootz. The end result: first prize Sunday at Startup Weekend Kansas City, which aims to build viable companies … read more

Kansas City Startup Weekend lands in Kansas City for its seventh round April 12-14. Two-hundred cities around the world … read more

We're hard-pressed to think of a Startup Weekend anywhere in the region that's been documented as thoroughly with video as last weekend's Startup Weekend Kansas City. And although we can't claim credit for the video work — that credit belongs to SWKC's organizers, the in-house video gurus at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and Shane Guiter from Kansas City Public Television — we can compile it all in one place, in an easily digestible form … read more

GlamSnap and Wazoo both earned acclaim on a local level over the weekend, winning Startup Weekend Des Moines and Startup Weekend Kansas City, respectively. Now the Silicon Prairie's two newest Startup Weekend winners are taking their act to a global … read more

Kansas City Without proper planning or the right tools, a day at the zoo can become, well, a zoo. Long walks, overlooked attractions and missed events can leave a patron full of frustration. Just ask Kelly Tomlinson. Tomlinson, a Kansas City-based UI designer, recently listened to her roommate complain of all those issues upon returning from a trip to the zoo. ... read more

Kansas City The sixth Startup Weekend Kansas City wraps up this evening with a closing pitch session that begins at about 4:45 … read more

Kansas City Seventeen teams are in the final stretch of Startup Weekend Kansas City, working toward the event's closing pitch session, which begins this afternoon at about 4:45 at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. This is the sixth Kansas City rendition of Startup Weekend, an event held all over the world that's designed to give participants the experience of launching a business in just more than 48 … read more

Kansas City Global Entpreneurship Week activities in Kansas City wrap up this weekend with Startup Weekend Kansas City, which runs tonight through Sunday at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (4801 Rockhill Road). For those who can't make it to the Kauffman Foundation tonight, event organizers are providing a live stream of the evening's events, beginning at 7 p.m. … read more

Kansas City The return of Startup Weekend Kansas City is less than a month away. Kansas City's sixth Startup Weekend event will take place Nov. 16-18 at the Ewing Kauffman Foundation (4801 Rockhill Road), providing participants the experience of launching a business over the course of one weekend. As at other Startup Weekend events, things in Kansas City kick off on Friday evening, when participants deliver one-minute pitches for their company ideas. Teams then devote Saturday and Sunday to … read more