March 11, 2011 by Royce Haynes
Kansas City An idea that jokingly turned into a tech challenge back in March 2010, the Startup bus stopped in at Kauffman Labs in Kansas City while en route to South by Southwest Interactive. StartupBus, the idea that coined the word "Buspreneurs," is an all-out 48-hour challenge to build a minimum viable product, but there's a twist: the tech entrepreneurs… read more
March 8, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
When putting together yesterday's event post, I overlooked two quality events taking place this week, one in Lincoln tonight and one in Kansas City tomorrow. Tonight there's a presentation by entrepreneur John Moorhead of Free Air Collective, and tomorrow there's a meet-and-great with the StartupBus team traveling from Chicago to Austin, Texas for South by Southwest Interactive. Details from the events' websites are below as well as links to where you can find more information. If you have an item to add to our event page… read more
April 5, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Austin Catching up on Twitter a couple months ago I was reminded just how the small the world can be sometimes. In this instance, I learned that Elias Bizannes, an Australian that I had met at South by Southwest Interactive 2009, had just gained attention for one of his side projects: @EliasBiz: My @startupbus idea got featured on @TechCrunch :) 4:39 PM Feb 11th And within a day, I saw Timothy Kephart of Omaha-based Graffitti Tracker, put his company's support behind it: @TimothyKephart… read more