Innovation

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One Year In | Crema Moves to Shorter Name and Larger Team

“One Year In” is a five-part series that revisits entrepreneurs highlighted on Flatland within the past year. We check on the progress of once-fledgling startups, see how the local entrepreneurship environment is treating them, and get to better understand their long-term decision-making. All interviews have been edited for length and clarity. Crema refers to the…

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One Year In | For Rawxies, A Growing Team and Consumer Base

“One Year In” is a five-part series that revisits entrepreneurs highlighted on Flatland within the past year. We check on the progress of once-fledgling startups, see how the local entrepreneurship environment is treating them, and get to better understand their long-term decision-making. All interviews have been edited for length and clarity. Three years after moving…

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One Year In | Taking Beer Paws Full Time

“One Year In” is a five-part series that revisits entrepreneurs highlighted on Flatland within the past year. We check on the progress of once-fledgling startups, see how the local entrepreneurship environment is treating them, and get to better understand their long-term decision-making. All interviews have been edited for length and clarity. Two Blodgett commercial ovens,…

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Searching for the ‘Smart’ in New Kiosks

Kansas City officials finally debuted the first tangible development in becoming a “smart city.” As the Big 12 tournament took center stage recently at the Sprint Center, bringing thousands into the Power & Light District, two interactive touch-screen kiosks were installed on the 1300th block of Grand Ave. As part of Kansas City’s Smart City Initiative, these two…

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For Innovators, Winning Isn’t Everything

Last year’s Innovator of the Year, Alicia Herald, put winning the Pipeline Entrepreneurial Fellowship Program’s marquee award into perspective. “I think it’s a fun title, and you get a beautiful celebratory bowl,” said Herald, CEO of myEDmatch. “But internally amongst the Pipeline family, we think of the event as the celebration of how far all…

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Ka-Blooom!

And then there was one. Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation hosted the first One in a Million Business and Pitch Competition Wednesday morning at the Kauffman Foundation Conference Center on Rockhill Road, as five hopeful entrepreneurs from the 1 Million Cups community presented their start-up companies to a panel of…

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The Mighty Handle

90 Seconds With Mighty Handle

Ed’s Note: Flatland and Startland News have partnered to highlight Kansas City’s innovators and entrepreneurs, all in 90 seconds. This is the fifth and final episode in the series.  Think of Mighty Handle as your digital defender. No, Mighty Handle is not anti-virus software. Rather, the handy, Kansas City-made contraption is a device that can save your fingers from…

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90 Seconds with ShotTracker

From propelling the game’s emergence in the early 1900s, to honing hall of fame players like Wilt Chamberlin at the University of Kansas, the Sunflower State is rich in basketball history. So it makes sense that a Kansas company, ShotTracker, hopes to write the sport’s next chapter with its wearable technology for basketball players and coaches….

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How can gigabit internet be used in healthcare?

When Bob Summers found himself in a new city, without his regular trainer or workout buddies, he wondered how technology could help him stick to his exercise and health routine. That’s why he developed Fitnet, an interactive app that connects people with fitness trainers through on-demand video. He demonstrated how the user can follow along…

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