People & Places
1 Million Cups with DropShades and CouponCloud
Every Wednesday morning entrepreneurs fill the Kauffman Foundation to the brim for 1 Million Cups. This week DropShades and CouponCloud presented their companies in the auditorium lined with a few hundred audience members.
Kansas City takes on the NASA Space Apps Challenge for 2nd Year
While many would consider going out on a Friday night to include dinner, drinks or going dancing, a select group of individuals went to Ingenology, a startup incubator in the Crossroads district, to build software for NASA’s Space Apps Challenge.
24-hour hackathon leads to new websites for nonprofits
Web pro Meg Adams stayed up for 24 hours to help design a new website for Kansas City Actors Theatre. (Photo by Caitlin Cress/Hale Center for Journalism) Caitlin Cress — The Hale Center for Journalism The project space at Think Big Partners in the Crossroads is packed: the open…
Profile: Doug Peterson
Doug Peterson has worked at the Natural Resources Conservation Service in Missouri for over 25 years. He started his career as a soil scientist and is currently a state soil health conservationist. He teaches residents and farmers from around Missouri about soil health and how soil health impacts virtually all natural resources.
Profile: John Coler of Techstars
John Coler is a young Kansas City-based entrepreneur who has worked in different areas throughout the local entrepreneur community. Recently, he joined the Techstars team and is now based out of the Sprint Accelerator in the Crossroads District.
1 Million Cups with RareWire and Leap.it
Entrepreneurs filled the auditorium inside the Kauffman Foundation for the anniversary edition of 1 Million Cups. This week featured one presenter with a mobile app development tool and another with a socially integrated search engine.
Community rallies around local entrepreneur after house fire
It’s news that no one ever wants to receive, but that Landon Young got the morning after he returned from a business trip to Africa. Two weeks ago he was preparing to give a lecture at William Jewell College when a student, who received a call from Young’s friend, broke the news to him.
Profile: Kyle Rogers of Knoda
Kyle Rogers is the co-founder and CEO of Knoda, a prediction tracking application, and a graduate from the inaugural class of the Spark Lab KC accelerator program.
Clothing donation bins have varying levels of local impact
Kansas Citians have many options when it comes to donating used clothes, but the most convenient option is often the ever-present clothing donation bin. While running errands, it’s not uncommon to pass a dozen of these bins, all owned by different companies: Disabled American Veterans, Planet Aid and Resolution Reuse are just a few of…
Join buspreneurs on StartupBus Midwest
It’s been one month since Kansas City entrepreneurs boarded the Midwest StartupBus and headed to Texas. Watch a final wrap-up of the buspreneurs’ journey above (edited by Hale Center reporter John McGrath), and read all about the trip here.