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Divshot wins Crowdstart LA contest, takes home $25k
Divshot, a Kansas City, Mo. startup born at Kansas City Startup Weekend in April, took first place today at Crowdstart LA, a live pitch event hosted by crowdfunding platform Crowdfunder. Today’s competition in Santa Monica was the culmination of a 7-week crowdsourced startup …
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Prairie Moves: KC’s Social Media Command Center nears 25k tweets
Lead Read “By The Numbers (evening update)” – Kansas City’s Social Media Command Center, a group of volunteers monitoring the social media activity around the All-Star Game, is providing updates of its activity on the VisitKC blog, one of the organizations behind the effort. As of last night, the team has reviewed nearly 25,000 tweets…
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Code for America Accelerator elects MindMixer to first class
MindMixer last week announced it has been chosen to participate in the first Code for America Accelerator, a four-month program run by Code for America designed to give tech-based civic startups the network and training they need to grow. MindMixer, an Omaha startup that makes a web-based platform for community engagement, was one of seven…
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In new video, Kauffman fellow looks at funding of women-owned firms
Women own about 30 percent of businesses but access only about five percent of the equity capital doled out each year, Alicia Robb says in the latest installment of the Kauffman Sketchbook series. In the Sketchbook, Robb (left), a senior research fellow at the Kansas City, Mo.-based Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, explores the challenges women…
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T8 Webware becomes Banno, hints at future products
T8 Webware unveiled today its new name, Banno, and its broader focus on building personal finance apps. “The Banno story is really our kind of change the world story,” Wade Arnold, CEO of the 4 year old Cedar Falls-based company, said in a phone interview Monday. “It’s somewhat of a coming out …