December 31, 2012

  • Paper explores assets, obstacles for KC entrepreneurial community

    The Kansas City area in the last half-decade has seen increases in entrepreneurial exits, funding for young companies and collective energy behind entrepreneurship, a paper released earlier this month asserts, but obstacles still stand in the way of Kansas City’s entrepreneurial community moving from “fragmented to collaborative.” The paper, “Entrepreneurial Community in Kansas City: From…

  • Des Moines startup, KC high-speed internet top year’s 10 biggest stories

    An Omaha startup signed a TV deal, a Columbia, Mo. startup went from Startup Weekend to Y Combinator in eight months and a Kansas City entrepreneur who sold his company for more than $125 million last year returned to found another startup and fund others. These are three of my picks for the year’s 10…