May 21, 2014

  • 1 Week KC is back, with a focus on bringing community together

    It’s that time of year again—the sun is shining, the birds are singing and 1 Week KC is just around the corner. So block off some time on your calendar between Monday, June 9, and Sunday, June 15, when the Kansas City community gathers to celebrate entrepreneurship. Unlike in years past, the organizers of 1…

  • Chamber’s startup leader starts up his own project with RaceNote

    Dusty Reynolds’ passion for racing began as a 12-year-old in Hooper, Neb., a town of 850 an hour outside Omaha. He swept garage floors of a dirt car-racing friend. By the time he hit high school, he was a crew chief of a team and for a while after school traveled around the country working…

  • Cisco will turn Kansas City into a test lab for the Internet of Things

    Kansas City, Mo., could be getting a lot smarter thanks to Cisco Systems. In a public-private partnership, the City will work with Cisco to beta test a “smart city” network that uses sensors and other technology to bring back information on city issues…

  • Ingrid Sanders’ talk in a 5-minute Tapestry recap

    Don’t have 30 minutes to watch a Big Omaha speaker video? No problem. Our friends at Tapestry have compiled many of the highlights of our speaker talks into easily digestible, readable presentations. Be on the lookout over the next week, as we’ll be sharing a Tapestry for each of our speakers. It’s simple: tap to…

  • The startup that grew from inside a 152-year-old Fortune 150 company

    One of Nebraska’s newest software companies looks and sounds like a startup, and it tends to act like one. It’s got five young developer employees. Its products are mobile-based and innovative like a lot of startups. Its website looks like any other. The team practices lean principals. But there’s something inherently different about Valvora, a…