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How Ulytic solves urban traffic problems in real time
Several years ago, the Ulytic team met each other at a mobile app competition that Microsoft was hosting at the University of Missouri. Since then, the team has rolled out an app and a platform. They have been concentrating on their current platform Ulytic for the last year. How Ulytic works Ulytic is an urban…
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Meet Liberty, the Uber-like service built for rural America
Many rural residents across the U.S. rely on public transportation for medical appointments, shopping and other necessities. But distance and a limited number of providers can make this challenging. A startup in the NMotion Accelerator is changing that. Liberty, a spinoff from Integrated Global Dimensions (IGD), is filling the gap through an Uber-like application that…
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LifeLoop expands to new states, new communities
Since December the LifeLoop team has hired 3 new employees, expanded into 2 more states and doubled the communities they serve. Recent growth at LifeLoop marks their transition from initial product development to customer acquisition. “We’re definitely in the scale phase of focusing on sales,” said Amy Johnson, founder. The digital communication platform handles over 1,200 users…
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Quickdraw Studios gamifies marketing to drive cultural change
In 2015 at a craft beer festival in Wichita, Kan., two graduate students were inspired by a brewery logo to create their own business. Nicolas Gallo and Cody Harryman brainstormed and soon Quickdraw Studios was born. The tech startup emerged as a video game marketing tool built to assist business branding and promotional outreach. Gallo…
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Pear Deck expands from Iowa City into Kansas City
Iowa City-based edtech startup Pear Deck is expanding its sales team into Kansas City this summer. The decision follows the hire of Nick De Buyl as VP of Sales, who was previously the Director of Sales for Netchemia, a Kansas City education startup which was acquired by PeopleAdmin out of Austin in February 2015. “I felt like…
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Omnipointment helps busy college students get organized
For the Omnipointment team, everything started during a hackathon at Northwestern University in Chicago last November. “I was in Lincoln at the time and [Vinesh] was going to the hackathon, and he called me and told me, ‘We have to build this, it’s a really cool idea,’” said Brendan Batliner, co-founder, Omnipointment. “So I worked…
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LeverageRx helps doctors connect with financial experts
A startup in the current NMotion Accelerator class is creating an online marketplace to help physicians and dentists with their finances. “By the time a doctor gets through undergrad, med school, residency, and into practice, it may be 10 years longer than someone going to work after an undergrad degree,” said Colin Nabity, founder of LeverageRX.…
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Lyconic brings new technology to the security industry
The technology behind Omaha-based Lyconic has been in the works for nearly ten years. In 2003, Shea Degan, co-founder of Lyconic, started a private contract security company, Signal 88 Security, as a way to supplement his income. What started as a few extra security jobs, soon turned into more projects than Degan could handle. So,…
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b.Legal’s Chris Brown and Christina Hergott on marketing for lawyers [VIDEO]
When Chris Brown and Christina Hergott started b.Legal Marketing in Kansas City they thought building web sites for law firms would be easy. “[We were thinking] ‘Oh, we’re going to build web sites for lawyers. This will be easy,’” said Hergott. “But there’s so many other things that go into it. We can really be a resource for…
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Why Dwolla made its transactions free (and what happened next)
Des Moines-based payments company Dwolla decided a year ago to make all its transactions free. The company had started in 2010 with free transactions under $10 and 25-cents for all transactions over $10. “That worked out really well for a long time,” said Jordan Lampe, Director of Communications and Policy at Dwolla. “But what we started seeing was…