Big 5

  • One Week KC aims to promote city’s big entrepreneurial aspirations

    It’s a week so chock-full of entrepreneurial activity that it can’t be contained to just seven days. One Week KC, a series of events designed to inspire, educate and connect Kansas City entrepreneurs, kicks off June 18 and runs through June 26, featuring nine days of events aimed at celebrating and raising the profile of…

  • Prairie Moves: Internet Solver, PeggyBank, Jordan Lampe and more

    Published Tuesdays and Fridays, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please email editor@siliconprairienews.com. And if…

  • KC Chamber leaders discuss making of ‘most entrepreneurial city’ (Video)

    Following the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce’s Tuesday announcement of its “Big 5” ideas for improving Kansas City, a quartet of the Chamber’s top dogs sat down to discuss that quintet of ideas with Nick Haines for Friday’s episode of Kansas City Week In Review. Joining Haines were: Jim Heeter, Chamber president and CEO;…

  • As part of ‘Big 5,’ Chamber aims to make KC ‘most entrepreneurial city’

    Within five years, Kansas City will represent the pinnacle of entrepreneurship in the United States, at least if the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce has its way. The Chamber on Tuesday announced “the making of America’s most entrepreneurial city” as one of its “Big 5” ideas for the Kansas City area over the next…