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Global Entrepreneurship Week is back Nov. 17-23
KANSAS CITY—More than 150 communities from around the world are just over a month away from celebrating the seventh annual Global Entrepreneurship Week…
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KU social entrepreneurship panel streamed at 10:30 a.m. today
This morning, Silicon Prairie News CEO Regan Carrizales will moderate a panel on social entrepreneurship at the University of Kansas School of Business beginning at 10:30 a.m, which will be live streamed on the School’s site. The panel will consist of Jeremy Farmer, Lawrence city commissioner and chief executive of Douglas County food bank Just Food;…
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Why corporations should care about startups and entrepreneurs
As a large corporation participating in the startup space, one of Sprint’s core objectives is to help cultivate an entrepreneurial community in Kansas City. If you are like me, you are still learning exactly what that means. Clearly there are benefits to engaging in this space, but what are those benefits? Why should corporations care…
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Watch 24 companies present at Kauffman’s Demo Day (Video)
More than 20 companies kicked off Global Entrepreneurship Week earlier this month by taking part in the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s second Startup@Kauffman Demo Day. “I think Mr. (Kauffman) would’ve absolutely loved this event,” Kauffman Foundation’s Cameron Cushman said, noting the event combined Kauffman’s love for entrepreneurship and love for Kansas City. Though the event…
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On Senate floor, Moran gives nod to two Kansas startups (Video)
Sen. Jerry Moran used the occasion of Global Entrepreneurship Week last week as an opportunity to take the floor of the U.S. Senate on Tuesday and make another pitch for Startup Act 2.0, a bill he co-sponsored to “address critical needs facing entrepreneurs today.” The senator from Kansas opened his pitch, as he has done…
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Photos from our BIG party, the unveiling of Big Kansas City
More than 120 members of the Kansas City startup community joined us Tuesday in the Wine Vault at Coal Vines to be the first to learn the details of our promised “big announcement.” We kicked off the program with the introduction of three new sponsors that will help us support a full-time team in Kansas…
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Join us tonight at 6 for a BIG Global Entrepreneurship Week shindig
If you caught the Startup@Kauffman Demo Day or helped break a world record for speed networking, your Global Entrepreneurship Week fun has only just begun. Tonight, Silicon Prairie News is …
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Welcome to Sprint, one of SPN’s Kansas City Launch Partners
Today we’re excited to introduce our first sponsor among an amazing group of businesses whose support is making our full-time presence in Kansas City possible. Sprint, the telecommunications giant that calls Kansas City home, is a Kansas City …
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Here’s the Global Entrepreneurship Week schedule for the Silicon Prairie
Global Entrepreneurship Week turns 5 this year, and people in 130 countries are getting in on the celebration. Billed by its organizers as “the world’s largest celebration of the innovators and job creators who launch startups that bring ideas to life, drive economic growth and expand human welfare,” GEW is a week-long, worldwide series of…
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Watch the Startup@Kauffman Demo Day live stream
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation begins its celebration of Global Entrepreneurship Week today with the second rendition of Startup@Kauffman Demo Day at its Kansas City, Mo. headquarters. For those who can’t attend the event, a live stream (above) will be available throughout the day. The broadcast began around 8:15 a.m. and will run until 2:50…