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  • turnstone, Homes for Hackers bring Small Talks to KC on Sept. 19

    Small Talks by turnstone are far from small. In fact, they are turning heads and making waves across the nation as a grassroots way for entrepreneurs to connect around the issues most pressing to small-business owners and startups. Small Talks not only provide a safe venue for open dialogue and discussion…

  • FBI pays a friendly visit to Homes for Hackers, Kansas City Startup Village

    It’s not every day the FBI comes a-knocking. So it’s understandable that Ben Barreth was unnerved when a Homes for Hackers tenant from the startup TravelingNuker.com sent him a message that a special agent had stopped by: “Nothing to worry about though, he’s just reaching out…

  • TravelingNuker.com helps plant workers fuse a consistent schedule

    A startup that’s found a temporary home in Ben Barreth’s Hacker House wants to help mobile union tradesmen find temporary “outage” work at the nation’s 63 nuclear power plants using its new database. Occassionally nuclear plants shut down––often during spring and fall when energy demand is lowest––for routine maintenance TravelingNuker.com provides upcoming maintenance …

  • Take a stroll through Ben Barreth’s Hacker House in Kansas City

    Homes for Hackers founder Ben Barreth (above right, in cardboard cutout form) recently opened up the pad with the help of Google Street View Business Photos. The Hacker House rents space to developers, providing access to high-speed Google Fiber (and complementary towels, among other things) in the Kansas City Startup Village …

  • Homes for Hackers founder lands on Government Technology cover

    Kansas City Startup Village has been covered by media far and wide, but it has yet to land on a magazine cover. Ben Barreth, creator of the Homes for Hackers program, did just that this week, making it onto the front of Government Technology magazine, a publication focused on information …

  • Slate columnist finds Google Fiber’s potential yet to be tapped

    Slate’s Farhad Manjoo visited Kansas City in January to explore Google Fiber’s capabilities and came away resigned, not knowing how to take advantage of the gigabit speeds. He toured the Google Fiber Space and talked with two entrepreneurs in Homes for Hackers …

  • Grassroots KC Startup Village fuels high hopes amid uncertain outcomes

    Mike Farmer has spent time in Silicon Valley and New York, but he says he hasn’t seen anything quite like what’s springing up along State Line Road in Kansas City. Farmer is the founder and CEO of Kansas City, Kan.-based mobile search startup Leap2, and his company is part of Kansas City Startup Village (KCSV),…