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If you (re)build it, they will come
(Guest post by Nathan Benjamin.) I don’t pretend to have a fail-proof recipe for a successful business, but I do know that for us, it’s about purpose, the planet and a bunch of people who all see a baseball game where others see only a field. A recent study in The Wall Street Journal found…
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InvenQuery gets $650k from Dundee to enhance tech, customer outreach
InvenQuery, a Prairie Village, Kan. startup that provides technology to help retailers of unique merchandise handle inventory, point-of-sale and e-commerce, today announced $650,000 in Series A funding from Dundee Venture Capital of Omaha. That investment, coupled with $450,000 in angel funding …
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PlanetReuse awarded $250,000 grant from Chase and LivingSocial
Kansas City startup PlanetReuse has been selected as one of 12 recipients of a $250,000 grant from the Chase and LivingSocial program Mission: Small Business. The company, which we last covered in June, was chosen from a pool of close to 70,000 applicants from across the U.S. During the application process, owners of businesses that…
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InvenQuery powers the ‘Amazon.com for reclaimed building materials’
PlanetReuse recently gained national media attention for its plan to encourage the reuse of building materials, but InvenQuery, the technology that powers it, is just beginning to grow. The two Kansas City, Mo. companies share the same leadership team of Nathan Benjamin and Willow Lundgren. Benjamin has been building PlanetReuse for four years, and the…
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PlanetReuse one of ‘America’s Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs’
PlanetReuse, a Kansas City, Mo. company that aims to reduce construction and demolition waste, was one of 25 companies honored on Bloomberg Businessweek’s list of “America’s Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs.” “For-profit business can be an instrument for social change,” PlanetReuse partner and chief strategy officer Willow Lundgren said Wednesday. Nathan Benjamin, principal and founder, started…
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Digital developer, business analyst, marketing intern and more
We’re excited to bring you our 102nd Opportunities on The Prairie today from all over the region. If you have an opportunity to add, please register your positions using our Job …
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Think Big Partners embarks on ‘field trip’ with 10 Midwestern startups
At a time of year when winter-weary travelers flock to sun-splashed beaches for spring break, 10 Midwestern startups are embarking on a coastal excursion of their own. But there won’t be much of a “break” involved in this spring trip. Think Big Partners, the Kansas City …