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The Kansas City Startup Village permit issue: explained
Two weeks ago, a small army of Kansas City entrepreneurs descended on the Planning Commission meeting in Kansas City, Kansas. Here’s why. Entrepreneurs are not known for their patience, and a room full of them listening through appeals on sign location was a strange sight. Their sudden interest in the zoning laws, however, was the…
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Kickstarter Staff Pick: Wichita-based Filimin
“I wanted to give us a way to express that we love each other in a simple, unobtrusive way, a way that is totally separated from the computer, cell phone, and that hectic communication, something that is part of the warmth of your ambient environment.”
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Q&A with Sen. Jerry Moran of Kansas, sponsor of Startup Act 2.0
Startup Act 2.0, a bill introduced last month by a group of U.S. Senators that included Sen. Jerry Moran of Kansas, aims to make success come easier to entrepreneurs, allow businesses to recruit bright minds from all over the world and retain foreign college graduates who want to start businesses in the U.S. The original…
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Study ranks Silicon Prairie states in Pro-Business Top 10
From our friends at the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce comes a new study result highlighting a few states in the Silicon Prairie… The study, “Pollina Corporate Top 10 Pro-Business States for 2009: Rebuilding American’s Economic Power,” evaluates and ranks states based on 33 factors, including taxes, human resources, right-to-work legislation, energy costs, infrastructure spending,…