Sly James

  • Mayor unveils Launch KC, effort to attract and develop tech business

    They didn’t shout it, per se, but Kansas City leaders took a rooftop Monday to announce news about Launch KC, a new effort to attract tech entrepreneurs and companies to the Crossroads Arts District and Greater Downtown Kansas City. Kansas City, Mo. mayor Sly James and Mayors’ Bistate Innovations Team co-chairman Mike Burke led a…

  • Google to bundle TV with Fiber, roll out high-speed service by demand

    Google today revealed more about the vision for the future of its Fiber project, and that vision is in high-definition. Google Fiber, the company’s first large-scale foray into providing internet service, will also feature a prominent and potentially disruptive HD television offering. And all of that technology could be available to residential customers in parts…

  • At CityCampKC, Mayors urge collaboration: ‘To go far, go together’

    Citizens and elected officials from both sides of State Line Road rallied together last weekend at the inaugural CityCampKC, collaborating in a new forum aimed at developing next generation solutions for the Kansas City community. During a keynote on Saturday, Kansas City, Mo. Mayor Sly James and Wyandotte County Unified Government Mayor Joe Reardon expressed…

  • Kauffman Sketchbook: Kansas City is the ‘City of Entrepreneurs’ (Video)

    “The entrepreneurial spirit in Kansas City,” says one of the video’s narrators, “is stronger than the lines that separate us.” That narrator, Kansas City, Mo. Mayor Sly James, is referring to the state boarder separating the Missouri and Kansas sides of Kansas City. And though the state line has served as a point of contention…

  • KC mayors talk about becoming ‘governmental entrepreneurs’ (Video)

    Following the Kansas City mayors’ remarks at Startup Weekend Kansas City on September 12, the two took time for an interview with us about what brought them out to event and, as Kansas City, Mo. Mayor Sly James discussed in his talk, what it means to be “governmental entrepreneurs.” “When a business moves to a…

  • Kansas City mayors speak at Startup Weekend KC (full video)

    Over lunch on Saturday at Startup Weekend Kansas City, Kansas City, Kan. Mayor Joe Reardon and Kansas City, Mo. Mayor Sly James stopped to meet some of the participants, deliver remarks on entrepreneurship, innovation and Google Fiber in Kansas City as well as open themselves up to a 20-minute Q&A. We’ve captured their 10-minute remarks…

  • Kansas City mayors form Innovation Team to capitalize on Google Fiber

    Upload and download speeds, it appears, are far from the only things that will be accelerated by the arrival of Google’s Ultra-High Speed Network in Kansas City. The impending installation of the Google Fiber network has also helped jump-start a collaborative effort between city governments of both Kansas Citys. Sly James, the mayor of Kansas…