Kansas City

  • ‘Gigabit City’ ideas to be reviewed at Thursday event

    The Brainzooming Group will publicly unveil the report from the Building the Gigabit City brainstorming session at 10 a.m. Thursday at Kansas City’s …

  • Entrepreneurs Unpluggd coming to Kansas City on Nov. 15

    Entrepreneurs Unpluggd, an event produced by a duo from Chicago with an aim to create an intimate and engaging environment for entrepreneurs to learn from other entrepreneurs, will take place for the first time in Kansas City on Tuesday, Nov. 15 at the Screenland Crown Center. Themed “How To Find Your First Customers,” this edition…

  • Live-streaming: SMCKC hosting event to talk ‘Building the Gigabit City’

    We’re woefully behind on getting the word out about this, but today the Social Media Club of Kansas City (SMCKC) is bringing together thought leaders from around the community for Building the Gigabit City, a daylong brainstorming session …

  • PrairieCast with Tej Dhawan of StartupCity & Startup Weekend ticket giveaway (Video)

    This week on PrairieCast, we turn the model on its side! Andy and our guest, Tej Dwahan of Startup City Des Moines, are live in our studio in the Midland Building, and I join via Skype from the Kauffman Foundation’s headquarters in Kansas City. Dwahan’s incubator project is close to launching, and he shared lots…

  • Prairie Moves: StartupCity, QuickCal, OneLouder and more

    Published Tuesdays and Thursdays, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please email editor@siliconprairienews.com. And if…

  • Sporting Kansas City launching sports entertainment company

    It’s commonplace to hear stories of startups born out of corporations. But tech companies spun off from soccer clubs? That’s the story behind a brand-new company in Kansas City, Kan. The Kansas City Business Journal reports that Sporting Kansas City, Kansas City’s Major league Soccer franchise, today is launching a company called Sporting Innovations, which…

  • KC Chamber leaders discuss making of ‘most entrepreneurial city’ (Video)

    Following the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce’s Tuesday announcement of its “Big 5” ideas for improving Kansas City, a quartet of the Chamber’s top dogs sat down to discuss that quintet of ideas with Nick Haines for Friday’s episode of Kansas City Week In Review. Joining Haines were: Jim Heeter, Chamber president and CEO;…

  • Kansas City video blogger gives sneak peek of $413m Kauffman Center

    Anticipation is coming to an end in Kansas City as the $413 million Kauffman Center for Performing Arts will celebrate its grand opening this weekend with a pair of performances in its two venues, the 1,600-seat Helzberg Hall and the 1,800-seat Muriel Kauffman Theatre. The latter of which, along with the Center’s name, is named…

  • As part of ‘Big 5,’ Chamber aims to make KC ‘most entrepreneurial city’

    Within five years, Kansas City will represent the pinnacle of entrepreneurship in the United States, at least if the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce has its way. The Chamber on Tuesday announced “the making of America’s most entrepreneurial city” as one of its “Big 5” ideas for the Kansas City area over the next…

  • Save the date: Startup Weekend Kansas City happening Nov. 11-13

    It was announced this morning that the fourth Startup Weekend Kansas City will be taking place November 11-13 at Cerner Innovation Campus. If you’re unable to make it to Omaha’s event later this month, Sept. 16-18, make sure to put this one on your calendar and consider attending. At Startup Weekend, small teams of developers,…