Kansas City
Behold the power of the T-shirt.
It was fitting in a way that CraftWig, the only team to don matching T-shirts for Startup Weekend Kansas City final demonstrations on Sunday, walked away from the bizperc office space as the winner of SWKC.
CraftWig, an online community for crafters that offers in-depth tutorials, shopping lists, price comparison and sharing, finished first among the eight teams that participated …
Read MoreJoin us around 6:30 p.m. for live-streaming of demo pitches from the eight teams at Startup Weekend Kansas City.
Read MoreOur editor, Michael Stacy, is both competing in and covering his first Startup Weekend at the moment and while he’s currently doing the former with his team, My …
Read MoreQuoth great Kevin McCallister (because when isn’t a Home Alone quote at least marginally appropriate?): This is it. Don’t get scared now.
Just a few hours stand between Startup Weekend Kansas City participants and their final presentations, which get underway at 6:30 p.m. here at the bizperc office space.
Rest assured, “getting scared” won’t be a problem here. Teams seem far more excited than apprehensive, thanks to a busy second day of Startup Weekend on Saturday. Folks hit …
Read MoreDay 2 of Startup Weekend Kansas City kicked off this morning on the heels of an energetic opening night. For starters, attendees on Friday enjoyed dinner, Boulevard beer and spectacular downtown views from the sixth floor of the bizperc office space.
Co-organizer Adam Coomes served as emcee for the evening, and ice-breaking games got the group’s collective startup juices flowing. Dwolla CEO Ben Milne was the featured speaker for …
Read MorePicture a weekend-long event in which you could meet new people, promote your idea and take that idea to the next level in just under 54 hours. I know, the thought of taking that idea to a social event and bringing it to fruition in a weekend seems insane, but this is exactly what happens at Startup Weekend. …
Read MoreThe speed of startup progress in one of the Silicon Prairie’s hubs is about to become significantly swifter. Google announced today that it will build its ultra high-speed …
Read MoreA West Coast-based venture capital firm with operations in San Francisco and Seattle has added a Silicon Prairie location to its stable. Indie Ventures, which focuses on funding and business development for digital media …
Read MoreIf you want a chance to be a part of the next Zaarly or LaunchRock, you should sign up to attend Startup Weekend Kansas City.
The event will break up developers …
An idea that jokingly turned into a tech challenge back in March 2010, the Startup bus stopped in at Kauffman Labs in Kansas City while en route to South by Southwest Interactive. StartupBus, the idea that coined the word “Buspreneurs,” is an all-out 48-hour challenge to build a minimum viable product, but there’s a twist: the tech entrepreneurs…
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