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  • Local Ruckus lands Sprint as customer, partner for national push

    Local Ruckus, one of the Kansas City Startup Village’s original residents, has found its first major customer and distribution partner in neighborhood telecom giant Sprint. The site—founded in February 2011, re-launched in August 2012—provides a “hub for local businesses to manage and publish events to their websites and social media networks” and intends to be…

  • Kansas City Startup Village opens door for post-1 Million Cups meetings

    The Kansas City Startup Village (KCSV) wants to invite its neighbors over for dinner, er, meetings. Fresh off 1 Million Cups’ weekly Wednesday gatherings at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the KCSV has been sticking around for an hour-long discussion at 10:30 a.m. (left). Topics have been fairly limited to the Village’s challenges and initiatives,…

  • Local entrepreneurs give inaugural Big Kansas City a lift

    Midwestern hospitality takes many forms, like a home-cooked meal or a “What can I get you?” Our inaugural Big Kansas City event last month was welcomed into the community by a group of entrepreneurs who wanted to get the local Big Series event off to a rousing start. Weeks before the event, Claude Aldridge (right),…

  • Google Fiber to the Pole answers gigabit need outside the home

    Kansas Citians with Google Fiber are spoiled by gigabit speeds when they’re at home, but how do they access the ultrafast internet connection when they’re on the go? “We realized that the answer was all around us—utility poles,” Michael Plump, product lead for Fiber to the Pole, said today on the Google Fiber …

  • Brad Feld, Startup Village get second chance at Google Fiber

    Google on Thursday told residents in its first “fiberhood,” Hanover Heights in Kansas City, Kan., that it reopened Google Fiber registration for two weeks. “Many properties didn’t realize the impact and value of Fiber before the initial registration period was closed,” Kansas City Startup Village leader Adam Arredondo (right) said Thursday in an email …

  • Grassroots KC Startup Village fuels high hopes amid uncertain outcomes

    Mike Farmer has spent time in Silicon Valley and New York, but he says he hasn’t seen anything quite like what’s springing up along State Line Road in Kansas City. Farmer is the founder and CEO of Kansas City, Kan.-based mobile search startup Leap2, and his company is part of Kansas City Startup Village (KCSV),…

  • New “built” badges promote Silicon Prairie, Kansas City pride

    A pair of Silicon Prairie companies this week introduced easy ways to help their neighbors tout their Midwestern roots. Goodtwin, an Omaha digital agency, today launched Silicon Prairie Built (above), a site that encourages startups in and around Omaha, Des Moines and Kansas City to identify themselves as Silicon Prairie shops. Silicon Prairie Built offers…

  • Google puts Kansas City home shared by startups at front of Fiber line

    A Kansas City, Kan. house shared by three startups will be one of the first to receive Google Fiber in the Kansas City area. “We’re working with a small group of pre-selected customers to test out everything before we officially launch to our customer installation program,” Google Fiber spokesperson Jenna Wandres said in a phone…

  • After re-starting from scratch, Local Ruckus sporting all-new look

    Nearly a year into working on Local Ruckus, Adam Arredondo decided that in order for the Kansas City startup to move forward, it would have to take a step back. Make that several steps back. “We decided,” Arredondo said, “to start from scratch.” Arredondo founded Local Ruckus in February 2011, and the web-based tool for…

  • Local Ruckus looks to get people off computers, into community

    No matter how in tune you are to the social calendar, there’s always something going on in your town that you miss simply because you didn’t know about it …