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AgLocal, Dwolla named on Fast Company innovative companies lists
Two Silicon Prairie startups gained national recognition today when Fast Company released its 2014 list of “The World’s Most Innovative Companies” online. Kansas City’s AgLocal…
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As press piles up, AgLocal announces board, eyes investment
AgLocal, one of Kansas City’s most talked-about tech startups of 2012, has teamed with Thad Langford, the executive behind one of Kansas City’s most ballyhooed tech acquisitions of 2011. And — no surprise here — the startup continues to garner plenty of attention from investors and media outlets alike. More on that alliance and those…
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Tech innovation helps Sporting Kansas City earn more recognition
The parade of praise from high-profile publications continues for Sporting Kansas City, Livestrong Sporting Park and Sporting Innovations. Kansas City’s Major League Soccer franchise and the team’s high-tech home stadium and tech-centric spin-off all have received recognition recently in the national media, and it seems to stem in part from the …
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Sporting Innovations gets Fast Company ink for stadium technology
The reason for the attention might make the purest fans of soccer — or, as they would call it, football — cringe, but Kansas City-based Sporting Innovations gets some significant ink in the March issue of Fast Company on account of the work it has done at Livestrong Sporting Park in Kansas City, Kan. “MLS…
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Fast Company co-founder talks innovation, leadership at Fast KC
The Kansas City Area Development Council (KCADC) had its annual luncheon, Fast KC, last Friday and shared progress on regional commerce and plans for the future of Kansas City region. The progress report indicated Kansas City has fostered significant job creation, with the expansion of companies like Cerner boosting the regional economy. Bill Taylor, co-founder…
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Fast Company: ‘Why You Should Start a Company in… Kansas City’
Yesterday, Fast Company magazine continued its online series highlighting entrepreneurial hubs around the country. Once again, they’ve landed in the Silicon Prairie. This time, in the “world’s barbecue capital,” Kansas City. The article, “Why You Should Start a Company in… Kansas City,” is an interview with Bo Fishback, vice president of entrepreneurship…
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Fast Company: ‘Why You Should Start a Company in… Omaha’
Today, Fast Company published an article featuring Omaha and the reasons that our city is a great place to start a company. Titled, “Why You Should Start a Company in…Omaha,” it’s part of an ongoing Fast Company series highlighting emerging entrepreneurial hubs around the country. Special thanks to Laura Rich, freelance writer and co-founder of…
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Fast Company co-founder Bill Taylor talks innovation & entrepreneurship
Here is the last of three posts in a series of interviews with the keynote speakers of this year’s Greater Omaha Young Professionals Summit, which is taking place this Thursday, March 4. Bill Taylor is the co-founder and founding editor of Fast Company magazine as well as the author of Mavericks at Work, a New…
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Nothing but good from @badbanana
A couple of big props came out last week for Tim Siedell, Creative Director at Lincoln-based Fuse Industries, for his wit behind the Twitter account @badbanna. Thanks to consistently hilarious 140 characters or less statements like the one above, @badbanana has over 160,000 followers. That number is sure to continue growing thanks to being named…
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