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Catch a lift with us to the Silicon Prairie Awards on August 29
NOTE: Bus tickets are currently sold out for the event. You put in the hard work to build companies, disrupt industries and raise the visibility of the Silicon Prairie across the country and we’re along with you for the entire ride. Once a year we take the opportunity to celebrate our amazing startup community, and…
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Nominations for Omaha, Kansas City Chamber awards due Friday
Two awards honoring startups in Omaha and Kansas City are quickly nearing their nomination deadline. Friday is the last day to put a company’s name in for the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce’s “Innovator of the Year” award and the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce’s “Aspirational Entrepreneur” award. The Omaha Chamber’s award, which is…
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Kansas City’s collaborative spirit lies at heart of inaugural iKC
Collaboration. It’s not an “i” word, so it didn’t fit neatly into the branding of iKC, a conference that aimed to innovate, ignite and inspire. But collaboration was an awfully popular topic on Wednesday at H&R Block world headquarters in Kansas City, Mo. For one, the very existence of the conference was a testament to…
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Connections, collaboration cited as key for KC at Big Idea Exchange
Endeavoring to make a place “America’s most entrepreneurial” is nice in concept. It’s the sort of ambition that can generate all kinds of energy and provide fodder for countless conversations. But how, pray tell, does a city go about delivering on those discussions? What’s the best way to convert conversation into action? And, once that…
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One Week KC aims to promote city’s big entrepreneurial aspirations
It’s a week so chock-full of entrepreneurial activity that it can’t be contained to just seven days. One Week KC, a series of events designed to inspire, educate and connect Kansas City entrepreneurs, kicks off June 18 and runs through June 26, featuring nine days of events aimed at celebrating and raising the profile of…
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Think Big and KC Chamber announce name of new conference, IgniteKC
A contest to pick the name of a new Kansas City conference on innovation and entrepreneurship has ended. The organizations behind it, Think Big Kansas City and the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, announced today it will be called IgniteKC. The new conference is a combination of two other events – the Chamber’s Innovation…
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KC Chamber, Think Big and H&R Block team up for new conference
The Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce and Think Big Partners today announced that they are teaming up with H&R Block to host a new innovation and entrepreneurship conference later this year. The all-day conference, which is a combination of two events — the Chamber’s Innovation Conference and Think Big Kansas City — that were…
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Prairie Moves: Heath Gerlock, Moblico and Swappa
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…
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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;…