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Startup founders meet with legislators, share community stories
For many entrepreneurs, interacting with government leaders isn’t part of the day-to-day routine. And while it still may not be an everyday occurrence, in the past few months, increasingly more Silicon Prairie founders and leaders have taken their stories to legislators in an effort to have their voices heard and their communities’ needs met …
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KC update: Hoopla.io wins big in Dallas, Sock 101 hits Kickstarter goal
Success is contagious in Kansas City right now. Knoda just announced it has secured seed funding from a local investor, topping off another pair of recent success. First, Hoopla.io, the event discovery platform that recently began its national content expansion, went down to Dallas last week for Miller Lite’s Tap the Future pitch competition and came…
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Hoopla.io starts national push, needs votes for national pitch competition
Hoopla.io, the platform for local event discovery that spawned from Local Ruckus, only recently launched its site October 1. So if you didn’t know what the hubbub was all about, now you can learn more while helping them win a national competition on their way …
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Local Ruckus’ next stage, event platform Hoopla.io, goes live
Local Ruckus has been a mainstay of the Kansas City Startup Village since day one in October 2012. But since Adam Arredondo founded the company back in February 2011, the events-discovery startup has gone through several stages…