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  • Update: MECA Challenge screening delayed, new details to come

    At the end of September, teams of high school and college students paired with mentors to solve real-world technology problems faced by local businesses at the first MECA Innovation Challenge …

  • Two Kansas City Startup Village leaders reflect on its first birthday

    There have been plenty of heart-to-heart conversations between Adam Arredondo and Matthew Marcus over the last year about balancing work on their startup with a new startup. The Local Ruckus co-founders—and now, Hoopla.io executives …

  • KCSV competition to give students a shot at solving real-world problems

    Students are about to get an early crack at the real world courtesy the Kansas City Startup Village. Leaders of the KCSV will host the inaugural Most Entrepreneurial City in America Youth Technology Innovation Challenge September 25-29 at the University of Missouri–Kansas City and other locations. High school and college students—120 in all, with the…

  • FBI pays a friendly visit to Homes for Hackers, Kansas City Startup Village

    It’s not every day the FBI comes a-knocking. So it’s understandable that Ben Barreth was unnerved when a Homes for Hackers tenant from the startup TravelingNuker.com sent him a message that a special agent had stopped by: “Nothing to worry about though, he’s just reaching out…

  • Multi-platinum band Live tours KCSV, may replicate in its hometown

    Multi-platinum rock band Live took a pit stop Sunday, July 28 in the Kansas City Startup Village on its way to the Summerland Tour show at Cricket Wireless Amphitheater. Turns out a few of the band members are entrepreneurs themselves, running Think Loud Holdings, and are especially interested in fiber Internet—they have ownerships in United…

  • Startup Village to receive funding foundation from NetWork Kansas

    It takes more than people to build a village–money usually plays a large role as well. Recently Kansas City Startup Village has had considerable momentum with startups like Leap2 getting funding, but now the group has much more to build upon with help from NetWork Kansas, an entrepreneurial resource that works with statewide partners. According to the…

  • 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,…

  • Houston student leaves Kansas City hackathon winner, fan of community

    Thanks to an all-expenses-paid trip earlier this year, a University of Houston student discovered the Kansas City startup community. The student, Andrew Douglass, a management information systems major, in March earned a trip to participate in “Hacking the Gigabit City.” …

  • How Handprint landed in KC and won free rent in Feld’s Fiberhouse

    Handprint, a 3D printing software startup, recently put down roots in Brad Feld’s Fiberhouse in Kansas City Startup Village, but how did the four-person team land here and why did the Boulder, Colo.-based investor choose them? The team—Mike Demarais, Alexa Nguyen, Jack Franzen and Derek Caneja—initially met in Boston. Its presence in Kansas City began…

  • New video answers question, “What is the Kansas City Startup Village?”

    True to form, individuals volunteering their time and talent made the first video to highlight the Kansas City Startup Village. Matthew Marcus, co-founder of the Startup Village, thanked the “give first, get later” actions of those involved in creating “the first KCSV video helping outsiders (and insiders) better understand just what is happening in this…