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  • One Million Cups’ Nate Olson talks at TEDxCoMo, answers our questions

    One million of anything is a lot. About a year ago, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s Nate Olson set out to reach that many cups of coffee within the Kansas City startup community when he helped created 1 Million Cups (1MC), a weekly program that provides two startups the opportunity to present their companies to an…

  • Kauffman’s annual index shows drop in entrepreneurial activity

    The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s annual Index of Entrepreneurial Activity, released Wednesday, shows overall business creation slowed in 2012. As the unemployment rate dropped, so did the number of new business owners. The rate fell from 0.32 percent of American adults …

  • RareWire, Neighbor.ly leaders part of KC’s 30-member Challenge Cabinet

    The first Kansas City, Mo., Mayor’s Challenge Cabinet has been stocked with 30 young professionals from a variety of industries in public and private sectors. Mayor Sly James opened applications for his advisory panel Jan. 30 and recognized the appointees—narrowed from 160 applicants—at his State of the City Address on March 19. The Cabinet is…

  • Kauffman Foundation’s Thom Ruhe calls community “a form of currency”

    It doesn’t matter where you are in the world, there are communities to be built and strengthened. From Kansas City to Bangladesh, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation vice president of entrepreneurship Thom Ruhe is spreading the message. In his presentation at our Big Kansas City event last week, Ruhe focused on the story of Sohael Chowdhury,…

  • A Big Kansas City thanks to our lead sponsor, the Kauffman Foundation

    As we kick off the inaugural Big Kansas City this evening at the Opening Party (8 p.m at Missouri Bank), it’s only fitting that the title sponsor is The Kauffman Foundation. No single organization has provided more support to The Big Series since it’s inception and it’s great to have their support once again as…

  • How to hack a gigabit city

    This weekend, about 100 hackers, developers and visionaries will gather in the City of Fountains for Hacking the Gigabit City, an event aimed at creating and developing the advanced uses for the ultra-high-speed connectivity that Google Fiber is bringing to Kansas City. Our local organizations—the Kauffman Foundation and KC Digital Drive—have partnered with the national…

  • Applications to live in Brad Feld’s FiberHouse due Monday

    Entrepreneurs have less than a week to apply for free rent and work space in a Kansas City, Kan. house purchased by Boulder, Colo. investor and author Brad Feld. Those with an idea that maximizes the value of Google Fiber have until Monday to vie for a spot …

  • Why corporations should care about startups and entrepreneurs

    As a large corporation participating in the startup space, one of Sprint’s core objectives is to help cultivate an entrepreneurial community in Kansas City. If you are like me, you are still learning exactly what that means. Clearly there are benefits to engaging in this space, but what are those benefits? Why should corporations care…

  • Kansas City’s seventh Startup Weekend starts April 12

    Startup Weekend lands in Kansas City for its seventh round April 12-14. Two-hundred cities around the world …

  • Mozilla, Kauffman and others to host Gigabit City hackathon March 22-24

    For 52 hours from March 22–24, technologists will be asked to dream up uses for Kansas City’s gigabit internet connection. The occasion, the first Hacking the Gigabit City event, is being organized by Mozilla, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, US Ignite and KC Digital Drive. Dinner, drinks and a rapid-fire pitch session kick off the…