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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…

  • 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…

  • Local Ruckus lands Sprint as customer, partner for national push

    Local Ruckus, one of the Kansas City Startup Village’s original residents, has found its first major customer and distribution partner in neighborhood telecom giant Sprint. The site—founded in February 2011, re-launched in August 2012—provides a “hub for local businesses to manage and publish events to their websites and social media networks” and intends to be…

  • Digital Sandbox KC picks next nine companies for prototype funding

    Digital Sandbox KC announced Friday it has selected nine more companies to receive funding that will help sculpt their early-stage ideas for commercialization. Digital Sandbox KC announced Friday it has selected nine more companies to receive funding that will help sculpt their early-stage ideas for commercialization…

  • Grassroots KC Startup Village fuels high hopes amid uncertain outcomes

    Mike Farmer has spent time in Silicon Valley and New York, but he says he hasn’t seen anything quite like what’s springing up along State Line Road in Kansas City. Farmer is the founder and CEO of Kansas City, Kan.-based mobile search startup Leap2, and his company is part of Kansas City Startup Village (KCSV),…

  • New “built” badges promote Silicon Prairie, Kansas City pride

    A pair of Silicon Prairie companies this week introduced easy ways to help their neighbors tout their Midwestern roots. Goodtwin, an Omaha digital agency, today launched Silicon Prairie Built (above), a site that encourages startups in and around Omaha, Des Moines and Kansas City to identify themselves as Silicon Prairie shops. Silicon Prairie Built offers…

  • CNN shines spotlight on Kansas City Startup Village (Video)

    CNN show Anderson Cooper 360º on Monday highlighted the entrepreneurial activity taking place in the first neighborhood to receive Google Fiber in the Kansas City area. “In the bustling heart of Kansas City, the pioneer spirit is burning brightly,” CNN’s Tom Foreman reports as footage from the Nov. 28 edition of 1 Million Cups appears.…

  • After re-starting from scratch, Local Ruckus sporting all-new look

    Nearly a year into working on Local Ruckus, Adam Arredondo decided that in order for the Kansas City startup to move forward, it would have to take a step back. Make that several steps back. “We decided,” Arredondo said, “to start from scratch.” Arredondo founded Local Ruckus in February 2011, and the web-based tool for…

  • Prairie Moves: Mike Hays, Rachel McClung, Allrecipes.com and more

    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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