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KCSourceLink founder reflects on 10 years aiding, connecting startups
Maria Meyers has been connecting Kansas City’s startup founders and small business owners for 10 years in her work for KCSourceLink, which she founded in 2003. In that position, and as director at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, she’s helped pull together partners and resources to give businesses what they need to be successful. Recently,…
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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,…
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Digital Sandbox reveals director and board of advisors, opens applications
A group led by the University of Missouri-Kansas City Innovation Center unveiled its plans today for Digital Sandbox KC, a proof-of-concept and mentoring center made possible by a $1 million federal grant last year. During a press event at Union Station, the Digital Sandbox’s future home, officials introduced the center’s director and board of advisors…
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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…