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Bluepoint2 Growing Organically
I sat down with Liderman Duin who is the founder of Bluepoint2, a KC software startup, to discuss his experiences as a software founder, healthcare consultant, and current Pipeline fellow. We had met previously at a Pipeline recruiting event held at the Omaha Press Club earlier this summer. His story like many other founder stories…
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Join Pipeline, Change Your Entrepreneurial Trajectory
Today, August 28th, the Pipeline Entrepreneurial Fellowship is opening its application for 2020 fellows. Pipeline is the premier networking, mentoring, and entrepreneurial encouragement program in the Midwest. It has effectively helped build a network throughout Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska. In so doing, Pipeline has helped, inspired, networked, and shaped individual entrepreneurs that have collectively created…
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Pipeline: The Midwest’s secret weapon
In 2006, KTEC (Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation) created the Pipeline program and recruited Joni Cobb to organize and run the nascent company. The goal of the organization was to build a sustainable, long-term entrepreneurial training and mentoring network. Entering its 13th year, Pipeline’s success is measurable. The entrepreneurs that have graduated from Pipeline have created…
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Applications for Pipeline Entrepreneurs 2019 Fellowship class open Saturday
Pipeline will open applications for the 2019 Entrepreneurial Fellowship on September 1, 2018. Entrepreneurs interested in the program have until October 22 to submit their application. Pipeline is a top organization of the Midwest’s most successful, high-performance entrepreneurs. The organization boasts over 120 entrepreneurs who employ over 2,300 people in Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska and…
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KC-based Xenometrics acquired by international CRO
How does a scientist with no business background go from conceptualizing a business to being acquired by an international contract research organization (CRO) with locations in seven countries? “If people are starting a business or in a business, there’s nothing better than Pipeline and they need to get involved,” said Dr. Alfred Botchway, Ph.D., founder…
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Pipeline receives four-year Challenge Grant from Kauffman Foundation
Pipeline Entrepreneurial Fellowship announced this morning that it has received a challenge grant of up to $2.087 million over four years from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to support and enhance programming. Pipeline is a fellowship organization supporting the region’s fastest growing entrepreneurs. Each year up to 13 entrepreneurs are selected for the Fellowship and,…
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Pipeline President and CEO Joni Cobb recaps Seattle Module for SPN
Pipeline Entrepreneurs, the Midwest’s most successful organization of high-growth entrepreneurs, recently completed their Seattle module. SPN spoke to Pipeline President and CEO Joni Cobb to get a recap and to find out more about who and how the Pipeline fellows expanded their network outside of the Silicon Prairie. A year of Pipeline consists of four…
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Greetabl raises $1.5M, looks to accelerate growth
St. Louis-based Greetabl, an e-commerce gifts and greetings startup led by Joe Fischer and Zoë Scharf, announced the close of the company’s Series Seed II fundraising this week at $1.5M. The round was lead by PinPoint Holdings, with additional investments from Lindbergh Technology Fund, Missouri Technology Corporation, and private angel investors, including Billiken Angel Network…
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Pipeline cohorts focus on relieving customer pain
The latest cohort of Pipeline startups recently completed the first of four modules in the program. SPN caught up with three Kansas City participants to see how it went. Austin Barone is Co-Founder of Just Play Sports Solutions, a software system to help coaches from high schools through the WNBA improve instruction, practice preparation and…
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Infogressive improves cybersecurity with The Innovators
Enter your email below to watch the interview Infogressive founder Justin Kallhoff sat down with Brian Lee from SPN to talk about his business and experience at the Pipeline Entrepreneur Innovators Awards . Kallhoff asked audience members to look to their left and right. One of those people has Malware on their computers, he informed…