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Melissa Roberts, the Enterprise Center in Johnson County, and Bek Abdullayev, Super Dispatch

Immigrant entrepreneurs need path to US now, GOP senator behind Startup Act says

By Tommy Felts / March 21, 2018

Editor’s note: The following story on Jerry Moran’s Startup Act is part of a three-part series on the potential for immigrant or foreign-born entrepreneurs to help reshape Kansas City’s startup ecosystem. Read a warning from a leading Kansas City tech CEO about coming challenges within the local talent pipeline here. Check out a feature on…

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Neelima Parasker, SnapIT Solutions, talent pipeline

CEO warning: Talent pipeline collapsing with fewer immigrants; tech training needed at home

By Tommy Felts / March 21, 2018

Editor’s note: The following story on challenges within KC’s talent pipeline is part of a three-part series on the potential for immigrant or foreign-born entrepreneurs to help reshape Kansas City’s startup ecosystem. Read more about how a Kansas senator’s Startup Act legislation could reduce barriers here. Check out a feature on an immigrant entrepreneur who…

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Leonard Graham and Hagos Andebrhan, co-owners of Taliaferro & Browne

Engineering KC: Global talent builds success for Taliaferro & Browne

By Tommy Felts / March 21, 2018

Editor’s note: The following feature on Taliaferro & Browne is part of a three-part series on the potential for immigrant or foreign-born entrepreneurs to help reshape Kansas City’s startup ecosystem. Read more about how a Kansas senator’s Startup Act legislation could reduce barriers here. Check out a warning from a leading Kansas City tech CEO…

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Blade & Timber

Coming to Leawood: Blade & Timber hopes to stick another win with second axe throwing space

By Tommy Felts / March 20, 2018

Kansas City comes first, said Matt Baysinger. And that means providing cutting-edge experiences like Blade & Timber to folks across the metro. “As we were looking at expansion — and obviously we’re looking at cities outside of the metro and outside of Kansas — it made so much sense for us to say, ‘This is…

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App snaps pics of items to ease moving process, MovinHouz founders say

By Tommy Felts / March 20, 2018

What started as a couple of bad moving experiences developed into a mobile app to simplify the relocation process, said MovinHouz co-founders. Dominic Klobe and Chris Perrin, co-founders of Olathe-based MovinHouz, a tech startup incubated at Digital Sandbox KC, are building an app that connects moving companies to customers in need of their services, Klobe…

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Student investors hope to make inroads with KC founders through pitch day

By Tommy Felts / March 19, 2018

A group of student investors in the Kansas City University Venture Program are working to jump start deal flow and create relationships with Kansas City entrepreneurs. Launched in 2017, the student-led fund is hosting a pitch event to start a dialogue with area startups in hopes of finding their newest investment deals, said Nate Crosser, a…

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NBA hires Alight Analytics to collect, analyze data from fans’ social engagement

By Tommy Felts / March 19, 2018

The volume of data created within a professional sports team’s fan base is enormous, said Matt Hertig, chief executive officer of Alight Analytics. “Being able to see all of that data together across all of the popular social channels — from Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat — in one place and really understand the correlation…

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Photos: LaunchCode christens KC’s newest techies with graduation celebration

By Tommy Felts / March 16, 2018

An Afghan immigrant. A mother of six. An English grad turned techie. A man now able to provide for his family. They’re all among the graduates and inspirational stories highlighted during LaunchCode’s graduation ceremony that recognized the newest members of Kansas City’s tech community. LaunchCode on Wednesday graduated 60 students from its rigorous LC101 coding…

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Christian entrepreneur hopes to convert believers to veganism

By Tommy Felts / March 16, 2018

Kris Taylor’s inspiration for a vegan, Christian lifestyle traces back to the first book of the Bible, she said. Modern people eat meat because of original sin and the fall of man, as described in Genesis, Taylor said. “But if you go back to the creation story in Genesis, every seed-bearing plant was given to…

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Caffeine tours give ‘pub crawl’ experience for lovers of coffee, tea and chocolate

By Tommy Felts / March 16, 2018

Escaping corporate life in New York, Jason Burton moved to Kansas City in 2004 and began pouring his work into a new passion. As a marketer for Kansas City’s Roasterie, Burton soon recognized coffee and tea lacked the social component of events and festivals that are more associated with specialty beverages like beer and wine.…

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