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Lindsey Roy, TEDxKC

5 TEDxKC perspectives on navigating life’s next disruptions

By Tommy Felts / August 23, 2017

What’s the greatest threat to humanity? Self obsession? Artificial intelligence? Resentment? Depends on your perspective. An eclectic group of TEDxKC presenters gathered Friday at the Kauffman Center of Performing Arts to share their expertise on how art, philosophy, technology, individual experiences and even interpersonal relationships shape the perspectives through which people see the reality around…

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Shantanu Bala, TEDxKC

TEDxKC speaker Shantanu Bala: Tech moves communication beyond words

By Tommy Felts / August 23, 2017

Editor’s note: Startland News is exploring a few of the most impactful quotes from speakers at Friday’s TEDxKC event at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. “The blind cannot only lead the blind, but lead any of us who can see to experiences that we’ve never seen before.” — Shantanu Bala Think about the…

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Robert Hernandez, TEDxKC

TEDxKC speaker Robert Hernandez: Future of fake is already upon us

By Tommy Felts / August 23, 2017

Editor’s note: Startland News is exploring a few of the most impactful quotes from speakers at Friday’s TEDxKC event at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. “We can be persuaded by what we see, even though we know it’s fake.” — Robert Hernandez Prepare for disruption like you’ve never seen before, Robert Hernandez warned media…

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Cathi Hanauer, TEDxKC

TEDxKC speaker Cathi Hanauer: Hope starts with working marriage reality

By Tommy Felts / August 23, 2017

Editor’s note: Startland News is exploring a few of the most impactful quotes from speakers at Friday’s TEDxKC event at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. “Break the rules from your parents’ generation. Your father kept an immaculate garage. Your mother made a home-cooked meal every night. But in your family, with two full-time…

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Louis Rosenberg, TEDxKC

TEDxKC speaker Louis Rosenberg: Hive mind key to battling alien threat

By Tommy Felts / August 23, 2017

Editor’s note: Startland News is exploring a few of the most impactful quotes from speakers at Friday’s TEDxKC event at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. “Here we are: the most intelligent species on the Earth. Congratulations. Unfortunately, things are about to change.” — Louis Rosenberg An alien intelligence is headed toward humanity at…

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Report: KC startups driving quality job creation across metro

By Tommy Felts / August 23, 2017

Young Kansas City businesses are substantial job creators for the area, according to a recent report from entrepreneurial resource hub KCSourceLink. In its recent “We Create Jobs” report, KCSourceLink found that new firms that employed fewer than 20 workers created 16,325 new jobs in 2016. And for the past five years, startups created an average…

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CAPS Network

CAPS put grads on top, alumni say

By Tommy Felts / August 23, 2017

Education innovation is a growing industry in Kansas City. Leaders say it has grown tremendously within the past two years and will eventually impact the region’s talent pipeline. One of the metro’s trailblazing programs is Blue Valley Center for Advanced Professional Studies, CAPS. The program began in the Blue Valley School District in 2009 as…

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KCMO to celebrate innovation partners at demo day

By Tommy Felts / August 22, 2017

Since the publish date on Aug. 22, the location of the Innovation Partnership Program demo day has been changed. It will now be held at WeWork at Corrigan Station at 5:00 p.m.  Five Kansas City startups are expected to be toasted next month with a demo day at a popular brewery. The Sept. 11 celebration…

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Yes, another total solar eclipse photo gallery

By Tommy Felts / August 22, 2017

Like tens of thousands of people near the “path of totality,” the Kansas City Startup Foundation team trekked northward Monday to bask in the rarity of a total solar eclipse. As you can see from the photos, it was a tad cloudy at Smithville Lake — about 40 miles southeast of the crowds in St.…

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Tommy Felts

Tommy Felts: How ruffled business feathers led me to Startland

By Tommy Felts / August 22, 2017

My first attempt at entrepreneurship quickly ran afowl of reality. (Now before you assume the new guy at Startland doesn’t know how to spell “afoul,” please bear with me. I’ve earned my on-the-job Dad Joke credentials through hundreds of clever — some would say eye-rolling — puns that formed the character of my best headline…

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