Corporate

Former Walmart exec, VC founder who was second attorney for Google joining Kauffman trustees

By Tommy Felts / April 18, 2018

Editor’s note: Startland News, in its capacity as a nonprofit digital magazine, is financially supported by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. [divide] Two high-powered women are expected to bring diverse business, investment and education backgrounds to the table of one of Kansas City’s leading entrepreneurship engines. Susan Chambers, a five-time “50 Most Powerful Women in…

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I-70 wage gap? Kansas City lags St. Louis on tech pay, snapshot analysis says

By Tommy Felts / April 10, 2018

St. Louis might be the gateway to higher tech pay — but not by much, according to a new nationwide snapshot analysis of tech industry jobs. The Kansas City metro logged an average tech wage of $90,940 in 2017, falling slightly behind the St. Louis metro at $96,370, based on data released in the Cyberstates…

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We Create KC report: Startup investment soared to $540M in 2017

By Tommy Felts / April 6, 2018

A startling statistic for those who think capital merely flies over the Midwest: Kansas City saw a 69 percent increase in startup investment from 2016 to 2017, according to KCSourceLink’s We Create KC report. All told, early-stage businesses classified by KCSourceLink as startups — typically defined as those with 20 or fewer employees — nabbed…

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IXKC: Want top talent in Kansas City? Stop talking about yesterday (Photos)

By Tommy Felts / March 29, 2018

Kansas City already has what it takes to recruit and keep top talent, Neal Sharma told Wednesday’s Innovation Exchange crowd. What the metro seems to lack is the confidence to boast about itself, he added. Sharma, CEO and co-founder of DEG, a full-service digital agency in Overland Park that has grown to about 300 employees,…

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Catapult International co-founder launches Swivel Software from Lenexa HQ

By Tommy Felts / February 15, 2018

Online shoppers can track orders the moment they’re placed, shipped and delivered. That kind of visibility along the supply chain — from a product’s beginnings in a factory to its final destination on the shelf — is vital for freight forwarders and importers to be efficient in the international shipping industry, Matt Motsick said. For…

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