Opinion

Swap ping pong for plutonium: 6 tips for startup onboarding (as told through iconic movie quotes) 

By Tommy Felts / March 3, 2021

Editor’s note: The opinions expressed in this commentary are the author’s alone. Stephanie Campbell is an operations and communications leader at LEANLAB Education in Kansas City. [divide] Just like it’s cheaper to retain an existing customer than it is to acquire a new one, it’s more cost-effective and time-efficient to retain an employee than hire…

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Want COVID recovery to work? Send 5 percent of government contracts to new businesses

By Tommy Felts / February 23, 2021

Editor’s note: The opinions expressed in this commentary are the author’s alone. Victor Hwang is the founder and CEO of the Right to Start movement. Click here to learn more about Right to Start, a campaign to drive economic recovery and advance economic justice. This commentary originally appeared on Inc. and is republished with permission…

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Entrepreneurs’ intellectual property rights: How to protect trade secrets shouldn’t be a mystery

By Tommy Felts / February 23, 2021

Editor’s note: The opinions expressed in this commentary — the third in a four-part series — are the author’s alone. Chris Brown is the founder of Venture Legal where he represents startups, freelancers, and small businesses. This column is intended to be general in detail and does not constitute legal advice. [divide] With both federal…

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Behind the scenes of a scaling business: 5 pillars of cloud transformation for the conscious builder

By Tommy Felts / December 23, 2020

Editor’s note: This commentary — the fourth in a four-part series — is sponsored and produced by LightEdge, a leading provider of enterprise-grade data center solutions — rooted in colocation and private cloud, and wrapped in security and compliance. The company delivers always-on internet with highly interconnected data centers, unmatched Compliance as a Service, and…

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Why Kansas City is America’s next great tech city (5 takeaways from a top founder)

By Tommy Felts / December 21, 2020

Editor’s note: The opinions expressed in this commentary are the author’s alone. John Boucard is founder and CEO of Tesseract Ventures, an innovator in next-generation robots, smart spaces, 21st century software and radically connected platforms — and one of Startland News’ Kansas City Startups to Watch in 2020. Click here to learn more about Tesseract Ventures. [divide]…

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