Opinion

Gooding: Your customers don’t care about you

By Tommy Felts / April 4, 2017

Editor’s note: The opinions expressed in this commentary are the author’s alone. Check out more from Grant Gooding here.  It’s true. The moment you start talking about yourself is the moment you start losing.   There is no doubt that as human beings we have a natural affinity to talk about ourselves; self-promotion is hard-wired…

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Williams to critical Bloomberg piece: KC shouldn’t try to be Silicon Valley

By Tommy Felts / March 17, 2017

Editor’s note: The following piece is in response to a Bloomberg article critical of the Kansas City Startup Village and Kansas City’s ability to use Google Fiber to become the “next Silicon Valley.” Opinions expressed in this commentary are the author’s alone.  In 2012, Kansas City experienced what at the time must have felt like winning…

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Arredondo: Our education system is creating an army of unemployable people

By Tommy Felts / March 14, 2017

Editor’s note: The opinions expressed in the commentary are the author’s alone.  I have good and bad news. The good news? There are more than 5,700,000 jobs available in the United States as you read this — the most jobs available at any time in the history of our country. The bad news? As of 2012,…

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Former U.S. Labor official Chris Lu: KC can teach Trump how to create jobs

By Tommy Felts / March 9, 2017

Editor’s note: Chris Lu served as the U.S. Deputy Secretary of Labor during the Obama Administration, and he is now a Senior Fellow at the University of Virginia Miller Center. The opinions in this commentary are the author’s alone. For all of Donald Trump’s bluster about his job creation abilities, this week will provide one of…

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Melissa Roberts: How an Olathe hate crime affects your tech business

By Tommy Felts / February 28, 2017

Editor’s note: The opinions in this commentary are the author’s alone. In the startup world, outside the Facebook echo chamber, it can be hard to see how political trends impact your business. I understand why. When you’re struggling to weed through the constant churn of working the problem, identifying a new problem and working that…

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