Profiles

Techstars Spotlight: Software platform courts easy-to-manage litigation data

By Tommy Felts / August 28, 2017

Amid a digitized world, the legal industry is among the “last frontier” for tech, Thadd Hale said. “There is a lot of opportunity in the legal space,” said Hale, co-founder and CEO of Vector Legal Method. “Litigation as a whole is not very structured or standardized. As you can imagine, lack of standardization can be…

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E-Scholars grad Heidi Van pushes boundaries with ‘nomadic theater’

By Tommy Felts / August 24, 2017

Obstacles along the path to success are often produced in the minds of the creative people themselves, Heidi Van said. “These obstacles are created from self-doubt,” said Van, Fishtank Theatre founder and artistic director. “If you actually looked closer and broke it down into action items, you could probably make a couple of phone calls…

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Techstars Spotlight: Startup hopes to bridge teacher-school gap

By Tommy Felts / August 23, 2017

Matching best-fit teachers to school districts can be challenging, Michael Barnes said. Serving nearly three years as a district talent manager at Austin Achieve public schools, in Austin, Texas, Barnes felt a lot of pressure to make the right decisions for students. “Oftentimes I would stay up until 2 a.m., wishing I had better teachers…

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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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Universe of ‘things’ expanding rapidly, Big Bang says

By Tommy Felts / August 18, 2017

Editor’s Note: To stay in consistent contact with founders, Startland News is launching a weekly follow-up series featuring top area startups and entrepreneurs. Imagining the future of the “Internet of Things” — a universe of connected devices — is as impossible today as accurately fathoming in 1995 how then-fledgling Internet technology would change the world,…

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