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Top 10 Kansas City startups to watch in 2017

By Tommy Felts / January 9, 2017

Kansas City witnessed one of its biggest startup successes in 2016 with EyeVerify’s massive exit. Stories like this bring Kansas City’s potential to the foreground. It validates that not only building a wildly lucrative business is possible but also that the area community can help make it possible. While undoubtedly a triumph, EyeVerify is but…

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With a halt on new overtime rules, what’s next for startups?

By Tommy Felts / November 29, 2016

Disruption is good, right? Well, as the Game of Thrones memes say: “Brace yourselves.” The Department of Labor overtime rules that were originally scheduled to go into effect on Dec. 1 have now been indefinitely postponed due to an injunction issued on Nov.22 by U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant. These rules were set to nearly…

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Networking guru Alana Muller’s tips on having a successful GEW

By Tommy Felts / November 11, 2016

Opinions expressed in this commentary are the author’s alone.    With Global Entrepreneurship Week just around the corner, seems like a great time to dust off a few key networking tips for entrepreneurs. But, first, let’s begin by answering the question, why should entrepreneurs care about networking? Some of you are probably thinking, “I don’t…

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Grant Gooding delivers 8 key ingredients to a killer pitch

By Tommy Felts / November 8, 2016

Editor’s note: The opinions expressed in this commentary are the author’s alone. Check out more from Grant Gooding here. Recently I worked with some startups for LaunchKC and several folks asked me if I had my pitch “system” written down. I hadn’t, so I thought it was time I did. To be fair, you will…

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In KC visit, former Infusionsoft CMO delivers lessons on focus

By Tommy Felts / October 17, 2016

An entrepreneur’s ability to focus is her single largest bellwether of success. At least according to Greg Head, the former CMO of Infusionsoft. Head — a 30-year veteran of the software industry — now spends his days consulting ambitious executives in growing companies on that five letter word: focus. Head on Thursday visited Kansas City…

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