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Settle up with Uncle Sam early (and other tax tips for startups)

By Tommy Felts / January 6, 2016

Whether it’s your first year of startup life or your twentieth, it’s a great feeling to wrap up the year on December 31 and see just how far you’ve come.  January starts off full of promise, and then you remember: You still need to settle up with Uncle Sam. To help put the final ribbon…

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Regional Roundup: VC valuations, bootstrapping

By Tommy Felts / December 3, 2015

Welcome to our new series called Regional Roundup. Every couple weeks we’ll pull together compelling articles, podcasts, videos and more related to startups and innovation in the region. Let us know what you think, and send us any ideas or content that you’d like to share. Sit back and read (or listen or watch) some…

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Gooding: Create your own market — don’t compete in someone else’s

By Tommy Felts / October 20, 2015

“It’s a $100 million dollar industry, all I have to do is capture 1 percent of that market and I’ll make a million dollars.” After working with hundreds of startups, I have heard this statement countless times. This way of thinking is held by many business owners regardless of their industry, background or target market.…

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Kansas City receives new tech-focused jobs board

By Tommy Felts / September 16, 2015

Businesses both big and small looking to fill technology positions in their companies have a new outlet to find talent: KCnext’s new job board. In conjunction with Kansas City’s inaugural Techweek, the KCnext team announced Chute Wednesday to help area businesses in their recruiting efforts — whether they’re members of the tech council or not. Millennials have shed light on…

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AltCap launches small business competition in KC

By Tommy Felts / September 9, 2015

After a recent rebrand, Kansas City-based AltCap is back with a new small business competition aimed at local entrepreneurs. AltCap program manager Christine Kahm said their first program is seeking to aid those businesses who aren’t looking for venture capital funds or angel investors, but who do need help getting their business idea off of…

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