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Readers’ Choice: Peek at Startland’s most-popular stories

By Tommy Felts / May 4, 2016

The votes are in — and they arrived via page views. And in case you didn’t know: Kansas City produces a ton of startup news. A year ago today, we published our very first digest, and it’s been a fantastically hectic ride ever since. As a startup ourselves, watching the ticker count on story page…

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Dickson: Kansas City’s ‘show me’ mentality is stagnating its startups

By Tommy Felts / February 11, 2016

Editor’s note: Net-zero home-building startup Acre Designs, which found its start in Kansas City, recently entered the world’s best business accelerator program: Y Combinator. After facing a tepid investor market in Kansas City, the company will be staying in the San Francisco area after the program’s conclusion. Kansas City fosters an enviable work ethic, steady…

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This Kansas City startup is in the world’s best accelerator: Y Combinator

By Tommy Felts / February 10, 2016

Acre Designs, a net-zero, home-building startup that found its start in Kansas City, is now honing its model in arguably the world’s top business accelerator. San Francisco-based Y Combinator in January welcomed Acre into its 2016 accelerator program. Y Combinator — an early investor in such companies as Airbnb, Dropbox, Reddit, Disqus and others —…

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Acre Designs to build KC’s first ‘net-zero’ home

By Tommy Felts / July 9, 2015

A local design and architecture firm is building the Kansas City metro’s first net-zero home that will serve as a test lab for innovators aiming to create new smart home technologies. Acre Designs is now wrapping up design plans of its “Axiom House,” a 1,650 square-foot, solar-powered home that eventually will serve as a test…

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KC companies tap K-State LAB program

By Tommy Felts / June 12, 2015

Three Kansas City area startups are honing their approaches with an array of resources at a business development program at Kansas State University. Acre Designs (Kansas City, Kan.) and AEGLE Palette (Shawnee) and Alvoru Clothing (Shawnee) were selected to participate in KSU’s Launch a Business program, which is designed to cultivate promising ventures in Kansas…

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