Mycroft CEO: Ditch Amazon bait for better investment — KC startups

By Tommy Felts | October 16, 2017

Editor’s note: Kansas City-based Mycroft CEO Joshua Montgomery wrote this piece in response to the area effort to attract Amazon’s prospective HQ2. The opinions expressed in this commentary are the author’s alone. [divide] My first face-to-face meeting with an Amazon employee took place on his day off. He was at the Sprint Accelerator on the Missouri…

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Mayor’s Office delivers #KC5stars campaign to woo Amazon HQ2

By Tommy Felts | October 11, 2017

The request for proposal can wait. Kansas City Mayor Sly James is delivering Amazon 1,000 reasons to build its second headquarters in the City of Fountains via a host of product reviews on the online retailer’s site. A label maker, flashlight and fishing net were among the items James reviewed to promote various aspects of…

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