Tag: Bek Abdullayev

Ben Hubbard and Bek Abdullayev, Super Dispatch COO

Super Dispatch hires experienced startup driver as COO to navigate its global growth map for 2019 and beyond

By Tommy Felts / April 30, 2019

From the fifth employee at Webmail.us to No. 50 for KC-based Super Dispatch, a startup leader with a long track record of building innovative operations has joined the executive team alongside founder and CEO Bek Abdullayev. “Super Dispatch is taking off,” said Ben Hubbard, the company’s new chief operating officer. “They have things figured out…

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2018 Startups to Watch

Year-end roundup: Checking in with Startland’s 2018 Startups to Watch

By Tommy Felts / December 21, 2018

It was a year of refinement, said Chris Goode, as well as a time to rejoice amid highs and lows at Ruby Jean’s Juicery. Startland checked in with the founder, along with his fellow 2018 Startups to Watch companies, to see if the past 12 months unfolded as predicted. While working to expand Ruby Jean’s…

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Melissa Roberts, the Enterprise Center in Johnson County, and Bek Abdullayev, Super Dispatch

Immigrant entrepreneurs need path to US now, GOP senator behind Startup Act says

By Tommy Felts / March 21, 2018

Editor’s note: The following story on Jerry Moran’s Startup Act is part of a three-part series on the potential for immigrant or foreign-born entrepreneurs to help reshape Kansas City’s startup ecosystem. Read a warning from a leading Kansas City tech CEO about coming challenges within the local talent pipeline here. Check out a feature on…

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Sharice Davids, Starty Pants Podcast

Starty Pants podcast host Sharice Davids making bid to unseat Rep. Kevin Yoder

By Tommy Felts / February 22, 2018

Americans have an intergenerational responsibility to leave society and the country better than they found it, Sharice Davids said. The startup founders she interviews for her Starty Pants podcast understand that duty, she said. “When I think about entrepreneurship, I think of the risk taking and forward thinking of people who are trying to address…

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Kansas City startups to watch in 2018

By Tommy Felts / January 16, 2018

Within Kansas City’s startup community, one question remains as confounding as it is combustible. “What is a startup?” Purists say it’s a disruptive tech firm. Egalitarians maintain the term applies to any early-stage business. Others ask another question: Who cares? The answers — debated in spirited fashion in national media, on Kansas City discussion boards and…

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