Bob Specht: How Kansas City actually becomes a startup city

By Tommy Felts | December 20, 2016

Editor’s note: This post was originally published on medium.com. Opinions expressed in the commentary are the author’s alone.  With growth in our Kansas City startup community, questions continuously come of “what next?” What do we need to keep growing? “Funding” is usually what you’ll hear yelled, but I’m not so convinced. I believe improving in…

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Mayor Sly James helps startup 1 Minute Candidate build, win competition

By Tommy Felts | June 1, 2015

Kansas City Mayor Sly James stepped up this Sunday to help a team of entrepreneurs win a competition in which they built a business in 54 hours. James, a well-known cheerleader of Kansas City’s startup community, helped political-tech startup 1 Minute Candidate launch its platform at Startup Weekend Kansas City, a event in which entrepreneurial-hopefuls…

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