Tag: Callie England

Want on stage at GEWKC? Organizers need your ideas for 2024 entrepreneur event series

By Tommy Felts / June 4, 2024

Kansas City’s business and entrepreneur community is invited to submit sessions for this fall’s Global Entrepreneurship Week-Kansas City, an interactive, community-driven educational experience organized by KCSourceLink. “Kansas City is gearing up for an even better Global Entrepreneurship Week in 2024,” said Callie England, director of GEWKC and marketing director at KCSourceLink, which has organized GEWKC…

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Her new role is reenvisioning one of KC’s most iconic events for entrepreneurs; how Callie England is shaking up GEW

By Tommy Felts / September 15, 2023

Callie England misses the life of an entrepreneur, she shared, but her new role with the UMKC Innovation Center — and GEWKC — allows her to stay in the game without being on the field. As of January, the veteran Kansas City startup founder is responsible for managing the branding and marketing initiatives of the…

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Callie England’s latest venture has no name or website; When odds are you’ll die next week, you learn to prioritize, she says

By Tommy Felts / March 15, 2022

Sometimes hypothetical questions become all too real, said Callie England, a serial entrepreneur who frequently posed a speculative query to herself and clients: “If you were going to die next week, what decisions would you make?”  It was a question she was forced to answer honestly in July 2021, when the veteran Kansas City startup…

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Rooted in growth: WallyGro launches à la carte plants after its ‘year of new products’

By Tommy Felts / March 16, 2021

Fulfilling a long-awaited request from customers, WallyGro — a Kansas City company known for its innovative hanging planters — announced Friday it launched its first line of à la carte plants, said Callie England. “This past year the demand was: Could you supply us with more? Customers already trusted [WallyGro] because of our planters, so…

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Callie England at Startland's April Innovation Exchange, a live Startup Hustle podcast on Startup Burnout, presented by Full Scale

Growing into WallyGro: I knew I couldn’t let leaving Rawxies ruin me, says Callie England

By Tommy Felts / June 14, 2019

Entrepreneurship is a drug and Callie England couldn’t neglect the euphoric high she felt with each hit. “I wasn’t even thinking and that first year was so painful … yet it was so, just like, glorious … You don’t really remember anything until after the fact, but you’re like, man, that was great,”  England, founder…

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