Tag: Dave Palmstein

iwerx Gladstone

iWerx Gladstone to expand Northland coworking, incubator options in former racquetball club

By Tommy Felts / July 3, 2018

Two years after launching its sprawling flagship site in North Kansas City, a premiere coworking community is expected to debut iWerx Gladstone in late fall. The two-story, 32,000-square-foot space — originally built as a racquetball club and renovated into a traditional office building in the mid 1980s — will be home to about 80 offices,…

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KC Rising red flag: Educated talent leaving KC, metro tech jobs unfilled

By Tommy Felts / March 7, 2018

More college-educated workers are leaving Kansas City than being drawn to the region, according to a new KC Rising report. That means local companies are forced to look outward for qualified talent, said Ryan Weber. “Most of those tech firms are hiring; it’s just for skill sets that few people have,” said Weber, president of…

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5 reasons your startup isn’t attracting investors

By Tommy Felts / February 4, 2016

Last week, Techstars managing director John Fein told us that one of the main complaints he hears from Kansas City investors is that there aren’t enough fundable startups. Investors may be right, but it’s not necessarily a lack of good ideas. Today, Kansas City investors are looking for more than the next big idea: they’re…

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