Tag: Herb Sih

Entrepreneurs’ innovative thinking pays off for smart cities, Think Big co-founder says

By Tommy Felts / March 30, 2018

There’s a difference between innovation and invention, said Herb Sih, managing partner and co-founder of Think Big Partners. “Invention is a good idea in search of a home — or, as someone said this morning, a solution in search of a problem,” Sih said. “Reverse that: Innovation. It’s a problem in search of a solution.”…

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Plexpod acquires Think Big Coworking, expanding KC footprint

By Tommy Felts / December 14, 2017

Plexpod isn’t playing. Amid Kansas City’s competitive coworking market, Plexpod is doubling down with the acquisition of Think Big Coworking’s 1712 Main Street location, Plexpod founder Gerald Smith said. The acquisition adds more than 30,000 square feet of space to Plexpod’s already large footprint in the area and forges a new partnership between the two…

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Smart city leader: Can technology predict deadly shooters before it’s too late?

By Tommy Felts / October 4, 2017

A smart city is a safe city, Herb Sih said. And technology can help. “If you don’t have safety, you don’t have anything,” said Sih, managing partner at Think Big Partners, one of the key collaborators in Kansas City’s $15.7 million public-private Smart City initiative. Having grown up in St. Louis, Sih said he has…

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Smart City Living Lab opens, targets growing pains of a swelling city

By Tommy Felts / August 2, 2017

The much-anticipated “Kansas City Living Lab” — a platform for application development that taps the Kansas City Smart City initiative — is now welcoming new tech partners. Using smart city infrastructure, the Living Lab allows innovators to test and commercialize technologies that can solve problems in Kansas City. The project is led by Think Big…

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Smart City update: Living Lab set to launch, TV show may highlight KC innovation

By Tommy Felts / July 11, 2017

Bob Bennett, chief innovation officer at the City of Kansas City, Mo., said Kansas City has championed itself as a leader in big data and smart city tech for years now. But now the city is reaching an inflection point to leverage the data at a significant scale, he said. “The bottom line is that…

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