Tag: Kansas City Startup Village

Arredondo: Serendipity, passion collide to form the KC Startup Foundation

By Tommy Felts / August 9, 2017

I’m not going to lie. It’s been a heckuva ride. Who could have imagined the Kansas City Startup Village’s serendipitous start in Fall 2012 would turn into all this? Not me. I vividly remember the nights Matthew Marcus and I were awake at 2 a.m., trying to keep up with the flood of emails from…

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Williams to critical Bloomberg piece: KC shouldn’t try to be Silicon Valley

By Tommy Felts / March 17, 2017

Editor’s note: The following piece is in response to a Bloomberg article critical of the Kansas City Startup Village and Kansas City’s ability to use Google Fiber to become the “next Silicon Valley.” Opinions expressed in this commentary are the author’s alone.  In 2012, Kansas City experienced what at the time must have felt like winning…

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