Tag: Kansas City Startup Weekend

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Calendar update: Startup Weekend KC event postponed until fall, organizer says

By Tommy Felts / April 20, 2019

Entrepreneurs hungering for intensive, organic product development will have to wait a few more months for their fix. Techstars Startup Weekend KC — originally slated for April 26-28 at the SafetyCulture North American Headquarters in the Crossroads — has been postponed until September, event organizer Rebecca Dove said. The annual “three-day long sprint to launch…

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Cooking class curator wins Google-backed Startup Weekend competition

By Tommy Felts / March 27, 2018

Nine teams made it through Startup Weekend, but only one team earned the dough: PopChef, which cooked up a platform to sign up for interactive kitchen classes with local chefs. PopChef co-founders Zack Kern and Ruby Montoya were ecstatic to win the competition, Kern said. In addition to receiving an hour of consulting with Lesa…

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Google, Techstars partner to lower barriers for March 23-25 Startup Weekend

By Tommy Felts / March 5, 2018

A new partnership with Google will allow Techstars to present this month’s Startup Weekend free of charge to Kansas City participants, said John Coler. “It opens up the opportunity to reduce the barrier for entry for those who either would not usually use their discretionary income or (do not) have the ability to pay for…

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Kansas City Startup Weekend crowns new champion LoopLogiq

By Tommy Felts / November 16, 2015

A whirlwind of a weekend produced a startup champion that hopes to revamp the world of customer relationship management. Kansas City Startup Weekend, a competition in which teams frantically develop and refine a business idea in 54 hours, crowned LoopLogiq as its champion Sunday. The company’s customer relationship management system (CRM) aims to help companies…

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