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Little Hoots

Pint-sized perspective: KC’s Little Hoots takes nostalgia-capturing tech to MIT

By Tommy Felts / October 15, 2018

From the cute and comedic to the whimsical and wise, every parent can pinpoint a Little Hoots moment that relates to their personal adventure in child-rearing, said Lacey Ellis, founder and CEO of the Kansas City-birthed mobile app that recently turned heads at MIT. “If a picture is worth a thousand words, a hoot is…

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Startland’s 2017 Made in Kansas City Gift Guide: Tech list

By Tommy Felts / December 1, 2017

Startland News presents its annual Made in Kansas City Gift Guide. Check out selections from the Kansas City tech category below. Have more ideas? Leave them for readers in the comments below.  Little Hoots keepsake quotes – $16 and up Creatively capture your kiddo’s cute quotes with the Little Hoots app. The app allows one to…

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How local founders manage startup disappointment

By Tommy Felts / June 23, 2016

Editor’s note: The opinions expressed in this commentary are the author’s alone.   Fail fast. Fail forward. Startup failure may be educational, but it’s a lesson delivered by a very expensive teacher who exacts a steep emotional and economic price. The space between the Big Success and the Big Failure is where entrepreneurs live and…

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‘Happy we don’t have to leave’ Little Hoots’ $450K raise will keep KC home

By Tommy Felts / December 15, 2015

Once on the verge of departing its hometown, Kansas City-based Little Hoots recently raised funds to boost development of its app, allowing the startup to remain in the City of Fountains. Led by CEO Lacey Ellis, Little Hoots’ memory-keeping app struggled to find traction with Kansas City area investors, which nearly forced the company to…

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Startup Little Hoots working with Today Show, Huffington Post

By Tommy Felts / June 4, 2015

Kansas City-based Little Hoots has scored two high-profile partnerships that are scoring its memory-saving app thousands of additional downloads. The tech firm is working with the Today Show and the Huffington Post to provide snippets from its memory-keeping platform that captures youngsters’ memorable quotations to share with friends and family. “Whenever they publish one of these Little Hoots…

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