Tag: Sally Williams

Fall 2019 Elevation Lab Tech Venture cohort with Sally Williams; front row, Jerren Thornhill, Kwinton Scarbrough, Sally Williams, Aaron Monson, Jeremy Williams, and Juaquan Herron; back row, Rodney McDuffie, Zach Davis, James Bailey, David Biga, Jordan Williams, Hassan Ali, and former SBDC counselor Ryan Comeau

Microwave meals to dating apps: How Sally Williams harnesses the power of new products for founders

By Tommy Felts / September 20, 2021

After 40 years in the game, a nearly lifelong career might leave little room for surprises. Yet for Sally Williams, every rise of the sun brings new opportunities, revolving largely around Kansas City’s potential to push the bounds of innovation, she said.  “I have clients who have products in the International Space Station and I…

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Erin Smith, FacePrint

Lenexa teen IDs winning medical solution with Parkinson’s detection tech FacePrint

By Tommy Felts / August 17, 2018

Stanford University will have to wait. Eighteen-year-old Erin Smith is taking her medical technology venture, FacePrint, on the road. The Johnson County teen has been selected to join two prestigious fellowships to further develop FacePrint, which is a diagnostic and monitoring Tool for Parkinson’s Disease. She’s been tapped for $25,000 from the Davidson Institute for…

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KCSourceLink All-Star Voting Winners

All-Star voting winners: E-Day at the K celebrates KCSourceLink, its network (Photos)

By Tommy Felts / June 19, 2018

KCSourceLink’s Entrepreneur Day at the K heralded the work of the support organization’s sprawling network of partners. But the tailgate party at Kauffman Stadium didn’t let founder Maria Meyers go unnoticed. Reading from a proclamation announcement marking Monday as “KCSourceLink Entrepreneur Day” in Kansas City, Missouri, Nathan Kurtz, entrepreneur advocate at the Ewing Marion Kauffman…

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AY Young, Battery Tour

AY Young pivots Battery Tour to music festival benefitting those without power

By Tommy Felts / May 17, 2018

With an ear-to-ear grin and his infectious laugh, AY Young admits he’s perhaps an unlikely rapper. Back from taking a shot at stardom in California, the Kansas City-born Eagle Scout-turned-college basketball player-turned performer is plugging into the entrepreneur community in hopes of more efficiently powering the Battery Tour. “We’re essentially using the universal language of…

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