Tag: WeWork

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Entrepreneurial inspiration: How a wheelchair freed Wesley Hamilton

By Tommy Felts / September 18, 2017

Editor’s note: Kansas City fitness and community advocate Wesley Hamilton offered four inspirational tips for entrepreneurs, illustrated by his own remarkable experiences overcoming adversity. Two bullets pierced Wesley Hamilton’s back, confining him to a wheelchair, but freeing his mind, the Kansas City adaptive athlete said. “I found that being shot by someone I never knew…

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SoftBank invests $4.4 billion in WeWork

By Tommy Felts / August 25, 2017

Global coworking giant WeWork recently raked in a massive investment from SoftBank. The Tokyo-based conglomerate and its $93-billion Vision Fund has injected $4.4 billion into WeWork, which has 23 coworking spaces in the United States — including a shared, 40,000- square-foot workspace in Kansas City in the Crossroads Arts District — and more than 27…

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Kansas City legal startup returns with WeWork award, $18K

By Tommy Felts / June 28, 2017

A co-founder of Kansas City-based Venture Legal is departing from Austin, Texas, on Wednesday with a little more coin in his pocket. Chris Brown traveled to Austin to pitch his company Venture Legal as a finalist for WeWork’s Creator Awards’ South Regional on Tuesday and delivered the winning video pitch in the “Incubate” category. Beating…

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Three KC startups are finalists in national WeWork competition

By Tommy Felts / June 20, 2017

Three Kansas City-area firms are among the finalists in a national startup competition that could earn them significant prize money. Venture Legal, Bungii and Cambrian are the three area startups that beat out more than 2,000 other applicants to earn one of 30 spots in WeWork’s Creator Awards’ South Regional Final on June 27. WeWork…

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KC entrepreneurial leader Wullschleger becomes new WeWork director

By Tommy Felts / June 8, 2017

Before its doors even open, WeWork is making significant inroads to the area entrepreneur community. The international coworking giant — which announced plans to create a 40,000-square-foot space in Kansas City in March — has hired Erik Wullschleger to become its community director. Most recently the director of LiveKC and previously general manager of the…

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