Tag: Zach Pettet

Zach Pettet, Fountain City Fintech; and Erika Klotz, PopBookings, KC Mythbusters

Human capital: KC Mythbusters challenges Kansas City to rethink how it supports startups

By Tommy Felts / October 18, 2018

A thriving startup ecosystem requires more stakeholders with skin in the game, said Eric Jorgenson. That means increasing direct participation — those actively and directly building or investing in startups that can potentially exit and see a talent and capital explosion that results in even newer startups — and de-emphasizing the need for and dependence…

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Zach Pettet, Fountain City FinTech, nbkc

Fountain City FinTech first cohort named; could draw coastal, international companies to KC

By Tommy Felts / September 27, 2018

A half-dozen companies from outside Kansas City earned spots among the first cohort of Fountain City FinTech, said Zach Pettet, hopeful the metro could attract the firms to stay or build long-term partnerships. “There’s a good chance that a number of firms will be putting down roots and creating jobs in Kansas City. We don’t…

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Big Data Summit returning to Techweek KC; organizer lauds refreshed content for 2018

By Tommy Felts / September 27, 2018

Enhanced leadership, along with the Big Data Summit Track, is bringing the “tech” back to Techweek KC, said Don Peterson. The Big Data Summit, Kansas City’s annual convergence of data, technology and analytics, founded by Peterson and the KC Big Data Group in 2012, had stopped working with Techweek KC after the 2016 event, he…

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Techweek 100 list

Techweek 100 list released: Dozens of KC’s top cultivators, ambassadors and innovators

By Tommy Felts / September 22, 2018

Techweek Kansas City on Friday released its Techweek 100 list of the premier leaders pushing innovation in Kansas City. The collection of cultivators, ambassadors and innovators is a who’s who of familiar names across the startup, entrepreneurship and tech communities. Released in the runup to Techweek KC’s Oct. 8-12 festivities, the list isn’t a ranking,…

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Sandy Kemper, C2FO, Innovation Exchange

Sandy Kemper at IXKC: Trust is the hack for building FinTech or any startup in KC (Photos)

By Tommy Felts / June 20, 2018

Act like everyone is watching … because they are, Sandy Kemper said. “It’s something I think a lot of folks — maybe not from around here — fail to understand,” the C2FO chairman and CEO told a packed crowd Tuesday at Startland’s Innovation Exchange at nbkc bank. “You cannot get away with anything. And some…

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