In Overland Park Kansas, home to Sprint, a new startup called Front Flip has been trying out a new and fun way of engaging customers and increasing loyalty in Kansas, Chicago, Columbia, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, New York, Orlando, Phoenix, Philadelphia, San Antonio, and St. Louis. As we’ve reported with startups like Lokalty
I was born and raised in Kansas City, so as you can probably guess, I’ve had baseball on the mind the past few months. Although my team didn’t clinch the championship, the journey made me realize that the process of making it to the World Series is similar to launching a blog, especially when it’s a new experience
Content marketing is the new black.
Socks may not be revolutionary, but another “of the month” club is actually pretty fun.
Think of America’s most entrepreneurial city. Chances are Kansas City didn’t come to mind,but that’s exactly what the city began calling itself to communicate the importance of building a startup community. Kansas City, Iowa City, and Boulder, Colo., are just a few examples of organic startup communities that have all the ingredients of big tech
Kansas City startup Local Ruckus pivoted to something really needed in the event space and it’s paying off.
LaunchHouse offers kick-ass perks that making starting up in Cleveland pretty awesome.
What the sock? Kansas City startup Sock 101 is taking to Kickstarter to launch a new line, and of course since they’re a startup you can subscribe for a pair of socks a month, more here.
Kansas City’s ThinkBig accelerator announced this morning a brand new partnership with Microsoft Ventures. This new Microsoft partnership compliments the Microsoft BizSpark program to the select few accelerators that have been chosen. Microsoft Ventures currently has accelerator locations in Tel Aviv, Bangalore and Beijing and will open or partner with several more soon, including ThinkBig.
Techstars expands into Kansas City in new partnership with Sprint for the Sprint Mobile Health Accelerator. More here.
SynerScan is changing the way nursing is done. Check out this Nmotion startup in the fastlane.
Blake Miller the Managing Director of Kansas City’s ThinkBig Accelerator is speaking at Everywhere Else Cincinnati September 29-October 1st. We talk to him about running an accelerator in this interview.
The polls are open for the second annual Silicon Prairie Awards, here are the 48 finalists.
The Wednesday morning coffee and networking event called 1 Million Cups, created by the Kauffman Foundation, has added its 10th location and its first northeastern city. It’s not New York, Providence, or Boston. Instead, the latest community to join the 1 Million Cups family is on the Georgetown, Delaware, campus of Delaware Technical Community College. Georgetown, Delaware,
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