People & Places
Mentorship valued for mobile health care startups
The atmosphere at Techstars’ mobile health accelerator at the Sprint Accelerator is similar to other startup environments: some people are working intently with their headphones on, while others are goofing off. There are snack wrappers and cans of Redbull everywhere. Individual team members are off to the side filming testimonial for Sprint. A few people…
Profile: Melissa Roberts of Free State Strategy Group LLC
Melissa Roberts is a small business owner and advocate in Kansas City. She is fills multiple entrepreneurial facets within the community from advising to creating sustainable businesses in the metro.
1 Million Cups with Zoomin Market and Dark Horse Distillery
Kansas City is one of many cities across the country that hosts weekly 1 Million Cups events Wednesday mornings. This week entrepreneurs packed inside the Kauffman Foundation to see Zoomin Market and Dark Horse Distillery present.
Iowa-based FullStack expands to Kansas City
A new full-service startup development company has expanded into Kansas City. Iowa-based Fullstack celebrated the move at its launch party Wednesday evening at Snow & Co. in the Crossroads district. The event hosted entrepreneurs from the Kansas City Startup Village and the Sprint Accelerator.
Cracking the code: metro students learn to program
Computer science is a growing field. In fact, according to Code.org, it is growing so fast that the number of jobs available outnumbers the total number of computer science students in the country.