People & Places

Rachel Hack Merlo in Google's Kansas City, Ks., Office.

Profile: Rachel Hack Merlo of Google

Every week I profile individuals active in the entrepreneurial community. This week I sat down with Rachel Hack Merlo. She is Google’s Community Manager for Kansas City, and was recently selected as one of Kansas City’s most influential women of 2014 by KC Business Magazine.

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Kansas City team CropRate competes in Startup Bus semi-finals

Each year, Startup Buses around the country head towards Austin for the South By Southwest Interactive Festival. Startup Bus is a competition where businesspeople, designers and coders — buspreneurs — create a startup, from idea to pitch, while on a three-day bus trip to the finals in San Antonio. Caitlin Cress, reporter for The Hale…

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1 Million Cups logo with mug and heaphones

1 Million Cups with FEWDM Fitness and Farmobile

Every Wednesday morning cities across the United States host a 1 Million Cups event. In Kansas City, it is held inside the Kauffman Foundation. This week visitors packed into the auditorium to see FEWDM Fitness and Farmobile.

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Day 2 of Startup Bus Midwest delayed, detoured by ice

Each year, Startup Buses around the country head towards Austin for the South By Southwest Interactive Festival. Startup Bus is a competition where businesspeople, designers and coders — buspreneurs — create a startup, from idea to pitch, while on a three-day bus trip to the finals in San Antonio. Caitlin Cress, reporter for The Hale…

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Scotty Motte and Carl Shotwell of Angry Corner pose for their team photo. They're looking appropriately angry. (Photo by Caitlin Cress/The Hale Center for Journalism)

Buspreneurs face good, bad surprises on day 1

Each year, Startup Buses around the country head towards Austin for the South By Southwest Interactive Festival. Startup Bus is a competition where businesspeople, designers and coders — buspreneurs — create a startup, from idea to pitch, while on a three-day bus trip to the finals in San Antonio. Caitlin Cress, reporter for The Hale…

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