People & Places
To Your Marks: 90 seconds with Rawxies
Rawxies founder Callie England may best be defined by her tenacity. England, who serves as CEO of the Kansas City-based vegan snack company, worked tirelessly in recent months to raise local funds — to the tune of $512,000 — that will accelerate her business. She moved her company from Petaluma, Calif. to Kansas City in 2013…
Your fave TEDxKC Speakers: Where are they now?
We catch up with three former TEDxKC speakers to take a look at their big ideas and what they are doing now. Speaker: Diana Kander Year: 2014 The ‘Idea Worth Spreading’: Most businesses are created with businesses, not people, in mind. Quote worth remembering: “Since the 1980s, we’ve had an explosion in the number of classrooms…
Set Your Watch: 90 seconds with local innovators and entrepreneurs
It’s coming! Set your watch as we team up with Startland News to highlight Kansas City’s innovators and entrepreneurs, all in 90 seconds. “90 on the Clock” premieres next Wednesday, September 23 with Callie England, creator of Rawxies, as she talks about her East Bottoms business and its raw, vegan, and gluten- and soy-free cookies. The five-part series continues…
Hopes for new life, and new traffic, at KC barge terminal
The view from Kansas City’s old river barge terminal in the West Bottoms offers a panoramic sweep of the downtown skyline, and a glimpse of just about every mode of transportation. Planes fly in and out of Wheeler Downtown Airport just across the Missouri River, and trains and trucks haul freight over the Broadway and…
Kansas City’s cup of tea
There are four cups sitting in front of Tyler Beckett, in a small warehouse just north of the river in Kansas City. Beckett uses a spoon to sip the first sample. “It’s got that nice beautiful smokiness to it.” he says about his first taste. He takes a sip of the second sample. It’s more…