People & Places
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…
Profile: Callie England of Rawxies
Callie England is the owner of Rawxies, a healthy food startup located in the east bottoms in Kansas City, Mo. She attended the Kansas City Art Institute before going full-time with her business.
‘Buspreneurs’ road-trip to TX for startup competition
Next week, Hale Center for Journalism reporter Caitlin Cress will be riding on the Startup Bus, an annual competition/road trip. She will be reporting, blogging, Instagramming and tweeting the whole way; follow that coverage, starting Sunday morning, here. A charter bus will leave the Kauffman Foundation parking lot early this Sunday morning. On it will…
Mayor James to travel to Moscow for Global Entrepreneurship Congress
Kansas City, Mo., Mayor Sly James will be traveling to Moscow next month to take part in the 2014 Global Entrepreneurship Congress.
Storify: 1 Million Cups with On Track Fundraising and Bike Share KC
Every week, entrepreneurship reporter Kyle Geary reports on 1 Million Cups at the Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City. This week, local businesses On Track Fundraising and Bike Share KC presented, and Kyle captured some of the social media reactions using Storify.