People & Places
28th annual Entrepreneur of the Year awards held at UMKC Bloch School
Kyle Geary | Kansas City, MO –The 28th annual Entrepreneur of the Year award ceremony was held Monday, October 21, at the Bloch executive hall for Entrepreneurship and Innovation on the University of Missouri–Kansas City campus. The ceremony serves as a fundraiser for UMKC and the Bloch school. There were four honorees this year. The…
Startup Village survives first year
KC Startup Village celebrated their first birthday with a block party.
Second Annual IKC event brings the Unconference to Kansas City
Kansas City, MO – The IKC 2013 Unconference had entrepreneurs colliding Thursday inside the H&R Block world headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri, but that’s actually a good thing. The event was aiming to increase “collision density” in Kansas City – that is, the number of entrepreneurs living within an area that can connect and network…
Kansas City Business Leaders Gather to Focus on Sustainability
Kansas City, MO — Kansas City business and civic leaders along with organizations such as BASE KC and the American Sustainable Business Council attended a discussion September 27th at UMKC’s new Bloch Executive Hall of Entrepreneurship and Innovation. The topic of the event was the local impact of climate change on businesses. The two-part meeting…
Big 5 Report: KC Biotech Start-up Working on Diabetes Cure for Pets
KCPT reporters Todd Feeback and Lindsey Foat visited Kansas City’s Likarda, a 2012 biotech startup hoping to help companion animals suffering from diabetes–using a treatment that started with dogs, then moved to humans, and now, back to dogs. Every day at 6am and 6pm Stephanie Kallas gives her mini-dachshund Daisy a shot of insulin to help…