Backstitch’s Backstory Includes Corporate Support from Telecom Giant’s KC Accelerator
See how backstitch found startup support in Kansas City and used corporate connections to weave success.
28May
12Mar
Corporate Engagement with KC Entrepreneurs Needs Work: Here’s How We Fix It
The first We Create Corporate Engagement report maps ways to improve relationships and collaboration among corporations, entrepreneurs and universities.
10Mar
Corporate Engagement in Action: 130-Year-Old Railroad Company Rides Rails to Innovation with Startup Partnerships
Kansas City Southern turns to Plug and Play—a Sunnyvale, California, incubator—to find startups offering the innovative solutions it needs to stay competitive in the 21st century.
25Apr
KC Entrepreneur Philip Hickman Wants Interactive Stories in Everyone’s Pocket
Philip Hickman's lifelong love of learning brought him back to Kansas City to build an app that aims to put interactive books in everyone's pockets.
24Apr
Kansas City Is Creating Something Amazing: Here’s How You Can Join In
Kansas City helps its entrepreneurs, and we all have a role to play.
19Apr
KC Entrepreneur Joe Vazquez Recounts Journey from Losing His Job to $38M+
For Joe Vazquez, the road to creating Vazquez Commercial Contracting, a growing company now worth $38 million (and counting), was tough.
12Apr
How KC Entrepreneur Nick Ward-Bopp Built a Makerspace for Inventing, Creating
Nick Ward-Bopp graduated during the worst of the 2009 financial crisis, but he forged a new career with Maker Village KC, a makerspace in the heart of Kansas City.
05Apr
KCSourceLink Releases 6th ‘We Create KC’ Report on Kansas City Entrepreneurship
See how connectivity, capital, talent, innovation, awareness and corporate engagement are propelling Kansas City toward becoming the most entrepreneurial city in America.
05Apr
A Battle with Cancer Inspired KC Entrepreneur Gigi Jones’ Businesses
A bout with cancer helped this Kansas City serial entrepreneur develop healthy alternatives for others.
28Apr
Growing Entrepreneurial Communities Summit Brings 200+ Ecosystem Builders to Kansas City
More than 200 economic developers and entrepreneurship ecosystem builders from around the nation gathered in KC to discuss the future of Entrepreneurship on the Edges.