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Tech Startup Scene in Kansas City Is Red Hot!

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Tech Startup Scene in Kansas City Is Red Hot! Long referred to as the “Silicon Prairie,” Kansas City is quietly making its mark as a great place for startups of all flavors. If you’ve not checked out the startup scene in Kansas City you’re missing out! photo credit: Moose Winans via photopin cc.

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

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How about in the last 12 months deals announced with Dwolla (Iowa) and Pollenware (Kansas City). If you’re working with early-stage companies you need to be spending quality time with them which means you need to be nearby. Angry Birds? From startup Rovio in Finland. Think USV is only invested around Union Square in NYC?

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Are You From Where Your Were Born?

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He’s most known for founding Foundry Group, a prominent venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investment, but also co-founded startup accelerator Techstars.” ” I was born in Blytheville, Arkansas on an air force base in 1965. My dad’s brother Charlie followed him to Dallas a few years later in 1970.

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After 20 years: Updating the Berkus Method of valuation

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Originally created in the mid 1990’s to help with the imprecise problem of how to value early stage companies, especially those in technology, I developed what soon became known as “The Berkus Method” when published in the popular book, “Winning Angels” by Harvard’s Amis and Stevenson with my permission in 2001.

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Transcript of Crafting Growth-Focused Content for Your Business

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I then moved my family to Kansas to be a music guy out there. And I think that in the early days it was sort of novel that people had content, and obviously like you said, the search engines didn’t have as much content to chew through so they would surface your content. This is where my story gets crazy.

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Transcript of How to Build a Community Around Your Business

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In Kansas City. But in the early stages it does require a reasonable chunk of work. But what does need a lot of work is when people start joining your community, you need to have people who are regularly engaging with them and encouraging them to participate, because what builds communities is a sense of momentum.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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Or the growth of Dwolla in Iowa or C2FO being built in Kansas City? This can have an enormous benefit to kick-starting a local startup community as it will ensure many more early-stage at-bats happen locally. 20 years ago could you have imagined ExactTarget becoming a multi-billion company in Indianapolis? Welcome to the future.