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Techstars in Kansas City

Feld Thoughts

Yesterday Techstars announced the launch of Techstars Kansas City. This is a city-based horizontal accelerator similar to the ones we have in Boulder, Boston, Seattle, Austin, New York City, London and Berlin. I have a long history with Kansas City.

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Transcript of Business Lessons Learned on the Baseball Field

Duct Tape Marketing

He is a speaker, MC and a television announcer with 25 years or so under his belt, the last 12 with the Kansas City Royals. John Jantsch: I have to tell you, first off, a lot of my listeners know that I’m in Kansas City and that I’m a Kansas City Royals fan that I got a solid single off of Monte at fantasy camp.

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

Both Sides of the Table

How about in the last 12 months deals announced with Dwolla (Iowa) and Pollenware (Kansas City). Every city should have a “BuildIn” program. Local Press / Websites / Organizational Tools – New York has an amazing startup scene and the energy and momentum is palpable. From startup Rovio in Finland.

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The Top 10 Duct Tape Marketing Podcast Episodes for 2019

Duct Tape Marketing

I chatted with some incredible guests, I did some solo shows where I could share a bit about the Duct Tape Marketing philosophy, and I got to share excerpts from my latest book, The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur , which was released in October. Matt Scanlon is a fellow Kansas City business owner. Jason Kander served in the U.S.

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Your city doesn’t have a startup community? Start one!

The Next Web

Conventional wisdom told entrepreneurs it was necessary to live in one of the central hubs if you wanted your business to thrive. This is especially true for entrepreneurs with newborn tech businesses they want to see grow up big and strong. As an entrepreneur, I’m a lone wolf!” Why worry about a startup community?

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

The New York startup scene is vibrant and launching companies that play to NYs great strengths which are many. Or the growth of Dwolla in Iowa or C2FO being built in Kansas City? What Does a City Need to Compete? And in commerce we have NastyGal, DailyLook, JustFab and many others. KickStarter? And on and on.

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Startup Lessons Learned 2011 streaming live

Startup Lessons Learned

Strengthening ties between entrepreneurs is one of our most important values. We struggle with this issue every year, because we strongly encourage everyone who can to participate with their local entrepreneurship community. That said, there comes a point where that's not possible for everyone.