Tag: kansas city

Tiger 21 expands its invite-only peer network in KC as number of ultra-wealthy leaders rises

admin — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 18:29:33 +0000

A prestigious — and relatively new-to-Kansas City — resource for high-net-worth C-suite leaders and successful entrepreneurs and founders is expanding: Tiger 21, a premier peer membership organization for ultra-wealth creators and preservers, is adding a second group.

Small Biz to Watch: Deposit The Work builds mass with tech-enabled consistency — no excuses, all grit

admin — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 16:00:26 +0000

Editor’s note: Startland News is showcasing five Kansas City small businesses this week through the newsroom’s first-ever Small Biz to Watch series, presented by Bank of America. The following highlights one of the 2025 honorees, curated by editors from Kansas City’s wide array of hard-working entrepreneurs and business owners.

KCMO is building a skate park under the Buck O’Neil Bridge (and tagging artists for the blank canvas)

admin — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 18:29:15 +0000

Editor’s note: The following story was published by KCUR, Kansas City’s NPR member station, and a fellow member of the KC Media Collective.

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Culinary Center cooking with plans to expand from Overland Park into Northland shops

admin — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 17:40:53 +0000

After nearly 30 years in downtown Overland Park, The Culinary Center of Kansas City is expanding with a second location.

It plans a late 2025 or an early 2026 opening in the former Ombra small plates + librations spot in The Village at Briarcliff, 4161 N. Mulberry St. in the Northland. The space will be remodeled.
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Small Biz to Watch: Chick-In Waffle scales its cleverly KC-sauced identity, tapping Gen Z soul, God’s blessings

admin — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 15:10:38 +0000

Editor’s note: Startland News is showcasing five Kansas City small businesses this week through the newsroom’s first-ever Small Biz to Watch series, presented by Bank of America. The following highlights one of the 2025 honorees, curated by editors from Kansas City’s wide array of hard-working entrepreneurs and business owners.
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How Boddle’s product-driven approach built educational games that kids ask their parents to buy

admin — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 19:25:47 +0000

Editor’s note: The perspectives expressed in this commentary are the author’s alone.
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Small Biz to Watch: Someday Sunday opens the door to me-time without guilt (or toxins)

admin — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 17:47:10 +0000

Editor’s note: Startland News is showcasing five Kansas City small businesses this week through the newsroom’s first-ever Small Biz to Watch series, presented by Bank of America. The following highlights one of the 2025 honorees, curated by editors from Kansas City’s wide array of hard-working entrepreneurs and business owners.
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Fund Me, KC: ULAH asks Kansas City to help save Westwood menswear store as pandemic debt looms

admin — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 21:13:52 +0000

Startland News is continuing its long-running “Fund Me, KC” series to highlight area entrepreneurs’ efforts to accelerate their businesses or lend a helping hand to others.
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These 15 KCMO projects just got a $19M+ boost; funding focused on inclusive community investments

admin — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 20:42:58 +0000

A pair of high-profile projects at 18th and Vine — restoring the Boone Theater and its Kansas City jazz legacy, along with transforming the long-vacant Workhouse Castle into a boutique hotel — offer just a few notes from a chorus of just-funded redevelopment initiatives aimed at buoying small business and tackling challenges in Kansas City’s urban core.
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Meet 7 startups just funded to turn potential into Kansas City-built tech innovation

admin — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 19:46:57 +0000

The latest crop of Digital Sandbox KC companies — earning up to $20,000 in project funding for their concepts — are poised to make significant impacts within their industries, said Jill Meyer, noting a through-line from digital health to AI-powered construction and fantasy sports solutions.
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Cosmo Burger brings its mouth-watering tots, boozy milkshakes to East Crossroads’ bustling streets of eats

admin — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 20:10:32 +0000

Bringing Cosmo Burger to the Crossroads required cousins Atit and Jugal Patel to cook their plans to perfection, serving up the brand’s first full-service brick-and-mortar location after years of trial by griddle.
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Independence day: Flipping from side-hustle to full-time requires grind behind glory

admin — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 17:57:38 +0000

Founders found freedom in the journey (but they’re grateful for what they didn’t know was ahead)

Jason Taylor walked away from big tech for good in January — leaving behind a dream résumé that included a long engineering career at Microsoft, then Google, for the freedom to pursue what had once been just a passion project: his own custom cabinetry company that soon would be seen on national TV.
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Family history, franchise model help second-chapter entrepreneur jump business obstacles

admin — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 16:28:31 +0000

Throughout his career as a car salesman and mortgage broker, Brad Staples felt a calling toward entrepreneurship, he said. And when those industries ran dry, the Missouri native realized it was time to try on a familiar hat: running a family business.
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‘America the Entrepreneurial’: Can builders restore the promise of ‘the most courageous startup the world has ever seen?’

admin — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:29:26 +0000

Risk-takers set the story of the United States of America in motion, said Victor W. Hwang, lamenting a modern day reality where needless barriers too often work against entrepreneurs and young businesses.

An upcoming milestone birthday for the nation offers a focal point for restoring a coast-to-coast commitment to supporting builders and dreamers, he said, detailing the launch of “America the Entrepreneurial” — a civic campaign championing economic mobility through entrepreneurship.
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KC arts groups ‘left reeling’ after MO governor slashes millions from budget

admin — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 14:28:19 +0000

Editor’s note: The following story was published by KCUR, Kansas City’s NPR member station, and a fellow member of the KC Media Collective.
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