Startups Stories
Second Edison Spaces flexible office site designed for uncertainty of startup life
Growing a startup is risky enough, said Matt Druten, co-founder of Edison Spaces — entrepreneurs shouldn’t have to worry about finding and maintaining an office. “Changes are unexpected. Nobody really knows where their company is going to be in six months,” he said. “Is my startup going to double in size? Is it going to…
Jasmine Diane: ‘My Girl Story’ empowerment is bigger than T-shirts, Instagram
Jasmine Diane Cooper dreams of inspiring women across the world with the My Girl Story movement, she said. “[As women] we will tear ourselves down or we look for things that kind of separate us, but we all have the same struggle,” said the social media influencer and rising star on the Kansas City marketing…
Pipeline rotates The Innovators gala to Omaha for celebration of fellows, incoming cohort
Pipeline hopes moving its The Innovators gala to Omaha for 2019 will help keep the premier startup event fresh after more than a decade in Kansas City, said Joni Cobb. “Change and experimentation are what Pipeline is all about,” said Cobb, president and CEO of Pipeline. “We are an entrepreneurial organization, and as such we…
Beyond language barriers: DivvyHQ partners with translation tech firm for greater global reach
A newly announced partnership provides DivvyHQ an expanded toolset to open the doors to a global market — translating and delivering any type of marketing-related content across any device, channel or language, said Brock Stechman. “We’ve been working so hard over the past few years to really build this company from the ground up,” said…
‘Millennial’ isn’t a curse word — it’s a critical marketing tool, says Social Apex Media
Social Apex Media is designed to feed the creativity of hungry millennial entrepreneurs who don’t fit into the corporate culture of many other marketing agencies, said Brandon Priest. “We’re building Social Apex on the backs of entrepreneurs. That means instead of employees who feel like, ‘OK, I just got to work 9 to 5 every…
