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Tire Pig inflates ZOHR founders’ mobile tire service concept with new AI engine, ‘effortless’ installation

Under the hood, ZOHR’s reboot as Tire Pig is using AI to make buying tires simple and intuitive, Komal Choong said. On the surface, the company is building a brand that’s fun, positive, and different from anything else in the aftermarket auto sector.

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The TAM Scam: Why the next economy won’t need your pitch deck’s market-size slide

For most of modern business history, directly observing economic activity was slow, expensive, or impossible. We developed proxies to compress uncertainty into numbers that executives, lenders, and investors could use. But as technology makes economic activity more observable, the proxies we built for an earlier era become harder to defend.

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Peek inside: Made in KC debuts its Power and Light retail-cafe concept alongside Rainy Day Books

Every vibrant and healthy downtown community should have a local bookstore, said Keith Bradley, describing how the just-opened Made in KC at Power and Light fills a hole on the entertainment district’s shelf.

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Royals stadium plans written in limestone; new design details put Populous placemaking on deck

A new Royals stadium built at Crown Center is expected to embed the baseball club into the foundational bedrock of the city itself for years to come — the physical expression of ballpark designer Populous’ strategy for placemaking within built and natural environments.

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Wearables founder offers a bear hug to KS innovation incentives; here’s why he hopes fellow startups are listening

Bear Clark is proud that he and his EAR Micro team are building the latest in ear computer technology — innovation drawing interest from the likes of Google and Meta, he said — right here in Kansas. But Clark’s pride in the Sunflower State doesn’t stop with geography.

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