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KC Tech Council’s apprenticeship program launches with job growth hopes from Davids, Cleaver

U.S. Reps. Sharice Davids, D-Kansas, and Emanuel Cleaver, D-Missouri

A freshly launched partnership between KC Tech Council and Apprenti — designed to cultivate tech skills and offer first-hand experience for apprentices — is a solid fit for Kansas City’s talent needs, two members of the metro’s U.S. congressional delegation agreed. “I truly believe that entrepreneurship is baked into the DNA of our region,” U.S.…

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How Epigraph visualizes AR changing the way you see the world during (and years after) COVID

Jasper Mullarney, Epigraph

There’s no way around it, Jasper Mullarney said: Augmented reality is the future — and it’s going to impact the way users of everything from iPhones to laptops engage with technology.  “We see a shift from the dominant screen being in your hands to on your face,” Mullarney, co-founder of the visualization technology startup, said of…

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She put down her soda and started walking 10 years ago — 80 pounds later, Ginger McCune’s wellness center is running on impact

Megan Richards, Kelly Mamie, and Ginger McCune, Midwest Nutrition KC

Life is best lived loud — not sitting on the sidelines, wishing you could experience it, explained Ginger McCune.  “If you have a car and it takes premium gas — and you fill it full of regular gas, what’s it gonna do? It’s gonna go for a little bit and then it’s gonna spit and spurt and…

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Fund Me, KC: ‘Black Spartans’ creator changes the tone of fantasy — where Blackness isn’t ‘the exotic other’

Brandon Calloway, Black Spartans Manga

Startland News is continuing its “Fund Me, KC” series to highlight area entrepreneurs’ efforts to accelerate their businesses or lend a helping hand to others. This is an opportunity for entrepreneurs — like Brandon Calloway’s campaign to fund the first book in his “Black Spartans” graphic novel series — to share crowdfunding stories and gain…

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‘A Super Bowl for small business’: Chiefs’ back-to-back playoff success scores for apparel makers 

Chase McAnulty, Charlie Hustle

The Chiefs’ Sunday-night victory over the Buffalo Bills not only means Kansas City’s return to the Super Bowl, but a repeat opportunity for local small business owners amid a rush of hometown pride, said Chase McAnulty.  “When the Chiefs won [in 2020], we were fighting as hard as we could to get as many blank…

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