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Legacy play: Chiefs team up with developer from family roster to bring KCK, Olathe football hubs to gameday ready
Two companies founded by sports and business icon Lamar Hunt are drawing on their shared vision and lineage to shape a new year-round, mixed-use entertainment district surrounding the Kansas City Chiefs’ stadium in Wyandotte County, Kansas, as well as a hub near the franchise’s new headquarters and training facility in Olathe.
LaunchKC graduates tap Kansas City energy, ‘electricity’ to power social venture growth
Escaping the clamor of Los Angeles for Kansas City has been refreshing, said Montre Moore, whose company AMP Beauty is among two drawn to the region for the fifth cohort of LaunchKC’s Social Venture Studio.
How Dolly Parton’s sparkle lit the way for this entrepreneur’s outlook on self, the business of beauty
Alley Gage won’t say sorry for crying so hard that she needed to take off her lashes this week after learning about the death of entertainer-turned-business mogul Dolly Parton — her favorite glamour girl and an American icon. Parton wouldn’t have apologized either, the owner of Alley Gage Beauty said, noting the star never let anyone dull her sparkle.
‘Going bigger than ever before’: Meet the star finalists vying for $60K in AltCap Your Biz prizes
Nearly a dozen small businesses are set to compete this fall for $60,000 in prizes, AltCap Your Biz organizers said Friday, announcing 10 finalists in the expanded pitch competition’s 11th journey to the stage with Kansas City entrepreneurs.
Here’s how a rebooted Westport favorite plans to earn its ‘Best Burger in KC’ banner
Fans of Westport’s longtime Green Room Burgers & Beer and Westport Coffeehouse Theater feared new owners would “corporatize it,” subdivide the space, or even tear down the well-positioned corner for condos at the edge for the entertainment district. But after Matt and Tessa Ortiz experienced the scene as customers, they only wanted the neighborhood mainstay…
Private funds’ road to high-speed liquidity runs through KC; a new Nasdaq partnership sweetens the deal
Brian King is building what many in finance have long struggled to figure out: a real way to sell alternative investments. And with a just-announced Nasdaq partnership, he’s leveraging infrastructure at scale to deliver even more options for investors.
Andrea Bough swaps city council seat for interim EDCKC exec role amid shakeup at eco devo agency
Moving a sitting city council member into the top leadership role at the Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City — even temporarily — will force a vacancy on the council, Mayor Quinton Lucas acknowledged Wednesday, as the EDCKC transitions Andrea Bough into the president and CEO position previously held by Tracey Lewis.
Outdoor match: Missouri founder starts new journey, pairing users with the right gear to take a hike
A Missouri entrepreneur known for breaking down barriers is taking her next project on a hike out of stealth mode. Krista Peryer’s new online platform hacks her tech background and love of nature to pair users with their ideal outdoor equipment and apparel. It all comes back to the classic founder path, she said: Experience…
Private, encrypted documentation tool adds time stamp amid fog of confusion, founder says
Notarus keeps important moments — notes, photos, documents, and readings — in a private, tamper-evident timeline, especially useful for those who are co-parenting, caregiving, homeschooling, and on a sobriety journey. “Rather than simply storing individual events, it helps users understand what the accumulated record actually shows, without making diagnoses or unsupported conclusions,” said Jameson Huckaba.
Smart glasses at work: How employers using (or banning) the tech could face legal challenges
AI-enabled smart glasses take a step further than the traditional “body camera” surveillance footage, given the technology’s ability to retain and assess information, such as biometric information. That creates new concerns for employers who might want to implement the devices — or even keep them out of the workplace altogether, writes a team of attorneys from Polsinelli.
