crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 30, 2011

Time to move to Kansas City for faster Internet speeds? Eye Candy for the Weekend – Most Colorful Cities on the Globe – [link]. I tend to agree that the Amazon cloud storage service for music isn’t especially innovative – [link]. – [link]. Teach your kid to ride a two-wheeler.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Since 2015, Startland News has helped Kansas City entrepreneurs shout their triumphs from the rooftops — a critical piece of storytelling as the local startup community evolves beyond good ideas written on napkins to the home of powerhouse startups and nine-figure exits.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2013

And I am often approached by entrepreneurs in cities which don’t have a vibrant VC community. Where do you want to build your community, your relationships, your family?” If their commitment to staying local is weak I normally say, “Well, it certainly would be easier on you to be in a larger community.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. Or the growth of Dwolla in Iowa or C2FO being built in Kansas City? What Does a City Need to Compete?

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Yesterday Techstars announced the launch of Techstars Kansas City. This is a city-based horizontal accelerator similar to the ones we have in Boulder, Boston, Seattle, Austin, New York City, London and Berlin. I have a long history with Kansas City. Come join us if you are in town and interested.

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The Next Web

JULY 6, 2013

You don’t have to be located in Silicon Valley to take part in a great startup community. If you’re motivated enough to start your own business and create something great from a simple idea, then you’re certainly motivated enough to jumpstart a local startup community. Why worry about a startup community?

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Is it gonna cause you linguistic problems in other, you know, not just other countries, but even locally, if you have a Spanish speaking community in your, uh, city yeah. And so they could call themselves Kansas city power and light. So checking and doing all, you know, checking all of those things is, is critical.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

It’s based in Kansas City (Sprint’s headquarters) and is our fourth powered by Techstars accelerator, joining Nike , Kaplan , and R/GA. I’m an enormous fan of four things about the Sprint Accelerator – what we call “PBTS” (powered by Techstars), mobile health, Kansas City, and Sprint.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 17, 2013

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m doing this as an experiment around Startup Communities. I’m fascinated about what is going on in Kansas City around Google Fiber and rather than observe, I decided to participate. Startup Communities fiberhood homes for hackers kansas city kc fiberhouse kc startup village'

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 7, 2015

I’m running another competition for a startup to live for a year for free in my Kansas City FiberHouse. When I bought my house in Kansas City in 2013 , I announced my intentions clearly. As part of helping create the Kansas City startup community. “I’m not going to be living in it.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 17, 2014

Yesterday, Kauffman Foundation released a study that provided empirical support for the Boulder Thesis that I came up with in my book Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City. 1 Million Cups Denver was also a recipient of one of the first Startup Colorado Community Fund grants.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Matt Scanlon is a fellow Kansas City business owner. He runs The Hill KC , which began as a local CrossFit gym and has expanded to offer corporate wellness products and services to folks in the community who have disabilities or need help getting access to wellness services.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 18, 2013

The chance to apply to win a slot to live in my Google Fiber enabled house in Kansas City are open for one more week – ending on March 25th at 17:00 CDT. I’m looking for entrepreneurs who are committed to living in Kansas City for a year who have a unique and novel approach to taking advantage of 1 gigibit Internet.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

I spent the day in Kansas City yesterday at the Kauffman Foundation for my first Startup Weekend board meeting. It was created by Andrew Hyde (he was the Community Manager for TechStars at the time). I was at the first Startup Weekend in Boulder in July 2007. If you’ve never done a Startup Weekend, try one.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 24, 2017

Trey Bowles from The Dallas Entrepreneurship Center (The DEC), Joshua Baer from Capital Factory, JR Reale from Station Houston, and Preston James from DivInc together in Kansas City, MO for the Kauffman Foundation Eship Summit. This was my first time visiting Kansas City. Many other communities are starting from nothing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 23, 2011

We struggle with this issue every year, because we strongly encourage everyone who can to participate with their local entrepreneurship community. Strengthening ties between entrepreneurs is one of our most important values. That said, there comes a point where that's not possible for everyone.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

When I released this information into the community my life became in danger. We started Prestige Transportation, LLC a Kansas City based Black Car Limousine Service because I was working part-time for another Limousine Company and my girlfriend was convinced we could do it better. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 31, 2014

If your community allows flyers to be placed around town, use them. Peter Decker is the owner and operator of BizCardXpress in Kansas City specializing in banner, yard sign and business card printing and graphic design with a 24-hour turn around. . They’re an effective marketing strategy, and they’re simple.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 26, 2015

So this weekend was about startup communities with a bonus book on the startup visa tossed in for good measure. I don’t like the title – it’s too intentionally provocative for my tastes because I’m not anti-Silicon Valley but rather pro-building startup communities everywhere – but the book is excellent.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 3, 2015

There is extensive content and examples around Startup Communities, included in the Paths to Entrepreneurship section. I made a few guest appearance, including in the long article about the Kansas City Startup Village. Entrepreneurship kansas city startup village kauffman foundation kauffman thoughtbook startup communities'

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 29, 2016

I’ve recently joined the board of directors and enjoyed spending two days in Kansas City immersed in things with the Kauffman Fellows, a bunch of friends, and a number of LPs and GPs that came to the event. As part of it, I gave a talk and did Q&A with Lesa Mitchell (now the Managing Director of Techstars Kansas City).

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

At Duct Tape Marketing, we only have two team members that work out of the home office in Kansas City. The community groups are an effective way to build community, encourage networking and sharing tools/advice over the years. Sara Jantsch is the Director of Community at Duct Tape Marketing.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

He also didn’t believe in supporting the community and supporting local organizations through our skills. More importantly, we continue to help the community through pro-bono projects, supporting non-profits and charitable campaigns, and giving back where and when we can. Six years in business later, we continue to grow.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 10, 2015

In an effort to buy real estate in burgeoning startup communities around the United States while more deeply engaging in the startup community, my partners and I have bought a house in the Cass Corridor neighborhood in Detroit. Since I stay in my guest bedroom at the Kansas City house when I’m there, I’m a fan of this.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 8, 2019

” Started it on the corporate side, and have just started to do it across industries and into nonprofits and educational organizations, community, cities as well. ” It’s tough to describe for sure. They come up with ideas, but they know how to implement them.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2023

It's in big and small, dark, John Jantsch (12:33): I don't fly airplanes, but I've heard pilots talk about this idea, you know, when you talk about a one degree change, you know, you take off from Denver and if you're one degree off the entire way, you're gonna end up in Tulsa instead of, you know, Kansas City three big change.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 20, 2011

The next couple of days are going to be amazing, as the Lean Startup community converges on San Francisco. Welcome to our fair city. If you're in town Saturday night, you'll want to stop by Ignite: Lean Startup , a community-run event that features a number of new voices in the Lean Startup community.

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David Cohen

JUNE 18, 2022

It’s why the Kansas City Report showed that Black women left corporate in droves seeking this freedom. I am encouraged by the efforts nationwide to close equity gaps in the Black community, but it didn’t take 2 years to get us here, and 2 years won’t get us out. Here’s the issue though.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 11, 2017

I’ll be here again today for Venture Atlanta and then I’m on to Kansas City for Techstars Kansas City Demo Day. I haven’t been here in a while but it’s pretty awesome to see how the startup community has grown in the past five years. I’m also being more careful about how I do it.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

I know I’ve subscribed for my Kansas City daily paper for years, but I think you’re talking about something much larger than that. So now they’ve added this value to the basic service, which is this community around it, and the chance for people to contribute and share something with other people and the members.So

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 6, 2012

When my children were little we would make almost weekly treks to the basement of the Plaza branch of the Kansas City library. These public places are only as strong as the communities that help them thrive. The group of children’s librarians that hung out with us in that place knew the perfect book for us every time.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 24, 2018

What we’ve been doing is helping other professional services business owners who were much like ourselves and did one-on-one type of work and help them to kind of make the shift to one to many so that they can free up more of their time and that they can impact a larger community of people. I mean, what does that even man anymore?

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 26, 2012

Those are all parts of the puzzle, but if you want to build a business that cannot fail, spend what may feel like an exorbitant amount of time focused on building and nourishing a community. In a perfect world, every business would spend a year or so doing nothing but community building before they ever opened the doors.

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Austin Startup

MAY 17, 2018

This “you can’t tell us what to do” whining is now putting Austin at the bottom of the list when it comes to smart city technology deployment. A smart city uses connected technology to optimize a city’s operations, improve quality of life and increase economic development. Cities all across the country?—?like

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Obvious things like blog posts with suburb names and maps with directions are a must, but you might also consider adding a community calendar and blogging about events that happen in your town. If you search on a term like “SEO” and Google thinks you are in say, in Kansas City, you are going to see a list of Kansas City based SEO companies.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 3, 2012

The historic Folly Theater Kansas City, Mo shot during Guy Clark show. Has a very nice community building aspect that makes it ideal for companies as internal or customer tool. BigMarker – a free and unlimited tool for hosting web and video conferences.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 5, 2013

And finally, I plan to introduce how a vibrant community, perhaps the highest objective of any business today, is built not through social media, but through the confluence of a specific set of socially assisted practices. Communities don’t generally form around, products, services or companies.

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