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Drivers speeding by on 31st Street near Cherry in Midtown, Kansas City, probably rarely noticed the building — its windows boarded up like so many others.…
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The basic technology of the crutch, Max and Liliana Younger knew, hadn’t changed since the Civil War.But when Max’s father became a permanent crutch user…
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The job summary is a little daunting: Kansas City seeks a creative thinker to find innovative and smart solutions to the city’s complex problems. No big…
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Danny O’Neill has come a long way from his basement—where he first began filling orders for freshly roasted coffee in the early 1990s.“The walls were…
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Sometimes innovation is best left to the dogs. At least, that was the case for Doug Danforth.Danforth had been CEO of Midland Loan Services, a subsidiary…
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Innovation, it is sometimes said, is finding a new way to solve a problem.In 2003, would-be entrepreneurs in Kansas City had a problem, according to Maria…
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Benny Lee grew up in Taiwan. His first visit to Kansas City was in 1975, one of many business trips he would make here on various ventures — from…
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Natasha Kirsch was volunteering at an alcoholic and addict recovery home when the idea—and a well-timed phone call — came to her.Sitting in the business…
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Some innovators develop something completely new. Others take something that everyone thought was working fine and make it better.Since 1987, the National…
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In 2009, Mary Kay O'Connor was preparing to restart her consulting business. Her specialty was collecting customers' stories to provide meaningful…
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EyeVerify, a Kansas City company building a customer and investor base around the globe, was founded by Toby Rush, its CEO, who went looking for a new…
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Like many entrepreneurs, Henry Bloch’s first business idea wasn’t the one that took off.Henry and his brother, Richard Bloch, opened a small, bookkeeping…