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Lawn care and pet care collide at 1 Million Cups Kansas City this week. EDU Lawn Service This locally owned and operated lawn service strives to not only provide superior care to clients, but also to help kids and veterans work their way through college and graduate debt-free. EDU Lawn Service is a 501(c)(3) that hires college kids as well as veterans who want to gain real-life skills, learn how…
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This week, 1 Million Cups at the Kauffman Foundation featured startups that want to help users get great content faster and create their own custom-edited videos. ContentKid This Web-based portal and app interface allows customers to pay a short-lived subscription to any participating digital provider’s premium content via one account, one password and one secure place for their credit card information. ContentKid’s founder, Michael Aumack, came up with the idea…
Small business Book
All small business owners and entrepreneurs understand the hard work, stress and utter joy that come from running your own company. To put it simple: It takes a lot. So how do business leaders navigate through all the ups and downs and somehow find their footing? Many find their way in the pages of a book. There are so many business books out there, but there are a few that…
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The Mid-Continent Public Library announced Buu Gia Nguyen’s Boo Yah! as its Food Truck Rookie of the Year. Boo Yah! competed against six other Kansas city food truckers in MCPL’s 2016 Food Truck Face Off at The Roasterie earlier this month. The food truck serves up Asian fusion dishes, many inspired by Nguyen’s Vietnamese heritage. His food truck Boo Yah! earned the most taste and presentation votes from the more…
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Two Kansas City startups which both aim to solve problems for people in need presented at 1 Million Cups this week at the UMKC Bloch School. Premier Elder Solutions Premier Elder Solutions is a subscription-based mobile website for caregivers of the elderly, terminally ill and permanently disabled. Couple Mark and Susan Tyrrell got the idea several years ago when Mark’s parents fell ill and passed within nine months of each…