Shelly DeMotte Kramer
Suffice it to say that Shelly DeMotte Kramer has had more than a few professional lives. She’s lived the corporate life, the direct-marketing life, the jewelry-designer life, the single-mom life, the mom-with-adult-children-and-babies- simultaneously life, and the serial- entrepreneur life. Most people will tell you that she’s forgotten more about the Internet and how to use it for good than many of us have ever known. Today’s life? Kramer is running…
Eric Morgenstern, Shanny Morgenstern, Morningstar
They can still recite their resumes from back in the day, but it’s been a lifetime since Eric and Shanny Morgenstern weren’t spouses, parents and business partners all rolled into one. For almost 40 years, they have been the driving magic behind Morningstar Communications. Today, as the two have transitioned the business yet again to meet both their needs and those of their customers, they are also taking time to…
KC Hemp Co.
How do you market a business when traditional advertising methods aren’t an option? If you are Heather Hobbs and Kyle Steppe, owners of KC Hemp Co., you turn to Facebook, Instagram and old-fashioned word-of-mouth to find customers. Hobbs and Steppe have used social media to their best advantage to get the word out about their retail store, which just opened in September. They are also regulars at area chamber of…
Edison Spaces
From looking at his resume, you might think that Matt Druten, cofounder of Edison Spaces, makes for a somewhat unlikely entrepreneur. The Kansas City, Kan., native and University of Kansas graduate spent years working in the financial space, where his employers included Deloitte & Touche, American Century Investments, Atrium Doors & Windows and SPX Cooling Technologies. Those adventures led him from Kansas City to Dallas to Maine to Kansas City…
Brian Gregory
Brian Gregory’s fascination with computers and data goes way back — back to the days when not everyone had a desktop computer, let alone a handheld one. Luckily for his customers, Gregory found his niche at 19, working in communications and building his business, Network Innovations Inc., into one of Kansas City’s successful small businesses. Finding Solutions The Paola native was “always into computers. In fact, in high school they used to…