Kansas City’s Brown Button Estate Sales has launched a sister company to market and sell high-end items to national and international bidders. Circle Auction will handle fine art and sculpture, designer fashion, jewelry, exceptional antiques and modern design items. Auctions will reach users worldwide through LiveAuctioneers.com and Invaluable.com; Circle Auction also uses a proprietary bidding system through its app, which can be accessed at CircleAuction.co or through Apple and Android…

AltCap and the Women’s Business Center are partnering to offer a workshop on small business tax planning. The workshop, part of the Grow Your Business series, will take place from 5:30-7 p.m. Aug. 8 at Plexpod Westport Commons, 300 E. 39th St., Kansas City, Mo. Cost is $10. William Schmidt, clinic director of Kansas Legal Services Inc., will teach the class. It will touch on the basics of complying with…

The Economic Development Corp. of Kansas City announced five initiatives that it has defined as main areas of focus during the course of the next months. The five initiatives mirror EDCKC’s core objectives of redevelopment, business development and workforce development. Blue River Valley Industrial Corridor Redevelopment EDCKC will continue its efforts from last year to revitalize the Blue River Valley Industrial Corridor. In a news release, the EDCKC said it…

Kansas City’s Alight Analytics will host the Midwest’s first and only conference dedicated to marketing analytics in September. The Marketing Analytics Strategy Summit will debut Sept. 20 in Kansas City, featuring talks from leading brand and agency marketers. Speakers from Maui Jim, Hill’s Pet Nutrition, GlynnDevins and other leading organizations will share how they use marketing analytics to discover business opportunities, increase revenue and drive strategy for their organizations. Cost…

Kansas City, Mo., announced six partners for the 2018 Innovation Partnership Program in late July. The program is in its fourth year and provides startups with the opportunity to develop a use case while allowing the city to explore, at no cost, how new technologies could improve city services.   “The Innovation Partnership Program asks the startup community and the city to work together to find sustainable solutions to improve…