This week’s 1 Million Cups presentation at the Kauffman Foundation featured pitches by the Kansas City Shock women’s soccer team and KNODA, a tech startup with an iPhone app for making predictions on future events.

Shawn Daugherty, CEO of the Shock, the region’s first Women’s Premiere Soccer League team, said that the squad’s debut season in 2013 showed progress both on and off the field.

On the field, the Shock was the only new WPSL program to reach the playoffs, with five players receiving all-conference honors and one player receiving all-league honors. Off the field, the team acquired a capital investor who provided 101 acres of property near Smithville, Mo. The land is to be developed into a soccer complex for the Shock, as well as high school and independent soccer clubs in the Northland.

“There is a plethora of clubs in the Northland that are itching for a place to play,” Daugherty said.

Daugherty said that the Shock’s goals for 2014 include reaching out with greater vigor to soccer fans in the Hispanic community, increasing game ticket sales, growing a larger social media presence and utilizing more local business partnerships.

“We didn’t reach enough people in Kansas City,” he said. “We can do better.”

Next up were KNODA co-founders Kyle Rogers and James Flexman, who want their new iPhone app—soon available in desktop and Android versions—to become the “official record book of predictions.”

“You can literally make a prediction about absolutely anything,” Rogers said of the KNODA app, which also allows users to view a feed of relevant predictions made by others, comment on any prediction and win points for making correct forecasts.

The current top KNODA categories are sports (such as predicting the outcomes of games) and pop culture (such as predicting the outcomes of award shows).

“We want people on five, 10, 15 times a day,” Rogers said. “We want it to be an addiction.”