Think Big Partners Announces New Partners Supporting Early Stage Companies
Large National Partners Like Silicon Valley Bank, H&R Block Small Business and Polsinelli, to Innovative Service Providers Such As Grasshopper, Robin and eBeam Kansas City, MO, – As part of its...
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Royals’ Quest To Take the Crown Unites Kansas City
From the desk of Think Big Co-Founder and Senior Partner, Tyler Prochnow – In the interest of full disclosure, let me start by saying I was not a Kansas City resident for any of the following: The...
View ArticleAn Update on Cisco’s Smart City Effort in Kansas City
A Kansas City Business Journal article gives an update on the progress of Cisco’s Smart City Initiative announced in May 2014. Business accelerator and incubator Think Big Partners, LLC will act as a...
View ArticleWhat Being an Army Helicopter Pilot Taught Me About Being An Entrepreneur
Every Veteran’s Day, I am reminded of the decade I spent in the military and the immeasurable impact it has had on me as an entrepreneur. Beyond the genuine camaraderie, black & white mission...
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Expanding the Frontiers of Innovation
This post is contributed by Ron Singh and Charlie Kelly of Silicon Valley Bank. Why is Silicon Valley Bank in Kansas City? As our name suggests, our roots are planted deep in the Valley. We’ve been...
View ArticleHow the Journey of Data is Transforming Kansas City
The article “How the Journey of Data Can Transform Cities” recently appeared on the official Cisco corporate blog as a guest post by Herb Sih, Managing Partner of Think Big Partners. As a follow up to...
View ArticleThink Big Partners Announces Think Big Foundation
The mission of Think Big Partners has always been about more than money. While we are committed to identifying, nurturing and supporting successful companies in the Midwest and across the country, we...
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Internet of Things That Matter
Over the last twenty years the interest in social entrepreneurship has expanded across the globe. But in the last several years, Millennials have been like rocket fuel to social enterprise creation....
View ArticleThe Kansas City Living Lab, where innovation meets possibility.
Every night, as millions of citizens all across the world sleep, there’s a technology revolution quietly taking place. This revolution is making cities smarter, more efficient and more livable than...
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Teaching IoT to the Next Generation of Leaders, Innovators, Doers and Dreamers
Preparing students and educators to be leaders in emergent technologies Earlier this year, the Kansas City Council approved a $15 million agreement with San Francisco based Cisco Systems Inc., to turn...
View ArticleCity Building in the Age of Cities
We live in the age of cities with the most rapid urban migration in history. It’s creating business opportunities and ideas at unprecedented speed. In 2013, half of the world’s population was living...
View ArticleSTEM pilot fuses tech, computing, data & social good in Lee’s Summit schools
Think Big Foundation and Cisco launched SensED – a project-based STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) education program for middle and high school students – in September with a pilot...
View ArticleKansas City’s Smart City Lab
An innovative Public-Private partnership to develop the Internet of Things and Smart Connected Cities The premise of the Kansas City Living Lab is simple. Where a “problem or challenge” exists, or one...
View ArticleAddressing Today’s World Problems Through Entrepreneurship, Innovation and...
The world today is changing fast. One thing for certain is that technology is moving faster than ever before, but parts of civilization are not keeping up. One of the biggest threats that modern...
View ArticleJohn Penn II, Creator of Photoshop to Deliver Keynote at Smart City Tech Summit
Cameras have become an integral part of our society. They are carried in our pockets and mounted to walls. As a result, crimes are more and more frequently captured in images and recorded on video. In...
View ArticleJust Released: Smart City Tech Summit Sponsored Tickets
Thanks to the generosity of our top Smart City Tech Summit Sponsors, we are proud to announce the release of a limited number of sponsored tickets to the upcoming Public Safety Summit March 29 – 31,...
View ArticleKansas City Selected As “Core Smart City” By IEEE Smart Cities Initiative
Think Big helps Kansas City join exclusive community of five global cities. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has selected Kansas City as the first U.S. city to become a Core...
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“Tesla, are you crazy? You want me to do what?”
As an entrepreneur focused on emerging technology, I am constantly thinking of new innovations to solve problems. I see a lot of amazing technology driven solutions. But even with my continuously,...
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Building the Future of Education, and Our Future Leaders of Emerging Tech
Student IoT Innovation Challenge draws over 200 students to demo 35 sensor-based projects at Think Big On March 3rd, during a special Think Big Thursdays event, the downtown innovation center hosted...
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