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Title
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Business that began in Basement is Being Sold for $650 Million
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Description
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Article about how Bonnie Kelly and Teresa Walsh built a home-based business, Silpada Designs which sells silver jewelry through home parties, into an enterprise with $230 million a year in revenues. Avon Products announced on July 12, 2010, their plans to purchase Silpada. The Lenexa-based company is a great entrepreneurial success story.
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2010-07-13
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Mr. Tough Guy
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Description
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Profile of Ken Welsh, former publisher of "KC Magazine" and owner of Midwest Triathlon Coaching (MTC). Welsh discusses how he turned his passion for triathlons into a profitable business. MTC is a one-man operation dedicated to helping clients prepare for triathlons.
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Date
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2009-09
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Deal of a Lifetime
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Description
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Article reports the acquisition of Fishnet Security, a Kansas City-based information security business, by Lake Capital of Chicago, Illinois. FishNet was founded in the mid-1990s by "serial entrepreneur" Gary Fish, who evolved the business from a small one-man operation to a large computer security company. Fish has since started two new companies: Secure Passage, a software spinoff of Fishnet, and a real estate group called FishNet LLC.
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Date
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2008-07
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Start-Ups on Silicon Prairie
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Description
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Article on the increasing amount of area technology-based start-up companies. Organizations such as the Kauffman Foundation and the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce encourage and promote entrepreneurs, as do events like One Week KC, which allows entrepreneurs to pitch ideas, refine business plans, and network. The article also provides profiles on 10 local start-up companies.
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Date
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2012-07-31
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Style in Spades
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Description
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Profile of Kansas City native and entrpreneur Kate Spade. Spade's handbag business is now a "globally recognizable brand." Although Spade lives in New York, she frequently cites the influence her home town of Kansas City had on her design work.
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Date
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2010-09
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Innovators Who Inspire
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Description
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Profile of five Kansas City-area entrepreneurs who discuss their path to success. They include Jeri Bartunek (Bartunek Technology Group); Jeff Becker (Arts Incubator of Kansas City); Cason Coplin (EcoFit Lighting LLC); and Neal Sharma (Digital Evolution Group).
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Date
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2009-09
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
