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Advice to High-Tech Ventures in Hard Times
Amid the economic chaos, some entrepreneurs see cause for concern. Some see opportunity. Alfred Botchway is chief executive officer of Xenometrics, a biotech company in Stilwell that helps pharmaceutical, chemical and other companies develop technology.
Rhythm in Motion: Traffic System Steers Cars, Engineering Firm to Open Road
Reggie Chandra was well-versed in the conventional wisdom of traffic light technology. A traffic engineer since 1993, he knew the technology had fallen decades behind, yielding crowded thoroughfares, smog, and wasted time and fuel. He also knew traffic engineers alone didn’t have the answers.
Angel Investors Collaborate on Funding
A local group of angel investors has led an effort to raise $1.5 million for a Salina-based developer of technology for the auto collision repair industry. Midwest Venture Alliance was the lead investor on the fundraising project for Matrix, which has invented an electronic measuring system called the Matrix Wand. What's different about this deal is that the investment involved the collaboration of several private-sector angel groups in the state.
Winfield Entrepreneur Goes Back to Class
Even though Todd Gentry has a track record as a successful entrepreneur, he's back in the classroom. Gentry, 40, is one of nine Kansans who make up the second class of "innovators" for the Kansas Technology Corp.' s Pipeline (Promoting Innovation, Providing Education & Leadership, Investing in New Entrepreneurs) program.
Pipeline Fellowship Program Seeks Entrepreneurs
With Companies Such as OsteoGeneX, KC Aims to be a Backbone for Biotech
This is a story of a scientist and a spine surgeon who teamed up to pursue a big idea. Debra Ellies, the scientist, and Bill Rosenberg, the surgeon, now run OsteoGeneX Inc., a small Kansas City area biotechnology company. It still is very much a startup venture, so success cannot be presumed a sure bet. The young business is buffeted nearly every day by the need to refine or prove its science, raise money to keep going and tackle one more item on the seemingly endless to-do list of an entrepreneur. Yet OsteoGeneX is gaining momentum.
High-tech entrepreneurs promise to bring a much-needed boost to the regional economy, but they often can use a hand getting their businesses started. The Lawrence Regional Technology Center specializes in offering these startups a place to work, business advice and, most important, hands-on help, said Matthew McClorey, president and chief executive officer.
Investment Group Has Eyes on County
Winfield entrepreneur Todd Gentry pitched a line of self-heating or self-cooling sports stadium seating products to 15 Cowley County bankers and businessmen at a luncheon meeting Thursday at a Strother Field hangar. The group included five bankers and business people from Arkansas City.
Pipeline Program Creates Business Leaders
Twenty years ago, Kansas leaders had the foresight to create the Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation to promote the development of technology industries in Kansas. Since then, KTEC's private-sector leadership model has adapted its programs to the ever-changing needs of high-growth technology companies and the entrepreneurs leading them.
Analysis documents higher city population, household income than census data
2008 KTEC PIPELINE Innovator Dan Melton, npT Labs LLC, was the project leader – working technical aspects of compiling the data – for a new study showing Kansas City’s population and household income are significantly higher than the U.S. Census Bureau has recognized. The study could eventually result in additional federal and state funding to the area. State roadway dollars and some federal aid are based in part on population estimates.
Start it Up - Ingram’s Salutes Eight Start-Up Businesses Worth Watching
2008 KTEC PIPELINE Innovator Dr. Reggie Chandra, Professional Engineering Corporation and Charter Class Innovator Dr. Debra Ellies, Osteogenex, Inc. were both recognized in the June 2008 issue of Ingram’s Magazine as start-up businesses worth watching.
West Coast Venture Capitalist to Present at Wichita Event
Sid Mohasseb, president of Tech Coast Angels and managing director of Venture Farm, will be the featured presenter at Kansas Technology Enterprise Corp.' s PIPELINE Primer in Wichita next month.
Another Kansas-based program is working with entrepreneurs who one day could lead businesses achieving such multibillion-dollar success. The Kansas Technology Enterprise Corp. now is working with its second class of entrepreneurial fellows participating in the yearlong Pipeline program. The high-tech business development agency has a new program that could help dozens of additional entrepreneurs.
Entrepreneur Training Gets Expanded Scope
Kansas Technology Enterprise Corp. is expanding its 2-year-old program that grooms promising entrepreneurs. KTEC has started PIPELINE Primer, which takes the formal training classes PIPELINE offers to its innovators each year and compresses them into a two-day event. The first primer will be June 25-26 in Kansas City, followed by one in Wichita July 14-15.
Kansas hopes to boost high-tech entrepreneurs
Kansas aims to give its most promising high-tech entrepreneurs more reasons to keep their companies here. “It all comes down to people,” said Tracy Taylor, president and chief executive officer of the Kansas Technology Enterprise Corp. “If you don’t have the people, if you don’t have the leaders, it’s not going to work.”
KTEC names Koper Innovator of the Year
Olga Koper of NanoScale Corp. in Manhattan was named Thursday night as the winner of the Kansas Technology Enterprise Corp.' s Innovator of the Year competition. Koper is one of 10 entrepreneurs who participated in KTEC's inaugural Promoting Innovation, Providing Education & Leadership, Investing in New Entrepreneurs class.
KTEC Pipeline forms 2008 Innovator class
The Kansas Technology Enterprise Corp. announced members of its 2008 Innovator class Thursday in Topeka. Members are considered high-potential technology and bioscience entrepreneurs from across the state.
One year later, business plan in the pipeline
Joey Blue has learned a lot in a year. So much so that the Wichitan -- one of 10 Kansas entrepreneurs named last year to Kansas Technology Enterprise Corp.' s inaugural PIPELINE class -- has changed his business idea.The former Wichita State University baseball player entered the program last January planning to start a social networking Web site for student athletes, their families and coaches.
KTEC picks six area entrepreneurs for program
Six high-potential technology and bioscience entrepreneurs from the Kansas City area are among nine selected as the second class of the Kansas Technology Enterprise Corp.'s Pipeline fellowship program, KTEC said Thursday.
PIPELINE is an acronym for Promoting Innovation, Providing Education & Leadership, Investing in New Entrepreneurs.
Debra Ellies was raised in Canada and earned a doctorate in London. But Ellies' quest to commercialize treatments for osteoporosis and other bone disorders won't take place in those places or some biotech hotbed on the East or West coast.
Program helps mentor those in technology startups.
Pipeline to success: KTEC's new program hopes to nurture technology, life sciences startups
Venture capitalists and angel investors weren't the only ones evaluating the 30 companies that participated in the InvestMidwest Venture Capital Forum on April 11.
Pipeline to success: KTEC's new program hopes to nurture technology, life sciences startups
A recent breakfast meeting marked a turning point in the relationship of two Kansas City entrepreneurs. The meal was quick. Tim Donnelly, president and founder of Leawood-based SoftVu LLC, and Scott Coons, CEO of Shawnee-based Perceptive Software, are busy men.
KTEC program will keep entrepreneur pipeline full
Kansas Technology Enterprise Corp. has kicked off a program to cultivate business startup activity, and almost half of the entrepreneurs involved are from the Kansas City area.
Mentors named for KTEC program
The KTEC PIPELINE announced the 10 mentors who will work with the 10 "Innovators" during the first year of Kansas' cutting-edge technology entrepreneurial fellowship program.
KTEC picks first class for mentorship program
Six Kansas City technology entrepreneurs will volunteer as mentors for the inaugural class of a state-financed program to cultivate new business startup activity.
Lawrence mentors join KTEC Pipeline
Two Lawrence businessmen have signed on to serve as mentors for up-and-coming innovators selected for special training and support through the Kansas Technology Enterprise Corp.
Have We Met? Joni Cobb, KTEC PIPELINE President
Joni Cobb began helping the Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation (KTEC) more than two years ago through her strategic communications consulting business, Cobb Communications LLC. While helping KTEC, she came into contact with many talented innovators across the state.
A pipeline for innovators - new KTEC program to help bring ideas to market
Three entrepreneurs from Lawrence are among 10 innovators chosen to take part in a new training program designed to help turn their ideas into solid business ventures.
Ten Win Consulting, Grants for Innovation
Ten promising Kansas entrepreneurs -- including one Wichitan -- will get something a lot of their predecessors didn't: education, access to venture capitalists and experienced entrepreneurs, and seed money to turn their ideas into new companies or new products.
Becoming Startup Savvy - Promising Tech Innovators Will Be Identified, Taught and Linked
Debra Ellies knows her way as a scientist in a biotechnology lab, but she could use help navigating as chief executive of a startup.
KTEC Picks 10 for Entrepreneur Program
Ten budding Kansas entrepreneurs, including three from Johnson County, have been chosen as the inaugural class of a state-funded program to cultivate new business startup activity.
Wichita Chosen to Host Kansas Day of Innovation
Kansas Technology Enterprise Corp. and Kansas Bioscience Organization have picked Wichita as the site for the Kansas Day of Innovation, which will be Sept. 7 at the Wichita Marriott, 9100 Corporate Hills Drive.
KTEC PIPELINE Names Cobb President
Joni Cobb has been named president of KTEC PIPELINE, KTEC's new technology entrepreneurial fellowship program.
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