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Your city doesn’t have a startup community? Start one!

The Next Web

Here are two great examples: There’s No Place Like Home: Kansas City showed commitment to fostering an entrepreneurial environment by dubbing itself “ America’s Most Entrepreneurial City.” This sent a big message to Kansas City business leaders and outsiders of the importance the city was placing on startup development.

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Key Interviewing Questions To Ask To Identify Leaders

Eric Jacobsen Blog

What youll read is primarily based on what Ive learned from a variety of mentors, co-workers and supervisors over the past 30 years. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). How To Improve Customer Service With The Telephone.

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Do Exit Interviews

Eric Jacobsen Blog

What youll read is primarily based on what Ive learned from a variety of mentors, co-workers and supervisors over the past 30 years. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). So, do an exit interview whenever possible with each departing employee.

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Amazon Pharmacy partners with health plans for discount drugs

The Verge

Amazon Pharmacy is offering a prescription drug discount card to Blue Cross Blue Shield insurance customers in five states, Nworah Ayogu, chief medical officer for Amazon Pharmacy, said in an interview at a health technology conference this week.

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6 No-Cost Ways To Create A Best-Place-To-Work Company

Eric Jacobsen Blog

I had the pleasure of interviewing Leigh Branham over the past few years. Employee Retention Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Kansas City' He''s the author of the popular book called, The 7 Hidden Reasons Employees Leave , and he''s the owner of the Overland Park, KS-based business called Keeping The People.

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TripleBlind secures $24M for a new approach to enterprise-level, privacy-preserving data sharing

TechCrunch

The Kansas City, Missouri startup has closed a round of $24 million, a Series A that it will be using to continue developing its technology and to extend into a wider range of enterprise verticals. Mayo Clinic is not its only strategic backer: Accenture and Okta are two others; other customers include Snowflake.

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HR platform WorkTorch raises $2.2M seed round

TechCrunch

Launched last April, the company says it has a roster of more than 40,000 service industry applicants actively looking for a job, with at least 1,000 interviews scheduled via the platform a month. Based in Kansas, the returning capital helped make the duo two of the few, if any, Black women to raise more than $1 million in the Midwest. “As