OfficePort KC presents InnovationThursday @OfficePort KC, a get-together every 3rd Thursday of the month from 6 to 8pm where entrepreneurs, developers and new media types can connect over a beer. This event is all about supporting innovation and entrepreneurship, so come out to tell your story and learn what others are doing to push the envelope! Each month we will have a guest speaker that will present or moderate a discussion of his/her choice.
This Month, Teng-Kee Tan, PhD, Dean and Harzfeld Professor of Technology Entrepreneurship at UMKC’s Block school will be talking and moderating a discussion about Innovation with Purpose. Dean Tan is a world-renowned academic that is turning the Bloch School into one of the nation’s top programs in Entrepreneurship.
Don’t miss this one!!! Limited seating, RSVP via facebook required, limit 50 people.
For your Twitter fiends, follow the conversation with @officeport.
OP featured in Chicago Now
Posted by jase on 8-13-2010
An article by Lira Luis for Chicago Now.
“The birth of OfficePort KC became a positive new business that was a direct result of what seems to be a negative business scenario. “There (in Kansas City) we had a company that ran out of business. So we had a whole building that became vacant all at once. We also had the entire furniture along with it,” says Michael Edmondson, Co-founder of OfficePort and a realtor. An empty space, existing office furniture, and dynamic open office design and layout became the recipe for a co-working environment catering to entrepreneurs. “We are entrepreneurs ourselves. We want to keep the prices low and keep the business transaction as simple as possible,” says Michael, who understands the direct needs of start-up companies, small businesses, independent contractors, or freelances when it comes to overhead and the costs of running a business.”
Full article: http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/arch-x-perience/2010/08/co-working-the-new-office-cube.html