We added a new pod of desks, and we made them in the Maker Labs. Over the past few months, we’ve added a lot of new members, so we needed create some more space.
Our hotseats are the easiest and most affordable membership level we offer on a month-to-month basis. But what are they? Hotseats are open-area workstations that are available to members and day pass users on a first-come, first-served basis. They don’t have permanent owners and cannot be formally reserved.
Longtime Groover Labs member and Flint Hills Group founder Dave Cunningham launched the Whiskey Shelf app at the beginning of 2023. In February, the app went live on the App Store and Google Play. Read the latest updates about what Dave and his team are up to, how they came up with Whiskey Shelf (including experience with Campfire), and more!
We are thrilled to receive funding from the Building a Stronger Economy (BASE) 2.0 economic development grant for our CyberLink Infrastructure Expansion Project. BASE funds are intended to address infrastructure and economic development needs, and our grant award will allow us to continue critical projects we had to cancel or delay because of the Covid-19 global pandemic.
The June 19, 2023 edition of the Wichita Business Journal featured several components of Wichita’s growing startup ecosystem. One section covered “People You Should Know in Wichita’s Startup Scene” and listed our co-founders, Curt Gridley and Tracy Hoover.
1 Million Cups is officially operating on its summer schedule, which includes taking a break for a few Wednesdays in a row, and hosting a presentation at another location. Click the post to view the summer schuedule.
We are thrilled to receive funding from the Building a Stronger Economy (BASE) 2.0 economic development grant for our CyberLink Infrastructure Expansion Project. BASE funds are intended to address infrastructure and economic development needs, and our grant award will allow us to continue critical projects we had to cancel or delay because of the Covid-19 global pandemic.
Member Francis Baalmann began his career as an attorney. Now, he’s a real estate property manager, short-term rental owner, and entrepreneur.
Groover Labs member InfoFluency is launching a new Revenue Management Tool. We sat down with Alyssa McGuinn, managing director of business development, to discuss the tool and the reasons they decided to build it.
Dave Cunningham, founder and CEO of Flint Hills Group and Groover Labs early adopter, has spent the past several months with his team building a new mobile app for whiskey lovers. Dave, a whiskey enthusiast himself, drew inspiration for the app while leading Campfire, a 12-week startup course taught at Groover Labs.
Longtime Groover Labs member Deborah Gladney, founder and CEO of WorkTorch, the only career discovery platform for the service economy, testified before the House Finance Subcommittee on Capital Markets on Wednesday, February 8. The subcommittee is a part of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee.
Groover Labs was recently featured on KSN for a weekly segment titled, “Here for You Spotlight.” Reporter Julia Thatcher toured Groover Labs with co-founder Tracy Hoover to learn more about our mission. She then spoke with Ingrid Green, executive director of Drones4Girls, a program that teaches kids to build, code, and fly mini-drones.
Ethan Franks started coming to devICT’s Thursday morning Code & Coffee events last year to network with software developers in the area. He’d been working in construction when the Covid-19 global pandemic hit, and he decided to change careers. Ethan enrolled in code boot camp and was a regular fixture in the hotseat area. He recently landed a job as a mobile app developer. We sat down with him to talk about his journey.
Happy New Year! We hope you had a wonderful holiday break. We did, and we’re glad to be back at work. Speaking of work, we’ve had a busy couple of weeks. Of interest to us: the number of calls and reservations we’ve had for our event venue. We’ve booked events with little-to-no warning and events that reach out all the way to October 2023.
