Great Minds Think Big: Tickets Now Available!

Tickets for Kansas City’s most intimate entrepreneur event are now available!

Join us for Great Minds Think Big featuring Danny O’Neill, President & Owner of The Roasterie and Scott Tibbitts, successful aerospace entrepreneur on Wednesday, April 3, 2013 from 4:00-6:30pmat 1800 Baltimore Kansas City, MO 64108 (6th floor). 

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At Great Minds Think Big, two innovative thought leaders with completely different backgrounds will come together to challenge one another’s thought processes and provide insight, inspiration and encouragement to entrepreneurs and startups.   

Plus 20% of all proceeds will be donated to a Kiva project!  

Join us for:

• High-level networking
• An intimate fireside chat with successful entrepreneurs
• In-depth question & answer sessions
• Cocktails and appetizers 

We hope to see you there!

Great Minds Think Big: KC's Most Intimate Entrepreneur Event

What happens when two great minds from two completely different industries think big together?  Great Minds Think Big (GMTB) is looking to answer that very question.

Hosted by Think Big Partners, Great Minds Think Big is a fireside chat event series that brings together two innovative thought leaders with completely different backgrounds to challenge one another’s thought processes and provide insight, inspiration and encouragement to local entrepreneurs and startups.  

The first Great Minds Think Big event will feature Danny O’Neill, President and Owner of The Roasterie as well as Scott Tibbits, successful aerospace entrepreneur.  GMTB will bring these two well-known entrepreneurs together in order to spark creativity, explore differences, answer intimate entrepreneurial questions and discover what happens when two great minds meet for the first time and think big.

The first Great Minds Think Big agenda is as follows:

4:00-4:15pm – Networking
4:15-5:00pm – Herb Sih of Think Big Partners moderates Great Minds Think Big fireside chat
5:00-5:30pm – Q&A from audience
5:30-6:30pm – Cocktail party and appetizers

Great Minds Think Big will take place on Wednesday, April 3, 2013 from 4:00-6:30pm at 1800 Baltimore (6th floor) in Kansas City, Missouri.

REGISTER HERE starting March 6, 2013.

Register to attend Great Minds Think Big by visiting gmtb.eventbrite.com.  Individual tickets are $35.00 and a pair of tickets is $50.00.  Only a limited number of tickets are available and the event is expected to sell out.  20% of all proceeds will be donated to an entrepreneurial project on Kiva.com.

To become a speaker at a future Great Minds Think Big event, please contact Emily Leeper at emily.leeper@thinkbigpartners.com.  

Get more event updates from me on Twitter! @AllisonThinkBig

Mix It Up on Mixergy.com

We love mixing and mingling with other entrepreneurs.  That's why we have bizperc (our coworking space), networking opportunities (like launch parties and lunches), and the Think Big Kansas City Conference.  We are all about meeting other entrepreneurs, interacting with different startups and growing our rolodex of contacts.

It seems as if Mixergy has the same idea.

Mixergy is an online platform that allows members to interact with other entrepreneurs, take online courses, tune into videos, and hear stories from some of the best and brightest in the startup tech industry (like the founders of Groupon, Y Combinator, Wikipedia, Kiva and more!). 

The Mixergy mission is to introduce its members to doers and thinkers whose ideas and stories are so powerful that hearing them will ignite a spark...and perhaps even a change.  With Mixergy, members have access to a wide variety of courses, like Advanced Lead Generation, Mobile App Design, Customer Targeting, Blogging for Business and much more.

If you're interested in an online entrepreneurial community, I encourage you to check out Mixergy.com and see what benefits it can offer you and your business!  Happy surfing!
Written by Allison Way
@AllisonThinkBig

Apple iPads, Nikon Digital Cameras, and Diamond Earrings-- But One Gift Stands Out More Than the Rest on Oprah's Ultimate Favorite Things 2010

Imagine winning an Apple iPad, a Royal Caribbean cruise, five years of Netflix, diamond earrings,  a Nikon digital camera, and a brand new 2012 Volkswagon Beetle all in one sitting.  If it sounds too good to be true, it’s actually not.  These were just a few of the items on Oprah’s Ultimate Favorite Things 2010 which truly became the “Ultimate” holiday giveaway as the audience left the studio with thousands of dollars worth of free merchandise, perks, and incredible gifts. 

Oprah knows what the season for giving is all about.  And with Thanksgiving around the corner, and Christmas not too far after, it is important to keep in mind the important things in life—and most of these things are not 2011 Volkswagon Beetles and a cruise for the whole family.  Oprah knows that giving back this holiday season does not necessarily mean giving away a bunch of free gifts—but giving away a gift that can change lives.

Among the shrieks of every stay-at-home mom, the tears of joy of every person in the audience, and the jumping up-and-down of every prize winner, there was a gift from Oprah that mattered most of all.  This year, one of Oprah’s Favorite Things 2010 was Kiva, a company that “gives loans to change lives.”

Check out Groupon.com/Kiva to give back to the
entrepreneurial community this season!

Kiva is a company that empowers individuals to lend money to entrepreneurs across the globe.  By combining microfinance with online opportunities, Kiva has created a global community of people connected through online lending.  Kiva’s focus on partnership relationships, accountability through loans rather than donations, and transparency through the free flow of communication make Kiva an aspiring entrepreneur’s dream capital-raising resource.  

Oprah honored Kiva for their outstanding work in supporting those entrepreneurs who aspire to build their own communities by including the company on the list of Oprah’s Ultimate Favorite Things 2010.  In addition, Oprah helped Kiva to launch an exciting new deal.  This weekend, new Kiva users can visit Groupon.com/Kiva to buy $25 of Kiva credit for only $15.  This way, anybody can help lend money to those entrepreneurs who are striving for their dreams this holiday season. 

Check out Groupon.com/Kiva or Kiva.org to learn more about this deal and to lend your money to those aspiring entrepreneurs who continue to Think Big and strive to build a better tomorrow.

Written by Allison Way.  Allison is a writer and videographer for Think Big Partners and bizperc, two of Kansas City's newest entrepreneurial resources.  To read more of Allison's work, check out the Kansas City Entrepreneurship Examiner.