Author: tanderson

“Basically, we are just awesome.” Jeremy Rusco Jeremy Rusco founded Dynamic Discs in 2005, on a fling and a prayer. In college, he’d started selling golf discs on eBay. After college, he faced a choice. “There was substitute teaching that I knew I could do, or I could go get a real job, or I could keep plugging away at this Dynamic Disc thing that was starting to sell a few more things, but not enough to really justify a full-time income. I decided to substitute teach, and keep the eBay thing, and keep Dynamic Disc going.” “Finally, it...

Michael Crane started Crane Brewing Company after winning eighty medals in craft brewing competition, including two Best of Show awards, despite not being a drinker. “I don’t drink a lot because it doesn’t really take a lot to get me kind of tipsy, but I do like the taste of just about anything, bourbon, every kind of beer I can get my hands on. Small amounts because I don’t like the feeling of the room spinning around.” It Started With a Mr. Beer Kit in December 2009 Michael started home brewing with his sons. It was a hobby that...

The Commissioner for the Kansas City Film Office, Stephanie Scupham, is a passionate advocate for all things Kansas City, on both sides of the state line. Her mission is to increase the economic impact of the film industry in the Kansas City metropolitan region, to provide coordination and leadership on film projects making it easier to facilitate those projects, and to market the Kansas City area as a destination for film, TV, and commercial productions. Stephanie sees her role as Commissioner as an extension of her personal Why. “My personal why is to help people unfold into more and...

Davyeon Ross is an innovative technology leader and widely recognized entrepreneur. He has almost 20 years of experience in the technology sector. He’s the founder and COO of DDSports, a team sports performance platform fueled by wearable and smart equipment data. ShotTracker, DDSports’ first product, is wearable technology that provides comprehensive real time stats to players, coaches and fans in practice and live basketball games. Davyeon founded Digital Sports Ventures in 2010. As CEO, he negotiated the rights to Division 1 college sports video across seven major conferences and set the strategy for the portfolio of content and interactive...