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Own it! The good, the bad and the ugly every entrepreneur needs to know

Serial entrepreneur hopes to cultivate ‘real talk’ with startups at day-long Own It event

Business often isn’t pretty, said serial entrepreneur Mike Wrenn. And it’s time to expose some of the hard truths he and his wife, Becky Cole — as well as other business heavyweights — have learned through their careers, he said. “Becky and I have built a successful business with national and international reach,” said Wrenn, chairman…

Ami Freeberg, Longfellow Farm

Longfellow Farm coworking the soil amid KC’s urban food desert

In a city ripe with coworking office spaces, there’s a hunger for similar environments outdoors, Ami Freeberg said. As with maintaining individual workplaces, traditional urban farming also can be isolating and expensive, the Longfellow Farm manager said. By working together, however, the collaborative process allows for shared resources, greater human expertise and, of course, more…