Think Big Partners, a Kansas City-based business incubator and early-stage startup accelerator, has announced the formation of a business plan competition in anticipation of the launch of Google's ultra high-speed broadband network in the Kansas City area.

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Think Big Partners, a Kansas City-based business incubator and early-stage startup accelerator, has announced the formation of a business plan competition in anticipation of the launch of Google's ultra high-speed broadband network in the Kansas City area. The business plan competition, called The Gigabit Challenge, will be open to entrepreneurs and innovators from across the globe. Interested businesses, entrepreneurs and innovators are invited to participate in the competition with the goal of establishing new companies that will fulfill Google's mission of developing new applications that will expand human welfare.

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Think Big Partners is hosting a business plan competition to coincide closely with Google Fiber's arrival in Kansas City. Screenshots from google.com and thinkbigpartners.com.

Think Big Partners, a Kansas City, Mo.-based business incubator and startup accelerator, announced this morning that it will host the Gigabit Challenge, a business plan competition to piggyback on the arrival of Google's ultra high-speed broadband network in Kansas City. The competition, which according to a release from Think Big Partners aims to establish new companies that will fulfill Google's mission of developing new applications to expand human welfare, is open to entrepreneurs and innovators from across the globe.

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Two years ago, the Chicago startup/entrepreneur scene looked nothing like it does today.

Excelerate Labs, a local startup incubator, is currently in their second summer class of startups. Resources like the Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center, TiE Midwest, and SCORE Chicago provide tools and advice founders need to get their ideas off the ground.

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At a press conference yesterday, Google announced that it was expanding its 1Gbps fiber-to-the-home testbed network. No longer limited to the citizens of Kansas City, Kansas, the company now plans to include Kansas City, Missouri—the 450,000-person city directly across the Kansas and Missouri River confluence that divides the states.

Kansas City, Missouri mayor Sly James was certainly pleased, and was on hand to make a shockingly hyperbolic statement: "As a result of this announcement, we have become the most attractive city on the planet to entrepreneurs."

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