Featured Videos
Emmy Award Winning – I Am Pipeline
The film was written, directed and co-edited by Joni. The project was designed to highlight the diverse background and common drive of super entrepreneurs right here in the Midwest – also doing global business. It garnered both a Mid-America Emmy as well as an International Stevie Award for best video of the year (Stevie Awards for Women in Business). The film was made on a limited budget and shot and edited within 4 months.
Our Passion
The first, groundbreaking “feature film” from Pipeline was written, directed and co-edited by Joni Cobb. It features a documentary style story of four entrepreneurs working to move the needle in their respective industries in the Midwest. It demonstrates the diversity, vision and passion of entrepreneurs who we believe they can move mountains. This film served as a vehicle to elevate the awareness of Pipeline, demonstrate the diverse backgrounds and business focus of our entrepreneurs –and inspire others by the tenacity and vision of all four.
Featured Writing
How to Spot a Super Entrepreneur
July 20, 2019
What comes to mind when I say the words Super Entrepreneur? Close your eyes for a moment. Whose face comes to you? Steve Jobs? Maybe Elon Musk or even Sara Blakely? After working directly with entr …
FOE: Family Over Everything
February 10, 2015
FOE. It’s a phrase many of the entrepreneurs I work with use–“Family Over Everything”. Now when they say it, they have a more universal way of defining “family.” They can mean the very close entrepreneurial friends they’ve made, or their teams at …
Featured News
We’re all stuck — together — in Covid limbo
Nov 05, 2020 | bizjournals
Joni Cobb writes that the Webster’s definition of limbo seems pretty spot on: stuck in a state of restraint, confinement, oblivion, transition or uncertainty.
Women Who Lead: It takes brains, heart and nerve
Dec 13, 2019 | Kansas City Business Journal
Writing about leadership is almost as challenging as leading. While there are many valid perspectives from which to draw inspiration, in the end, leadership style is personal and molded from your experience. In my case …
Podcast: Building a network of generous entrepreneurs in the Midwest
September 30, 2019 | Upside
Joni Cobb is the founding President and CEO of Pipeline Entrepreneurs.
Pipeline is a network of high-performing entrepreneurs who call the Midwest home. Their entrepreneurs and experts give generously of their time, talent and capital so that they can build global businesses from wherever they choose…
Climbing mountains in the Midwest? Exiting Pipeline leader eyes next big challenge
Sep 21, 2019 | Startland news
A desire to move mountains is driving Joni Cobb to move on from Pipeline — her family of 13 years.
“I’ve been thinking about it for many years … not because I don’t love what I do. I love what I do [with Pipeline],” said Cobb, president and CEO of the Midwest-based …
Where Investors Are Missing Startup Opportunities in America
January 10, 2018 | Entrepreneur
Venture capitalists and other startup investors regularly jet from coast to coast in search of the next big deal, routinely referring to everything in between as flyover country …
The Pipeline Family: For Cobb, it’s more than a program — it’s a lifestyle
Jan 20, 2017 | Kansas City Business Journal
“Pipeline is way more than a program,” she said. “It kind of becomes a lifestyle for everybody, and the lifestyle is one of excellence, but it’s also one of creativity and support and, most of …
Joni Cobb and Pipeline took ‘a leap of faith’ that’s paying off
Sep 29, 2016 | Startland News
“Then a state-subsidized program, Pipeline would cultivate promising entrepreneurs that would tangentially grow the Sunflower State’s economy with their firms. Extolled as rigorous, the Pipeline sales pitch hit snags with its intensiveness and …
Women Making History | Joni Cobb of Pipeline Entrepreneurs
March 23, 2019 | She Travels Well
Breaking into the business world can be tough. It requires a mix of creativity, tech savvy, and a thing for crunching numbers. For today’s Women Making History …
Pipeline CEO will step down, inspired to seek her next (ad)venture
Dec 7, 2018 | Kansas City Business Journal
For 12 years, Joni Cobb has poured her passion and energy into Pipeline Inc., helping the entrepreneurial fellowship program morph into a regional force. But now …
Power 100 – 2019
April 11, 2019 | Kansas City Business Journal
At the end of 2019, Joni Cobb will step down as CEO of Pipeline Inc., a fellowship for high-performing entrepreneurs. She stays on our Power 100 for two …