Your Business is Wyoming
August, 2010 - Vol 4, Issue 8 |
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Innovative Entrepreneurship Video Contest
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| This is your chance to have fun, be creative, and share a business idea. Each video should highlight a business idea, product, or concept - real or hypothetical - that documents and markets said idea to potential stakeholders such as customers or investors. Enter between July 1 and August 15, 2010. First prize in each age category is a $500 gift certificate to a Wyoming business of your choice! Click here for complete details. |
| Where in WY is This Car Parked? |
| Cheers to last month's winner, EriK Peiper!
He was randomly selected from all correct entries received.
Email your entry of the closest WY city or area where you think this photo was taken:
wyenbiz@uwyo.edu. In the subject line of your email, label as "photo contest." Within your email, please include your name and address in case you are a winner. Email entries by August 13. One winner will be selected from all correct submissions. Monthly prize is a 256 mb flash drive writing pen. This contest will continue for each month of 2010, with a grand prize drawing from all monthly winners. Photo contest details also appears on our Facebook page. |
Entrepreneurs in the Education Market Needed
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| Kauffman Labs for Enterprise Creation, an initiative of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, is looking for up to 20 entrepreneurs to launch high-growth companies in the education market. "Selected candidates for the Kauffman Education Ventures Program will get six months of training and education on running a business, personal coaching to bring their ideas to market, and competitive compensation to focus full time on their ventures," the foundation said. Kauffman Labs will offer two teleconferences for interested applicants to learn more and ask questions, on Aug. 9 and 18. www.kauffmanlabs.org. Click here for details. |
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Meet with Wyoming Entrepreneur in Second Life
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| Second Life, a 3-D virtual world, is now used by universities across the globe for teaching and research. Wyoming Entrepreneur has its own Second Life facility for meeting with clients and teaching classes. Would you like to learn more about Second Life, and/or meet with a consultant "inworld" to ask questions about real life business? Contact us at matkins2@uwyo.edu. To sign up for a free Second Life account go to secondlife.com, where you can download the software, create your avatar, and start exploring. |
Selling on eBay
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eBay has over 1.3 million sellers who make either part-time or full-time income from their auctions. You don't need to have a full-time business to benefit from selling there. Our certified eBay consultant can help you get started selling or catch you up on the basics if you have not sold on eBay for a while. Free, quality, customized consulting is available to any location in Wyoming with an internet connection and a phone. Contact Mark Atkinson to make an appointment or register at www.wyen.biz by clicking on Free Consulting, then carefully read and follow registration instructions. |
Vertical Harvest--Green Grant Winner
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| Green America hosts the green grants contest which is designed to give a boost to the green economy. Vertical Harvest of Jackson Hole -- A 30-foot vertical partially solar-powered greenhouse providing organic fruits and vegetables (and jobs) year-round to Wyoming residents whose growing season is normally less than four months won a finalist prize of $1,000. View a complete list of winners and information about Green America. |
Do You Want To Expand Your Business?
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Join us in Laramie to learn how becoming a HUBZone certified business can help you expand!
Wednesday, August 4, 2010, at the Albany County Library, 310 South 8th Street, Laramie, from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM. Call Natasha Stahla 866-253-3300 or email nstahla1@uwyo.edu to register for this free workshop. |
1-2-3 Webinar Series Free Money: Fact or Fiction!
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| Join us online, Thursday, August 5 from 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM. Bob Auflick, Wyoming Deputy District Director of the U.S. Small Business Administration and Richard Hawley, Projects/Grants Coordinator for U.S. Senator Mike Enzi will discuss grants available to small businesses and how to access those dollars. Click here to register. |
Advertising for Entrepreneurs
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Wednesday, August 18 from 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Teton County Library
Learn new ways to reach potential customers in the Teton Valley market from a panel of advertising experts. Register at the door or visit our website. For more information about the workshop contact Ted Ladd. |
Bidding and Estimating: Utilizing Construction Calculators
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Monday, August 30
8:00 AM-5:00 PM
Wind River Development Fund, 3 Ethete Rd, Ft Washakie, WY
Instructed by: Ed Murray, Consultant
Pre-Registration Required. Contact Margie Rowell, Small Business Development Center, (307) 857-1174. Cost: $35 - construction calculator and lunch included. Pre-register before August 25. Space is limited. |
Federal Government Contract Accounting and Record Keeping
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Date: August 31 from 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Days Inn, Hot Springs State Park, Thermopolis
Small Businesses that support Federal programs/contracts are subject to a wide range of unique accounting regulations and requirements. Small government contractors must understand the accounting principles and standards pertaining to negotiation, performance, and termination. No registration fee. For more information on this training, contact Deb Farris, Business Development Specialist 307-261-6510 or debra.farris@sba.gov or visit www.pbsisbtraining.com. |
Wyoming Business Leadership Institute
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| The Wyoming Business Council and the University of Wyoming College of Business are offering their popular Wyoming Business Leadership Institute again, Sept. 14-16 in Laramie. The Institute is taught by UW professors and is designed to improve executives' leadership skills while giving them the knowledge they need to strengthen their companies. For more information, visit www.wyomingbusinessinstitute.com or call 307-777-6589. |
| Words of Business |
| The HUBZone Program stimulates economic development and creates jobs in urban and rural communities by providing Federal contracting preferences to small businesses. These preferences go to small businesses that obtain HUBZone certification in part by employing staff who live in a HUBZone. The company must also maintain a "principal office" in one of these specially designated areas. Definition from U.S. Small Business Administration. |
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Wyoming Entrepreneur Network
Wyoming Small Business Development Center is funded in part through a Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration, the Wyoming Business Council and the University of Wyoming. |
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