Applications being accepted for Blueprint Green Bay accelerator program
GREATER GREEN BAY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
NEW NORTH -- Applications are now OPEN to take part in our spring 2022 Market Validation cohort. If you know any entrepreneurs of color, female or veteran-owned business in the Greater Green Bay region, please connect them to us! Market Validation will focus on helping entrepreneurs develop the skills and knowledge necessary to find product market fit, grow a company and raise outside capital. Furthermore, they will receive an opportunity to secure seed funding at the culmination of programming
They can learn more and apply HERE.
Applications for the Blueprint Green Bay's second cohort to OFFICIALLY close on Friday, January 28th... Local artist and UW-Green Bay alumnus Beau Thomas has work featured on Sunday Night Football
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Inspired one night, using rollers and spray paint, Thomas said the tribute took him about eight hours to complete, adding, “I think I painted it last April, right before all of the drama started. So I kinda felt like I jinxed things with this, but luckily Aaron stuck around and it’s been a great year so far and this is kind of my way to say thank you to him and celebrate one of our heroes of the area.”...
Drinking with a purpose: Two Appleton breweries are raising awareness of Black culture, one beer bottle at a time
APPLETON POST-CRESCENT
APPLETON - Beer has long been a way for people to connect with each other in Wisconsin. Now, pulling up a stool at two local breweries means not only connecting over a cold one, but supporting a cause.
Black is Beautiful, an imperial stout being brewed and sold by McFleshman's and Appleton Beer Factory, got its start following the social uprising in 2020 that swept the country and many parts of the world following the murder of George Floyd and the death of Breonna Taylor.
"It was just an effort to enlighten people — to make people more aware of the whole movement but through a different source," Appleton Beer Factory Head Brewer Ben Fogel said. "That different source is a tasty bottle of beer."...
New restaurant bringing healthy food options to downtown Green Bay
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“We really wanted to bring something to the area that was really fresh, vibrant, and really healthy for everyone in Green Bay,” said co-owner Caleb Suda.
Fresh Kind Kitchen was created with the goal of providing healthy food options in a fast casual setting, something owners noticed was largely missing from Green Bay’s downtown...
Green Bay entrepreneur discovers passion for sign business, like his father before him
GREEN BAY PRESS GAZETTE
GREEN BAY -- Zach Engels of Green Bay hopes that all signs point to success in the new year as he continues to grow his business, Economy Signs.
A graduate of Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Green Bay, Engels learned the machine tool trade and is applying those skills to working full time and starting a business on the side.
“I got into the sign business because my father, before he passed away, owned Sign Edge in Green Bay,” Engels said. “I was only 12 years old when he passed, but I had already been working there with him.”..
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Bright idea: Appleton couple builds solar energy business
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APPLETON -- Entrepreneurship is often born out of challenging economic times, a tight labor market or other kinds of challenges. Appleton Solar, LLC came about through a husband and wife thinking ahead and planning for their family’s future.
Patrick and Ingrid Nahm met while attending Marquette University — Patrick was a mechanical engineering major, and Ingrid was pursuing a health sciences degree.
Several years and three children later, Patrick was working as a mechanical engineer for a Fortune 500 company and life was good — until the 2008 recession hit. Though Patrick didn’t lose his job, the couple wanted to be prepared for anything...
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Resource resurgence: Support abounds for budding entrepreneurs
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GREEN BAY -- Just three years ago, the Greater Green Bay Chamber of Commerce’s decade-long push to accelerate entrepreneurship had stalled. Longtime existing programs were underutilized, and the technology a new generation of entrepreneurs needed simply was not in place.
Led by new chamber Vice President of Economic Development Kelly Armstrong and a fresh team of players, a renaissance of sorts began. Today, the chamber boasts an entrepreneurial portfolio that includes a high-tech incubator filled beyond capacity, a bustling coworking space in downtown Green Bay and a new angel investor network that has already injected six startups with a total of $900,000 in capital...
Get to know: Corey BehnkeINSIGHT PUBLICATIONS
At first glance, it might seem surprising that Corey Behnke, a man who for nearly two decades has helped bring New Year’s Eve in Times Square to a worldwide audience and who served as the streaming architect for the 2020 Democratic National Convention, would choose to expand his New York City-based livestreaming services and production company to Green Bay. For Behnke, the move represented both a homecoming — he was born in Green Bay before moving around the country with his family — and a savvy business play....
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Making memories last: Sturgeon Bay artisan frames treasures
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Door County is a well-established haven for artisans. And after working for a decade with the Artist Guild in Sturgeon Bay, Janine Buechner has taken her talents and launched Blue Moon Framery. From her location in an old bank building in downtown Sturgeon Bay, Buechner uses an actual bank vault to store the works people entrust to her.
“My first love is art,” says Buechner, who has worked in a wide variety of disciplines and specializes in linoleum and wood-block prints...
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