Support local entrepreneurs at several local and regional pitch events
NEW NORTH, INC.
NEW NORTH -- Please plan to check out these various local pitch events during Wisconsin Start Up Week, leading to the NEW Launch Alliance pitch event....
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Social media 'saved' this Sheboygan gym. Now, it's focused on building and supporting the community
SHEBOYGAN PRESS
SHEBOYGAN – From dog yoga to kickboxing to Zumba, Rage Fitness, 3321 S. Business Drive, is the “Island of Misfit Toys” for fitness, owner Todd Arnoldi said.
“We want to have enough fitness here that anybody that feels they don't fit in anywhere else has a home,” he said.
Rage Fitness also offers class workouts, fitness classes with dogs, and green turf and black mat equipment.
Ruth Wilsing, who sticks mostly to the Rage Fitness workout classes, switched from a local gym because she said Rage Fitness offers a larger variety of workouts and more class times, has a larger space and is personalized to her abilities...
From a homebrew kit to a 40,000 square-foot facility: A Sheboygan brewery offers more than 50 unique beers and seltzers
THE BUSINESS NEWS
SHEBOYGAN – Chaos Pattern, Fresh Coast, Rebel Kent, Armchair Quarterback and Bon Bo not many would consider those traditional beer names, but 3 Sheeps Brewing Company founder/brewmaster Grant Pauly said the brewery in Sheboygan aims to be unique.
“We’re all trying to aim for that shelf space, have the best beer and best packaging available,” he said. “We want to connect with our customers who have helped us grow – we want to be there for them.”
Pauly said a few years after he started making beer on his own using a homebrew kit, he decided to turn his hobby/passion into a full-time business – and in 2012, 3 Sheeps Brewing was born.
A decade later, 3 Sheeps Brewing is thriving – something Pauly said isn’t by accident....
An a'bundt'ance of cake: Nothing Bundt Cakes aims for Dec. 3 soft opening in Ashwaubenon
THE BUSINESS NEWS
ASHWAUBENON – What started out as a friendship between two Northeast Wisconsin transplants who met through their husbands who worked together, has since transitioned into a partnership in a joint business venture. Marisa George and Jill McGrath are one of the newest entrepreneurs setting up shop in Ashwaubenon – the soon-to-be-open Nothing Bundt Cakes. “We were talking about things we could do,” Marisa said. “We decided we wanted to be involved in the community since neither one of us are from here and wanted to give back. I'm from Texas, so Nothing Bundt Cakes is big in Texas, and I was like hey, ‘what about it?’ So, we looked into it and here we are. I wanted to bring a piece of home here to the Green Bay area.”...
When digital media and female-empowerment collide: A Sheboygan native is putting ladies first with her digital media company
THE BUSINESS NEWS
SHEBOYGAN – Little did Sheboygan native Rayna Rokicki know, the COVID-19 pandemic would bring goodness out of a difficult time, leading her down a career path she said she could have never imagined. Rokicki is the brains behind Ladies First Digital Media, a small business that helps women entrepreneurs with podcasts, YouTube channels and more. She is also the voice behind You Betcha She Did! – a podcast where she said she talks with fellow female entrepreneurs as they pave their own entrepreneurial paths. Though Rokicki said she loves what she does and has always been supportive of empowering women, it wasn’t necessarily something she thought she’d be doing with her life..
NWTC partners with Startup Hub for business pitch competition
NBC 26
GREEN BAY — Northeast Wisconsin Technical College hosted its version of the popular show Shark Tank in partnership with Startup Hub. A total of six small businesses of either current or past students were invited to present their business strategies in front of a panel of judges.
Each contestant had four minutes to convince the judges that their business was worthy of 'investing in'. By investing, they mean winning a prize, of free office space for a year at the startup hub. Competition Organizer Lisa Taylor says this is not the typical pitch competition...
This Sheboygan creativity center is making art classes and materials more accessible. Here's how.
SHEBOYGAN PRESS
SHEBOYGAN - Through traveling to teach art classes and owning several stores before opening Hello Happiness Creativity Center, 1504 New Jersey Ave., Kim Geiser said she consistently saw that creativity was expensive, with some art classes costing more than $100.
“You can't go to a lot of classes if you don't have money,” Geiser, founder and executive creative director of Hello Happiness, said. “... And the people who were going, some had disposable income, but they were having to save for a really long time.”
To help make "creativity for everyone," Hello Happiness offers lower prices for art supplies in its store and classes in its creative space...
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