We couldn’t be more proud of Dentonite, Aaron Powell, founder of Bunch Bikes, for everything he’s accomplished with Bunch Bikes and sharing the joy of family biking with North America! In this article, Aaron talks about how we prepared to pitch on Shark Tank and give some tips to the nervous pitch-er!
Since 2020, each fall, Stoke and TWU team up to offer several women-owned businesses the opportunity to focus on developing their businesses through a five-month incubator program that provides hands-on workshops, resources, mentorship, and more. Weekly workshops are purposefully ordered so that each member of the cohort has a solid starting point in the program and can make specific goals for their personal and professional outcomes from the onset.
I had a thought while typing the same email that I’d typed out to five other people for my food and culture business, Good and Golden. “I should turn this into a template. I need to choose a CRM (client relations management system).”
Had I not been part of the streamlining systems process at Stoke, I definitely would not have thought that (I’d had zero ideas of what a CRM was before then). Sometimes MailChimp will work for emails, and sometimes you need something more robust, like Nutshell, which is my preferred client relations management system.
An appetite for learning and an understanding that the business world is always evolving is essential for success as an entrepreneur. With the way the last few years have gone, it’s more important than ever to seek out opportunities for growth and stay up to date with the latest small business news. Here are five reasons you should continue learning as a small business owner.
Rob Curran is the kind of person who has never met a stranger. If you’re fortunate enough to be in the Stoke coworking space at the same time that he is, you’re going to have a good day. You might even walk over to La Estrella and get some amazing tacos and chat over lunch. That’s the kind of vibe we super appreciate here at Stoke, so when Rob is away for the summer, we all shed a collective tear and can’t wait for him to return in the fall to regale us with tales of his adventures, make us all laugh until we cry, and perhaps sing us a little ditty.
Learn more about what Rob does (he writes!) and about him in his own words.
“During her career at Dell and HP, Holly Michael won many awards. She was recognized as a top performer and identified as key talent countless times. But, the award she values the most was being recognized as a Volunteer of Distinction at Dell. This is an international award that highlights the top 20 volunteers each year at Dell.”
Radha Patel is based out of Dallas, TX and has been married for 12 years with 2 kids and a dog. She founded a personalized matchmaking company for South Asian singles in the US solely on the idea that she wanted to keep parents out of the process but quickly realized they are often the driving force behind timing & choice.
As part of Stoke’s mission to cultivate community and empower entrepreneurs, Stoke participates in Global Entrepreneurship Week each year in the fall, planning and hosting events for Denton’s creatives, makers, small business owners, techies, and entrepreneurs. Community members interested in learning more about business-related topics like branding or tools for efficiency and productivity can attend free events to gain insight for their endeavors, plus connect with other Dentonites.
Denton has an amazing, diverse community of entrepreneurs, and many of them are creative startups, art entrepreneurs, and small business owners working in interesting, enriching, and creative-at-its-core fields.
Take a look behind the scenes and take part in live demonstrations, make-and-take activities, and refreshments at the various stops on the Denton Startup Crawl this year! You'll learn how you can support and get involved with Denton's creative community at the stops as well. Stay safe, mask up, and distance, and enjoy the fall weather in North Texas while exploring the creative startup spaces in town.
Denton has a unique mix of entrepreneurs: those who are the founders of scale-able, high-growth startups, seeking employees every so often to meet the needs of their growing company; and those who are business owners who nurture and sustain small businesses that contribute to the richness of the town and fulfill needs in the community. Stoke is here to empower and support them.
FlintConf 2021 (virtual) invites techies, creatives, entrepreneurs, and those in-between or all of the above, to take control of their professional projects by participating in interactive, workshop-style sessions.
Speakers will guide you to apply their expertise and insights to your own endeavors with materials in the FC Playbook, an activity, worksheet, and resource-filled exercise book compiled with contributions from speakers by Playable Media and designed by Stoke to help you make the most of your conference experience, before, during, and beyond.
You probably spend the majority of your waking day at work, which means your environment affects not only the quality of your work, but also the quality of your life outside of it. The key to a healthy workstyle is changing postures throughout the day, and not sitting or standing for hours on end. You shouldn’t have to feel pain or discomfort to remind you to shift postures or to take a break from what you’re working on, but that’s often the case for people working in traditional offices. [Read on!]
