VISION

    Stephanie McKenzie February 18,2020 Stephanie McKenzie is the CEO of Metro Coffee at University of  Washington, Tacoma. Stephanie is one of the youngest entrepreneur guest speakers visited this quarter. She  started her career at a very young age, where she had confidence that she could handle a business and in case if she messed up, she could start again. She Started working at Metro coffee when she  was 21 years old. Her boss was a really nice person but he was going through some health issues, so he couldn't work much at the coffee shop. He was diagnosed with the illness, so he had to give up on the illness and he wanted her to buy the business. She learned everything about the store and at the age of 24, so she owned the business from his boss. Her mother helped her to own the business financially. Then, she shared how she chooses vendors  for their business. They do go to different retailers and sample their products and choose what will be best for their

                                J ohn Dimmer February 13,2020 John Dimmer is the co founder of Angel Network Tacoma  and also a VIBE mentor at University of Washington. He was the guest speaker in our class which shared a lot  about business plans and how to figure out which business is good for you. He started his lecture with the slide which covers the  financing life cycle and also explained how we start from the idea and following the steps of pre seed funding, Seed Funding, Start-up funding , Expansion/Mezzanine  and operating it. The major questions we ask before a person start a business are : How much money do I need?, when should I raise money? And where do I go to raise money?. He explained how we start from basic thinking and also shows the sources where we can go to figure out our problems. John also discussed some major things we know while entering the business is the critical fundraising  path, where we should be the major shares holder in our company s

Erick Hanberg February 11,2020 Erik Hanberg  is a publisher and co founder of Channel 253, and he worked  for many companies. He worked with the grand Cinema where he had done so many good dramas. While working in cinema, he wrote and directed two award winning short films in Grand cinema’s   72 hours film competition in 2005, when he was the director of the grand. Erik worked on many projects with many companies like the Horatio, Exit133.com, Suit 133 and some others as well. He published his first novel in 2009 and he is still working on more. He had written three novels: The title of Gold, The title of  Likes and The title of Boards. These three novels are to help the leaders small nonprofits with fundraising, social media and board development. Erik also served in Metro Parks Board of Tacoma since 2010 and also served as president of board in 2016. He had written several novels including nonprofit, sc

Shadrach White January 30 ,2020 Shadrach White  founder and CEO of AIRLIFT  software based in Tacoma, Washington and CloudPWR  was surrounded in 2011 in Olympia, Washington. He was the guest speaker for our class and  he was a really inspiring and humble person. This is a software development and cloud services company which has done quality work with government organizations. As, the marijjuna is legal in many different states now, and they are dealing with their all paper documentation and their requirements.They recently have come up with new designed software AIRLIFT, which  is designed around providing secure, fast and accurate service and for the patients of the cannabis. He told us that they deal with many government organizations for the public records. He mentioned some of the emerging markets are Cannabis + Hemp, Public records and Firearms transfers. He also mentioned many of the business skills and many tips that help us to choose the right business. He menti

Mission and Vision Mission statement - ” Providing the best focused learning classes and enhancing every student's academic performance, so they can embrace their life and academic goals.” Vision- This is a small non-profit company where students will get to learn  from different videos the different topics they want to clear their problems. There will be different sections on this website  with different subjects. I am also adding a home tutoring option on a website for the student needs private tutoring. My goal is to help every possible student who has academic problems and can’t reach  their goals. While thinking about this as we all know that in today’s world every single person uses technology to learn, almost every student uses different websites to clear their topics and to solve their homework problems. The focus of this company will not be focusing on all the subjects that student’s learn in school, but will be limited subjects that stu

Matthew E. Tolentino January 30,2020 Matthew E. Tolentino is the CEO and founder of NAMATAD found in 2018. He worked with intel for 15 years as Research Scientist and also worked at U.S Department of Defense (DoD). He is an Assistant professor at the University of Washington Tacoma. After two years of hard work  Dr. Tolentino has a groundbreaking system, SOMASYS, to address the needs of the firefighters and founded Namatad.This device doesn’t require wifi, does not require pre existing building infrastructure, has its own long lasting power source and can operate, with tremendous amount of precision, even in the extreme that come with fire and fire fighting.  This FIREFLY is the name of the device which  dynamically deployed location and environment sensing platform that captures and records data during incident response and enables real-time & post- incident analytics. He also told us how the device works and every fighter has this device on themselves. This beacon d

Brian Forth January 28,2020 Brian Forth , the CEO & Founder of Site crafting and Gear Lab was the guest speaker in the lecture. Site crafting has been a full-service digital  agency since 1998 located in Tacoma,WA. While in the lecture he told us how his journey was from the very beginning of the building his business to the present. He talked about being a teacher in middle school and helping the student parents in creating the websites and how he decided to do this professionally and started his journey. Like everyone, he had lots of ups and down in the business and building a strong team for the company projects. There are different  types of services provided to the clients are Websites, Research and Testing and Digital Marketing. They have more than 40 employees working in the company with different roles and every Friday they all get together in teams where they have discussions and have startup focus pitch, where everyone can explore their ideas. In 2015, Gear