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We started our company in 2009, right after the massive crash of 2008, which taught me a great deal. For one: run lean. I saw dozens of businesses go under, mainly due to aggressive expansion and overextending themselves. Now, we’re tightening our belt and running lean again, as everything unfolds. We want to make only critical purchases and rely on cash, not credit.
When you get up close and personal with Ryan Denny, owner of Trash Transporter, you have an immediate sense of old-fashioned courtliness peppered with boy-next-door familiarity and “aw-shucks” chuckles (the best combination of city slicker meets cowboy). Ryan radiates decency, and it’s no surprise that his company, Trash Transporter, is enjoying a 25% growth year after year. Neither is it a surprise that his man-on-the-street marketing style is a stealth weapon that performs.
First, the coronavirus rocked the financial markets. Then, oil prices dropped more than 20 percent after a breakdown in OPEC production discussions. Not surprisingly, the markets took another nosedive. Yet, despite these events, this recent market volatility may well be attributed more to fear than the forces that usually drive the markets.
We are living in a strange time. Every time I turn on the radio, open FaceBook, click on the news app on my phone… the first thing I hear is about the coronavirus.
Suddenly, everything has to do with the effects of this virus which no human has ever encountered before.
Here at Vibe, the health and safety of our members is our top priority—today and every day. Like you, we are monitoring the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak closely. We are using updates from the Kitsap Public Health District and the US Center for Disease Control (CDC)’s interim guidance to businesses for preventing workplace exposures and illness from Coronavirus to implement a number of precautionary measures that support continued health and wellness, while also supporting emergency business continuity and contingency planning that may include an expansion of remote work policies.
Just a few short weeks have gone by since the curtains went down on Kitsap’s very first TEDx event, led not by the adults, but by the youth of our community. As the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art auditorium cleared that afternoon, 90+ people lucky enough to attend in person left feeling inspired, hopeful and full of ideas worth spreading across their schools, workplaces, places of worship, sports teams and more.
From social media and digital marketing strategy to conversational design and app development, Ferdinand Mehlinger of Bluoo Digital is a versatile leadership consultant with a glint in his eye, a ready smile, and some serious glow factor. The man simply vibrates and lights up when talking shop.
Home is a concept that is both universal and deeply personal. Different things make people feel at home.
The talent factor of Aljolynn Sperber is something to wrap your head around. This vibrant entrepreneur, about to launch Lady Box, her boldest venture yet, has expertise in everything from influencer marketing, SEO strategy, and crisis communications to public speaking and talent management.
What do Chinese New Year and coworking have in common? Possibly nothing. Possibly a whole hell of a lot.
Genteel and merry-eyed, with a princely yet professorial demeanor that speaks to his Russian roots, George Sudarkoff radiates story, and speaks softly as he tells it. Except when the conversation turns to Boatzilla, the business he’s been working on at Vibe Coworks through the last 6 Month Startup Kitsap cohort.