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Entrepreneurial Journey Takes Melvin Brewing To Denver’s Heights and Beyond

The Startup Magazine

As the founder of the company, he has been steadily expanding the company’s reach through the building of new brewpubs and breweries in many Western cities. The brewery has experienced a high level of success in the regional market, with a wide distribution in Wyoming and a satellite brewpub in Bellingham, Washington.

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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

L3Cs were first formed in 2008, and are currently only legal in Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, and Wyoming, as well as the federal jurisdictions of the Crow Indian Nation of Montana, and the Oglala Sioux Tribe. B corp, or Benefit Corporation. Related Articles on Bplans: What is an L3C?

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Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Decathlon Capital.

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How Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs) Can Help Your Business

Up and Running

SBDC advisors tend to be serial entrepreneurs—people who have experience starting their own businesses and really want to help other founders. But in some states like Wyoming and Montana, the population is spread out over a larger geographic area, so they offer more online counseling and training because it’s easier for most people to access.

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Not Just a WordPress User, Now Also an Advisor to Automattic

Hunter Walker

I first met Matt Mullenweg , founder of Automattic/WordPress, over a bowl of chili in Wyoming last decade. A founder who will show up at WordCamps across the world but still find time to support great startups and contribute to the tech/art communities in SF, NYC and his hometown Houston. A fully distributed team.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

My co-founder and I came up with the idea for Cuddle Clones in an entrepreneurial-focused MBA program. When we moved to the Wyoming mountains, my face would get badly chaffed from the blustering winds of winter and the hot, dry weather in summer. So Bondic was born! Who knew there would ever be something better than glue?

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Consolidation

thebarefootvc

We had the founders of leading blockchain startups (including Bitpesa, Parity, and Everledger), prominent lawyers, and corporate executives (including Amber Baldet who leads JP Morgan’s blockchain group) in attendance. Expect more to come on this front….

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