Social venture work at StoryManager went into full swing with the recent funding of BizzyB.com. BizzyB is a new online project-based learning platform designed for middle and high school students to develop entrepreneurial skills and philanthropic awareness. The project received a three-year, $833,000 development grant from Hoag Foundation via introduction by First Foundation Bank. BizGym Foundation, our 501C3 non-profit, also received a Google grant to push 2016 grants over $1 Million. Made … [Read more...]
Restaurant Branding Tips
This post entitled "Restaurant Branding Tips" is a result of my new morning coffee meet up called Steve's Lanai. I provide the coffee and smart folks stop by before work on Tuesday mornings (7-8:30am) to share a little community chat time. This week was the first installment and although there were just two of us, it felt like there were a dozen. Thx to Keola Reyes for opening my mind with his well-read mind. Keola came to me by way of a project I recently did (the Entree´-treneurship Center … [Read more...]
Brand-Aid Kicks Off
StoryManager is proud to be a sponsor of another BizGym Foundation project: Brand-Aid Hawai‘i. Brand-Aid kicked off this week with an inaugural Brand-Aid Triage Pop-up in downtown Honolulu. Special Thanks to Dr. Evans and the gang at Argosy University for being the presenting sponsor and hosting the event at Tamarind Park at Bishop Square. The goal of Brand-Aid is simple: do free brand checkups on companies to help fix their businesses brand boo-boos. At the first Triage, we patched up a … [Read more...]
Lemonade Alley Profiled in Midweek
In Hawai‘i, getting profiled on the cover of Midweek is a dream for many. I didn't really get that until we arrived there this week. so I'm especially thankful to Midweek business & entrepreneurial writer Christina O'Connor and photographer extraordinaire Nathalie Walker for making us look and sound so zesty. I also want to thank Editor Don Chapman for allowing the kids to be in the main shot. I know it's not Midweek's custom to have a gaggle of people on the cover, but Lemonade Alley is … [Read more...]
Steve Sue Financials for Startups Class @UH pnm
Financial Modeling for Startups Event ID: L13626 Info: Mar 9-23, 2015 • Mon • 6:00-8:00pm • 3 mtgs • UHM Sakamaki C102 • $75 With: Steve Sue A Workshop to Make Your Numbers Sing Scared or intimidated to tune up your numbers? Fear not. Steve Sue, author of BizGym.com leads you through three, two-hour sessions, in which you create a set of 5-year, funding-ready financials using the super-easy, highly-automated and actually-fun BizGym Financial Modeling System. Steve comes from a creative … [Read more...]
ChefZone Comes to Life!
StoryManager is proud to have played a part in bringing ChefZone to life. ChefZone is a new foodservice concept that took over 2 years of planning and development to create a business sized to do $100M a year through a 45,000sf facility in Honolulu, Hawai‘i. This was an epic feat of new business modeling that is a multi-million dollar flyer for holding company Y. Hata & Co. For our part, we applied BizGym.com, our online entrepreneur's startup and growth … [Read more...]
3 Tips to Basic Social Media
I had acai bowls this morning with one of my best friends. Like many, he seeks to leverage the awesomeness of Social Media for his professional association. Now I'm no Rob Bertholf, but my simple advice on basic Social seems a helpful approach for lay-folks. So rather than write an email to my friend, I thought I'd just throw down a post. Back to my friend, this morning he was abuzz with, "OMG, there's so much to ingest about Social but we have soooo many Big Ideas about this or that and how … [Read more...]
