MONTHLY CHANCE MEETINGS @ The Rose
Sometimes all you need is the right connection and a little inspiration. Well, what are you waiting for? Come find both at our free monthly networking event. You never know...
Theme: The Business of Saving Energy
Businesses are always looking for places to cut costs and improve efficiency. One simple and often overlooked area of is energy usage. But don’t worry, you don’t have to invest thousands in solar panels to achieve results. There are simple, quick, and practical steps you can take to start saving on your power bill immediately.
At our March 2nd Chance Meetings Phil Cameron of Energy Conservation Works (ECW) will walk you through those steps and offer resources and examples that both increase your bottom line and reduce your carbon footprint. We at Silicon Couloir are proud to promote triple bottom line companies: people, profit, planet. Come learn how you can be part of the solution.
ECW helps homeowners, business owners, and agency partners to identify and implement efficiency, conservation, and renewable energy projects. Marrying environmental stewardship with financial stewardship, this program will offer resident business access to numerous local resources.
ECW's Executive Director, Phil Cameron will be joined by several local business owners that have benefited from ECW and/or Lower Valley Energy support to achieve success with such projects. During the program, ECW and these local entrepreneurs will share information about:
Resources to assess and understand your company's energy use and emissions
Local, regional, and federal grants to support conservation and renewable projects
ECW Small Business Energy Financing
Utility Rebates and Incentives
LVE's Green Power Program
The program will conclude with Q&A, so please bring all your burning, energy questions!
Chance Meetings will be followed by an Energy Conservation Works Lunch and Learn from 12-1 on Wednesday, March 11th at The Cowork Space (140 East Broadway Suite #25). Please email Rebecca@SiliconCouloir.com to register.
About Phil Cameron:
Phil Cameron is the Executive Director of Energy Conservation Works (ECW). ECW works to advocate and implement energy conservation and emission reduction projects in Jackson Hole. Previously, Phil served as Executive Director of Yellowstone-Teton Clean Cities where the Department of Energy recognized Phil as a ‘Rising Star’ in the National Clean Cities program for his work on transportation projects across Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks. His past experience includes environmental education & monitoring, guiding, environmental and sustainability consulting, and resource management.
Phil received his B.A. in Geology from Amherst College and completed the Teton Science Schools’ Environmental Education Residency program in 2005. He has served on the boards of Teton County's Integrated Solid Waste & Recycling, Jackson Hole Trout Unlimited, and the Murie Center. Phil and his wife Robin, have lived in Jackson for nearly 18 years and enjoy all that raising two young boys here has to offer.
NEWS AND NOTES
Save the Date for Pitch Day 2020
Mark your calendars for Pitch Day 2020, which will be held on Tuesday, September 15th at Center for the Arts. Entrepreneurs, look for details this summer announcing the application period. In its 9th year, this event is free and open to the public.
Shark Tank, Teton Style. Pitch Day empowers entrepreneurs who are already on their way to growing sustainable businesses by offering a platform to gain experience and feedback that will help hone their ideas. Pitch Day features a select handful of local entrepreneurs pitching their business ideas for cash prizes to a panel of experienced investors and a public audience of hundreds. This event supports the need for local start-up and early-stage entrepreneurs to take their ideas to the next level and gain valuable experience from the effort.
Pitch Day helps to promote our thriving entrepreneurial community and inspires audience members to take the next step in bringing their own entrepreneurial dreams to fruition.
Best of Jackson Hole is Back!
It’s that time of year again. Please show your support for Silicon Couloir by nominating us as best nonprofit until February 28th, then voting for us from March 3rd to March 15th.
This year’s Best of Jackson Hole is split into two phases, nomination and voting. Make sure to nominate your favorite business, live music venue, margarita, etc. before February 28 at midnight in order for them to be included in the voting phase starting March 2!
NOMINATE a business, a friend, or yourself for over 90+ different categories from February 21 to February 28.
VOTE for the best of each category from March 3 to March 15.
Silicon Couloir Welcomes New Trustee
Mary McCarthy
We are pleased to welcome Mary McCarthy as our newest Silicon Couloir Trustee. Mary is a real estate industry executive with experience in institutional capital raising, design, and executive recruiting. She is Principal of Untitled Solutions LLC, her advisory firm, and Of Counsel to Terra Search Partners, a San Francisco-based executive recruiting firm.
Trained and having worked as an architect, Mary pursued a long career in real estate finance and investment fund-raising. Mary began her business career in Morgan Stanley’s real estate investment banking department following her MBA from Wharton. She subsequently worked for real estate investment firms in capital raising roles and concluded her finance career in 2015 as a senior managing director in the Capital Markets Group of Hines, an international real estate firm. Having joined Terra Search Partners in 2016, Mary transitioned to an advisory role with Terra as she moved to Jackson Hole full time in 2018.
Mary is also a mentor in Silicon Couloir's TEAMS program.
Trustees help Silicon Couloir build more organizational capacity and runway to continue doing great work for entrepreneurship in the Teton regional economy. Their core gift to entrepreneurs is a multi-year financial commitment as a major donor to Silicon Couloir. If you are interested in becoming a Trustee please email our executive director Gary Trauner at Gary@SiliconCouloir.com.
Start-Up Intensive Now Taking Applications for
Spring 2020
Please visit https://www.siliconcouloir.com/startup to apply.
Authentag is Hiring
Authentag, one of Silicon Couloir's 2019 Pitch Day finalists, recently won a National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research grant and as a result, now has a specific budget for new development resources. Please email torti@authentag.com if you are interested.
Authentag - Supply Chain SaaS - IT Staffing needs
The ideal candidate should have adeptness on the following technologies, which are currently used in our technical stacks, in priority:
1) Ruby on Rails 5 on API development, with Postman for API testing (critical)
2) Node/mongoDB back-end development (2 or 3, knowing one of them is critical)
3) React front-end development
4) devOps & server admin. capability, hosting on Linode (quite important)
5) Some practices of TDD (good to have)
6) Querying with GraphQL, with Apollo GraphQL as client (good to have)
Announcing Alta Entrepreneur Cate Stillman
Pre-Order of New Book
Cate Stillman—CEO of Yogahealer in Alta, WY—is releasing her second book on March 17! Master of You is available for pre-order now here. This book is a five-point system to synchronize your body, your home, and your time with your ambition. Congratulations, Cate!
SummitX 2020 with Special Local Rates
This will be a retreat like no other — an opportunity for senior leaders in business, tech and innovation across industries to build new relationships, advance your own leadership skills, and get a fresh perspective that can only be achieved outside of the ordinary. SummitX is aimed at senior leadership and tailored to a small core group of 10-15 company leaders pushing boundaries across business and tech — in commercial & lifestyle brands that stand for social good, as start-ups and funders who bring life to new and innovative ideas, and at organizations advocating for positive change. Special local pricing is available for members of the Silicon Couloir community: http://summitx.co/register.
HAVE NEWS TO SHARE?
As always, please feel free to send news of your company's press, events, successes, and milestones to Gary@siliconcouloir.com and we'll do our best to feature them in our newsletters!
ARE YOU A COMMUNITY CARETAKER?
Silicon Couloir strengthens our Teton regional community by empowering the entrepreneurial ecosystem. More than just business development, we believe in enriching our community character and enhancing our mountain town culture. Help us support business pioneers in the Tetons by becoming a community caretaker!
To offer your time or talent, please email us at Gary@siliconcouloir.com.
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