VCET Lunch & Learn: What Startups Need to know about Cybersecurity
Join us for this Lunch & Learn to learn more about why hackers target small businesses and what basic steps you can take to improve your cyber hygiene.
Join us for this Lunch & Learn to learn more about why hackers target small businesses and what basic steps you can take to improve your cyber hygiene.
This Lunch and Learn will de-stigmatize this aspect of running a business, and will provide you with authentic tactics and strategies to help your business scale.
Book a time with Sam & Dave during their recurring weekly office hours, every Wednesday and Thursday.
Join us for a Lunch and Learn where we’ll dive into strategies and ideas for getting creative with our wellbeing to recharge our batteries regularly and avoid burnout.
Join us June 8th for a conversation with the team at EZ-Probate to hear about their experience with onboarding new employees and building a culture that can multiply and adapt as they grow.
Join Worxbee,”the gold standard of Executive Assistant solutions” to understand how utilizing an EA can make your work life easier and relieve you of many of the stresses that come with running a business.
The easiest way to hire interns has arrived. Introducing the UVM Micro Internship Program!
Project management is a framework that can help add method to the madness, increase visibility, and reduce risk, but what tools you use and how you use them can make a huge difference. That’s why we’re partnering with Echo Consulting to take a deep dive into their favorite tool: Click Up.
Not only is reputation essential for business survival, but online customer engagement management has become a key marketing strategy today. That’s why we’re partnering up with Matt Murray, the CEO and Founder of Widewail, for a Lunch and Learn focused on customer reviews and local SEO.
In partnership with VCET, VBSR’s Small Business toolkit will now be accessible as five separate free courses on the Vermont Startup Collective, a digital platform, connecting 700+ entrepreneurs, teams, freelancers, and mentors across Vermont.
This interactive seminar will look at our reactions to failure, how people typically move through a business loss, and ways to incorporate the sometimes-hidden benefits from our errors.
In this session, Matt Cropp of the Vermont Employee Ownership Center will provide an overview of common broad-based employee ownership models, how an exit to employee ownership works, and the strategies founders can employ pre-exit to build a strong foundation for an ownership culture.
We think it’s safe to say that everyone’s mental health has been challenged in the past year, in one way or another. That’s why we’ve partnered with Colin Ryan to host the show, Unreliable Narrator.
What has the last year taught us about safety, stability, and mitigating the economic impacts of COVID-19? How can we still create great experiences for our customers? How can food and beverage businesses hit the ground running in 2021?
Do you know what your goals are for e-commerce? Does your strategy integrate with your goals? Join VCET Vice President Sam Roach-Gerber as she explores these topics and more in a conversation with e-commerce expert Heather Palmer, founder and President of HMP Web Consulting.
Join us to learn which e-commerce platform would work best for your business in a conversation with expert, Peter Jewett, of Bytes.co.
Whether you’re a remote employee, growing a remote workforce, or just looking for company culture inspiration, join us for an engaging conversation with digital design leader, Sketch, on March 19, covering what it takes to manage a remote team.
There is no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on businesses large and small. But as with many difficult situations in life, if we look hard enough, we may find silver linings.
The final event of Season 5 of the Female Founders Speaker Series wraps up with one of the most relevant topics of our time: Education Technology. Join us Monday, March 15th at 5pm to hear what it takes to start and scale an EdTech company in the Green Mountain State.
The USPTO has a wealth of resources for individuals interested in learning more about protecting their intellectual property and who need assistance doing so.
Whether you have something to sell, buy, or are just curious about e-commerce, join for an insightful discussion March 10 focused on selling on Amazon. We’ll hear from experts Tom Funk and Gwen McShea of Lean Edge Marketing who will share what it takes to increase sales on the fast-growing but complex Amazon marketplace.
Unfamiliar with patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets? Learn about intellectual property (IP) basics and potential ways to protect your innovations as you transition from idea to product.
In order to grow your online business with speed and sustainability, you need to establish systematic demand generation and sell-through.
Unfortunately navigating the world of insurance can be confusing and time consuming. Join Travis Spencer as he gives a brief overview of the different types of policies out there, and tells you what you need to know for your business, now!
A fast-paced session covering the key elements of converting a website into a marketing engine for accelerated sales growth.
How to structure and strategize your search engine optimization efforts to appeal to your prospective audience with measurable outcomes.
Agriculture may be our state’s our oldest and most-loved industry…but that doesn’t mean we know all the answers. What does it take to start a farm in Vermont?
This workshop you will explore the business case and strategic value behind defining a personal brand.
Join Eva Shaw, the founder of Overeasy, to learn how she turned a hobby into a thriving winter apparel business…all while she was a student at Middlebury College.
Come learn the basic principles of living zero waste and how to prepare for a zero waste holiday with Marina McCoy & Alexandra Thompson from Waste Free Earth.
The challenges facing Vermont call on us to unite to build a better future. The Vermont Council on Rural Development, a neutral facilitator of public process, is excited to share the first draft of the Vermont Proposition.
Olive and Milo Social Studio sits down to share insights on social media trends, provide strategies for businesses to optimize their presence on social media, and give advice on using social media as a vehicle for change.
Join us for a VCET virtual Lunch & Learn with Congressman Peter Welch, where he will share an update, hear from some Vermont startups that were impacted by COVID, and take part in a Q&A with our community.
Join us this Friday at the Waterfront for an outdoor, distanced First Friday!
Learn about the common web attacks and see how the attacks work by hacking an application using manual and automated tools.
VCET is partnering with Aleria Research to offer a deep dive into why equity, inclusion, and belonging are crucial to your startup.
VCET Virtual Happy Hour every Third Thursday of the month!
VCET is partnering with Aleria Research to offer a deep dive into why equity, inclusion, and belonging are crucial to your startup.
Come take a deep dive into the world of copyrights and trademarks so that you can protect your intellectual property with confidence.
Join this Lunch & Learn to hear some strategies you can use as a womxn entrepreneur to sell more confidently on Instagram.
Learn the basics of secure coding to mitigate the most common threats.
VCET Virtual Happy Hour every Third Thursday of the month!
Come take a deep dive into the world of patents and trade secrets so that you can protect your intellectual property with confidence.
In this interactive webinar we will discuss the six ways in which Diversity & Inclusion impact your ability to recruit talent, and how you can leverage D&I to expand your talent pool and lower your hiring costs.
Join us for a (virtual) drink of your choice and reflection on the week. Note: tea/water/coffee drinkers welcome 🙂 Need a refill? Order online at Dedalus Wine (free Burlington delivery and curbside pickup), Foam (cans and growlers to-go), and Citizen Cider (drive thru pickup.)
Book a time with Sam & Dave during their recurring weekly office hours, every Wednesday and Thursday.
Join us for a (virtual) drink of your choice and reflection on the week. Note: tea/water/coffee drinkers welcome 🙂 Need a refill? Order online at Dedalus Wine (free Burlington delivery and curbside pickup), Foam (cans and growlers to-go), and Citizen Cider (drive thru pickup.)
Learn about the current Google search trends, consumer insights, and analytics in determining market trends ahead.
VP of Innovation at King Arthur Flour, shares insights into how to manage growth, pivot resources, and #ScaleHere.
Learn which types of content are best for your business, ways to develop a content plan, and how to earn more from the content you create.
Join us for a (virtual) drink of your choice and reflection on the week. Note: tea/water/coffee drinkers welcome 🙂 Need a refill? Order online at Dedalus Wine (free Burlington delivery and curbside pickup), Foam (cans and growlers to-go), and Citizen Cider (drive thru pickup.)
Join us this Thursday to hear updates on what the VCET team has been up to in terms of reopening and our hopes for the future.
Book a time with Sam & Dave during their recurring weekly office hours, every Wednesday and Thursday.
Let’s start our week together with (virtual) coffee and positivity. Need a bag of coffee? Order online from one of our local roasters, Brio or Vivid, for delivery to your door 🙂
Join us for a (virtual) drink of your choice and reflection on the week. Note: tea/water/coffee drinkers welcome 🙂 Need a refill? Order online at Dedalus Wine (free Burlington delivery and curbside pickup), Foam (cans and growlers to-go), and Citizen Cider (drive thru pickup.)
Book a time with Sam & Dave during their recurring weekly office hours, every Wednesday and Thursday.
Let’s start our week together with (virtual) coffee and positivity. Need a bag of coffee? Order online from one of our local roasters, Brio or Vivid, for delivery to your door 🙂
Join us for a (virtual) drink of your choice and reflection on the week. Note: tea/water/coffee drinkers welcome 🙂 Need a refill? Order online at Dedalus Wine (free Burlington delivery and curbside pickup), Foam (cans and growlers to-go), and Citizen Cider (drive thru pickup.)
Book a time with Sam & Dave during their recurring weekly office hours, every Wednesday and Thursday.
Let’s start our week together with (virtual) coffee and positivity. Need a bag of coffee? Order online from one of our local roasters, Brio or Vivid, for delivery to your door 🙂
Join us for a (virtual) drink of your choice and reflection on the week. Note: tea/water/coffee drinkers welcome 🙂 Need a refill? Order online at Dedalus Wine (free Burlington delivery and curbside pickup), Foam (cans and growlers to-go), and Citizen Cider (drive thru pickup.)
Learn the importance of developing an Intellectual Property (IP) strategy and the value of protecting IP when starting a business.
Let’s start our week together with (virtual) coffee and positivity. Need a bag of coffee? Order online from one of our local roasters, Brio or Vivid, for delivery to your door 🙂
Join us for a (virtual) drink of your choice and reflection on the week. Note: tea/water/coffee drinkers welcome 🙂 Need a refill? Order online at Dedalus Wine (free Burlington delivery and curbside pickup), Foam (cans and growlers to-go), and Citizen Cider (drive thru pickup.)