1 Million Cups Bentonville

REMINDER: We will NOT be meeting tomorrow morning for 1 Million Cups Bentonville Cups in Bentonville. Enjoy some time off and catch up on some much-needed rest! Our next meeting for 1 Million Cups Bentonville Cups will be on Wednesday, January 8th at 8:00 am... See you then! Startup Junkie | The Collaborative | McGrew Solutions, Inc Office of Entrepreneurship and Innovation | Fuel Accelerator Daniel Koonce | Kendall Jasper | Harrison Kitson | Caleb Talley Lucas Treat | Christian Dodge | Marty Buchanan | Douglas Daul, MBA Michael Routen | Jeff Amerine, PMP | Brett Amerine #Coffee | #Community | #Connection

1 Million Cups Bentonville at the Collaborative has been a weekly staple for several years now. Countless vulnerable startup founders have shared their vision and received support and community. 1MC has served as a front door to the entrepreneurial ecosystem for so many new NWA community members. 1MC also serves as a venue for GORP cohort and Fuel Accelerator participants to practice their pitches and find NWA partners. A thank you to Startup Junkie and the numerous community volunteers who retrieve the coffee, set up the signage and audio/video equipment, and record and broadcast the presentations each and every week. And thank you to the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation for creating 1 Million Cups all across the heartland. Entrepreneurship is the cornerstone of the American experience. Cheers to all who are brave enough to give it a go. ☕

And just like that, it's a wrap!! 🎁 #Coffee | #Community | #Connect Thanks to all that came and joined us at 1 Million Cups Bentonville this morning for our final meeting for #2024. This year has been good one. By the numbers: 1. 7th year here in #Bentonville 2. 52 presenters in total 3. 18 different industries represented 4. Over 1500 people attended our meetings all year Today we shared the importance of #community and how we need each of you to be part of ours. 1 Million Cups Bentonville was founded out of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation located in #KansasCity as a way to bring our community together and is based on the notion that entrepreneurs discover solutions and engage with their communities over something simple such as a cup of #coffee. We also got to hear from our community in our audience today as many shared their favorite #holiday memory. Sometimes we need to pause and #reflect what we have. Thank you #Bentonville and #NorthwestArkansas for being with us and we look forward to what #2025 has in store. #HappyHolidays #Startups | #BeBold | #StartSomething | #Technology #Networking | #HugSomeone | #DoYou | #Entrepreneurs Startup Junkie | Cadron Capital Partners | The Collaborative Office of Entrepreneurship and Innovation | McGrew Solutions, Inc Caleb Talley | Daniel Koonce | Harrison Kitson | Kendall Jasper Jeff Amerine, PMP | Brett Amerine | Lucas Treat | Marty Buchanan Robert Shawn McGrew | Christian Dodge | Douglas Daul, MBA Michael Routen | Raul Ruiz | Kimberly Norris | Windy Elstermeier Tobias Teeter | Victoria Dickerson | Ethan McCarthy

Wear your favorite #Christmas #UglySweater and join us tomorrow for our last meeting for this year's 1 Million Cups Bentonville. Enjoy #Coffee, #HotChocolate, and festive treats while sharing stories about you and your business this holiday season. Learn how you too can become a #Volunteer or a #CommunityOrganizer Plus, help us shape the #Future of 1 Million Cups Bentonville by providing your feedback at our final meeting of the year! Oh, did we mention #Giveaways? Don’t miss out! 📍 8:00 - 9:00 AM at The Collaborative in #Bentonville (700 SE 5th Street) #Coffee | #Community | #Connection #BeThere | #HappyHolidays | #SeeYouSoon | #Startups #BeJolly | #HoHoHo | #WinSomething | #Networking Startup Junkie | The Collaborative | McGrew Solutions, Inc Office of Entrepreneurship and Innovation | Fuel Accelerator Daniel Koonce | Kendall Jasper | Harrison Kitson | Caleb Talley Lucas Treat | Christian Dodge | Marty Buchanan | Douglas Daul, MBA Michael Routen | Jeff Amerine, PMP | Brett Amerine

Yet another great morning at 1 Million Cups Bentonville. Today we wrapped up Week 4 of 4 with entrepreneurs from the Greenhouse Outdoor Recreation Program (#GORP). Zach Springer with Open Access Bike Library, shared how they are  offering an affordable way to test e-bikes and promote a more sustainable environment. Jeffery Montgomery and Lily Raccasi with FireWatchAI, which is a veteran-owned company, focuses on building electronic systems that will speed-up the training time of first-time firearm owners while also increasing fun, accessibility, and overall proficiency of users in the field of modern marksmanship. Both are #awesome ideas with #solutions that would benefit many people. Thanks for joining us through the last 4 weeks #GORP! Join us next week as we hold our last 1 Million Cups Bentonville meeting for the year before we take a break for the #holidays. But not before we celebrate! Come have a cup of #coffee next week. Come share you favorite holiday traditions and stories. You know the drill, 8am at The Collaborative in #Bentonville #Startups | #BeBold | #Innovate | #GetOutdoors | #NorthwestArkansas #Entrepreneurs | #StartSomething | #AI | #Technology | #Arkansas #Firearms | #Safety | #eBikes | #TheGreatOutdoors | #YogiBear Startup Junkie | Office of Entrepreneurship and Innovation University of Arkansas | The Collaborative | McGrew Solutions, Inc Daniel Koonce | Caleb Talley |Harrison Kitson | Lucas Treat Robert Shawn McGrew | Douglas Daul, MBA | Michael Routen Marty Buchanan | Christian Dodge | Tobias Teeter | Windy Elstermeier

Today at 1 Million Cups Bentonville, we'll hear from our last two outdoor entrepreneurs: Open Access Bike Library and FireWatchAI that are part of the Greenhouse Outdoor Recreation Program (#GORP) as we wrap up Week 4 of 4 with the program. 📍 8:00 - 9:00 AM at the Collaborative in #Bentonville (700 SE 5th Street)

Wishing all of our communities a very #HappyThanksgiving2024. #BeGrateful | #SpendTimeWithFamily | #GiveThanks Startup Junkie | Cadron Capital Partners | McGrew Solutions, Inc Jeff Amerine, PMP | Brett Amerine | Caleb Talley Daniel Koonce | Kendall Jasper | Harrison Kitson Christian Dodge | Marty Buchanan | Lucas Treat Michael Routen | Douglas Daul, MBA

Good morning to everyone in #NorthwestArkansas, #Arkansas and beyond. 1 Million Cups Bentonville did not meet today to allow our community members and our volunteer organizers to spend time with their families for the #Thanksgiving2024 holiday. We wanted to give #Thanks our volunteer organizers for all their efforts. Lots goes on behind the scenes to make our weekly meetings happen. From greetings our guests at the front door, to bringing the coffee, to making sure the screen turns on, to connecting the presentations, to setting up the sound, to running live video and of course passing the microphones around for Q & A, it isn't possible without those that show up week to week and make it happen. So THANK YOU!!! A huge thank you to all of you that have come and participated with us through the year. Without you, there would not be a need to meet. And we will see you next week at 8am at The Collaborative in #Bentonville. #ThankYou | #Gracias | #Obrigado | #Merci | #Danke | #감사합니다 #TurkeyTime | #Holidays | #Thanksgiving | #PecanPie | #PumpkinPie #Volunteer | #Community | #GiveYourTime | #TimeWithFamily Startup Junkie | Cadron Capital Partners | Fuel Accelerator | ARise Conductor | Arkansas Economic Development Commission Catapult Consulting LLC of Arkansas | McGrew Solutions, Inc Onyx Coffee Lab | The Collaborative | Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Daniel Koonce | Kendall Jasper | Harrison Kitson | Caleb Talley Jeff Amerine, PMP | Brett Amerine | Victoria Dickerson | Ethan McCarthy Robert Shawn McGrew | Lucas Treat | Christian Dodge | Marty Buchanan Douglas Daul, MBA | Michael Routen | Tom Douglass | Darian Harris Grace Gill | Kristopher Adams | Jeff D. Standridge, Ed.D. | Louis Diesel | Shawn Lee | Tobias Teeter | Windy Elstermeier

Thanks to everyone that joined us this morning at 1 Million Cups Bentonville. It was a crisp morning but the #coffee hit right. Today was Week 3 of 4 from the Greenhouse Outdoor Recreation Program (#GORP). We heard from two more entrepreneurs that have a great approach to some problems that some of you may face. Ozark Technical Products : 🧰 is building modular storage solutions that promote gear accessibility and flexibility for all outdoor adventures. Natural State Carbon Repair: 🛠️🚲 provides reliable composite repairs on bicycle frames or any composite product that has sustained damage or has a manufacturing defect. We're off next week to allow everyone, including all of our awesome #volunteers and #organizers to spend some time with their families. We are #thankful for them as well as all of you that come to our weekly presentations. Make sure to join us for Week 4, our final week of the #GORP on Wednesday, December 4th at 8am right here at The Collaborative in #Bentonville. #Startups | #ModularStorage | #CarbonBikes | #Innovate #NorthwestArkansas | #TrailLife | #ToteYourGear | #Solutions Office of Entrepreneurship and Innovation | University of Arkansas Startup Junkie | McGrew Solutions, Inc | Tobias Teeter Global Entrepreneurship Network | Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Caleb Talley | Daniel Koonce | Kendall Jasper | Harrison Kitson Christian Dodge | Marty Buchanan | Michael Routen Douglas Daul, MBA | Lucas Treat | Robert Shawn McGrew

Today at 1 Million Cups Bentonville, we'll hear from two outdoor entrepreneurs that are part of the Greenhouse Outdoor Recreation Program (GORP): Ozark Technical Products : Ozark Technical Products is building modular storage solutions that promote gear accessibility and flexibility for all outdoor adventures. Natural State Carbon Repair: Natural State Carbon Repair provides reliable composite repairs on bicycle frames or any composite product that has sustained damage or has a manufacturing defect. 8:00 - 9:00 AM at the Collaborative in #Bentonville (700 SE 5th Street)