We submitted the documents for round two of the Business Impact NW Impact Pitch Competition https://businessimpactnw.org/annualevents/impact/ business financial, business feasibility and market research. We had some great help from the business coach provided to us by Business Impact NW. We should find out if we make it to the next round on August 14.

We took the Later Instagram Stories course https://later.com/blog/instagram-stories-course/
We are late in figuring out Instagram. Our intern, Noah Thomas is doing a great job in establishing our Instagram.

We started the Veterans in Residence Program.https://bunkerlabs.org/veterans-in-residence/
This is a partnership between WeWork https://www.wework.com/ and BunkerLabs shttps://bunkerlabs.org/ that provides 10 Veteran led businesses free coworking space at WeWork for 6 months at 11 locations across the U.S.

We will be at the WeWork at Lake Union in Seattlehttps://www.wework.com/buildings/south-lake-union--seattle--WA?utm_source=Google&utm_campaign=Organic&utm_medium=Listings from August 1, 2018, to January 31, 2019. This should be a great opportunity for us.

We had a great meeting with Kevin Inthapandith https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-inthapandith-14968072/ of MK Studios Seattle https://www.mkstudioseattle.com/ We had a great discussion about how we can improve our podcasts. We also talked about having Kevin filming our upcoming HR for small business video series.

We continue to meet with our customers on a weekly basis and learn valuable lessons from them that we are using to improve cavnessHR.

We spent time this week working on the cavnessHR YouTube channel. Since it will soon be hosting our weekly series on HR for small business. We changed the name to cavnessHR from the cavnessHR podcast. We will continue to place the videos for the cavnessHR podcast here.
We also went through our previous cavnessHR podcasts on YouTube and updated the tags. Thanks to Josh Kotoff https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-kotoff-0a452736/ for the help on this.

Here is the link to subscribe to the cavnessHR YouTube channel.

https://cavnesshr.co/youtuf6217

We had our final meetings with our interns who were part of the RISE program at the University of Puget Sound.https://www.pugetsound.edu/academics/experiential/for-students/featured-programs/rise/ We talked about their experience and everything they did and learned over the summer. The best news for cavnessHR is that two of them have agreed to continue interning for cavnessHR for the upcoming year.

On Thursday, August 16 at 1130 am (PST) we are doing a webinar on HR for small business, (less than 50 employees) how to deal with difficult employees and EO. Business Impact NW is hosting the webinar. https://businessimpactnw.org/calendar/business-expert-session-hr-101-for-small-businesses/

Below is the link to sign up for this webinar.

https://businessimpactnw.org/calendar/business-expert-session-hr-101-for-small-businesses/

We also had a short call with a VC that we connected with at 2018 NY Venture Summit. It was just an introductory call. But we believe it is important to establish relationships now.

Finally, we had our initial call with one of our Board of Advisors. It was very helpful for us and we really appreciate that we have a Board of Advisors to assist us in building cavness HR.

Below is a talk we did with Josh Kotoff. (YouTube strategist and SEO)