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Unlikely techie hopes to make her mark with simple online tool
With help from a young software developer, Kym Dakin of Yarmouth battles Zoom fatigue with a bookmarking application called Nugget.
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Kym Dakin developed an app called Nugget that simplifies note-taking for users on Zoom calls or other virtual platforms so meeting participants can focus on their conversations.
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After a pitch competition for Maine entrepreneurs last month, Nick Rimsa was listening to feedback from organizers who knew his Waterville-based software development company had worked with all three finalists.
“Holy Cow,” they told him, “that Nugget Lady was so good.”
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Jake Warn, a Thomas College junior from Winslow, has turned his passion for snowmobiling into a high-tech business that he created with help of the college’s Harold Alfond Institute for Business Innovation. In December, Warn, 21, launched SledTRX.com, a website catering to snowmobile riders.
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Jake Warn has turned his passion for snowmobiling into a high-tech business.
Warn is a native of Winslow and a junior at Thomas College where he is also on the school’s soccer team.
He started SledTRX.com, a digitized, interactive, free map system for snowmobiling trails across Maine.
Courtesy of SledTRX.com.
Thomas College student s digitized snowmobiling map service a win for riders centralmaine.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from centralmaine.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Heather Kerner s pizza dough company, the Good Crust, doesn t produce a tech product, but she enrolled in Propeller earlier this year anyway. The six-week course is designed to guide women as they build their tech or tech-enabled business, and she figured gaining those skills was an important part of getting her Maine-sourced pizza dough out to the market.
Now, two months into running her Skowhegan-based business, she s secured several wholesale accounts and is poised to consider a distribution partnership.
Kerner s startup is one of six generated from the program, which was launched in March by the CEI Women s Business Center. Two sessions were held this year, in March and again in July. A new round begins in January, with two sections behind held simultaneously, one on Tuesdays and one on Wednesdays. The course if free and conducted completely online.