Episode 738: Membership Campaign Special with Mana Up Cohort 7 – Oct 19, 2022

Photo (l:r) Burt Lum, Meli James, Matt Laundrie, Mahina Tuteur

During this special fall membership campaign edition, we have Meli James from ManaUp and sheʻs brought a couple of alumni from the latest cohort. Be sure you get your tickets to the ManaUp Showcase at Bloomingdales on November 3, 2022.

During our live broadcast, the phone lines are reserved for your show of support. We are looking for new members so if you enjoy our weekly tech talks, we hope you’ll consider supporting the great, original, local programming here on Hawaii Public Radio. You can show your support by going to HawaiiPublicRadio.org or calling 888-536-4700 to become a member.

With that, I welcome Meli James and Mahina Tuteur, founder of Surf Shack Puzzles and Matt Laundrie, founder of Revive Glassworks to Bytemarks Cafe…

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Episode 738: Membership Campaign Special with Mana Up Cohort 7 – Oct 19, 202

Episode 717: Purple Maia + Mana Up Pop Up – May 25, 2022

Photo (l:r) Burt Lum, Naomi Yoshida, Meli James, Chloe Blake, Ben Lillibridge

First up, we have Naomi Yoshida from Purple Maia to tell us about their upcoming Grit and Grinz event coming up this weekend on May 28th.

Then, we are joined by Meli James, co-founder of Mana Up, whoʻs brought a couple of companies, Chloe Blake from Kauai Sweet Shoppe and Ben Lillibridge from Malama Mushrooms, to talk about the pop-up retail site at the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, their respective startups and Cohort 7.

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Episode 717: Purple Maia + Mana Up Pop Up – May 25, 2022

Episode 688: ManaUp Showcase + Hononu.io – Nov 3, 2021

Photo (l:r) Burt Lum, Meli James, Brian Glazer

First up, we have Meli James co-founder of Mana Up, here to tell us about the upcoming 2021 Mana Up Showcase happening on Thursday, Nov 4, 2021.

Then, we are joined by Brian Glazer, from Hohonu, to talk about climate change, sensor technology, Paepae o Heeʻia and partnership with NOAA to support 54 communities in the US Southeast.

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Episode 688: ManaUp Showcase + Hononu.io – Nov 3, 2021

Episode 663: Mana Up + FCC Emergency Broadband Benefit – May 12, 2021

Photo (l:r) Burt Lum, Meli James, Laura Arcibal, Laura Kay Rand

First up, we have Meli James here to tell us about the upcoming virtual job fair happening on May 13, 2021 and latest ManaUp cohort.

Then, we are joined by Laura Arcibal from the Department of Health and Laura Kay Rand from the Hawaii Foodbank, who are here to tell us about the launch of the FCCʻs Emergency Broadband Benefit.

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Episode 663: Mana Up + FCC Emergency Broadband Benefit – May 12, 2021

Episode 648: Mana Up Cohort 6 + Tech Bridges – Jan 27, 2021

Photo (l:r) Burt Lum, Meli James, Neal Miyake, Len Higashi

First up, we share info on the upcoming 6th annual It’s Great to be A Teacher (virtual) event! Saturday, January 30, 2021 8:30 am to 3:00 pm. If you are interested in what it takes to become a teacher sign up for this free event here.

We then have Meli James from Mana Up here to tell us about the application period for Mana Upʻs Cohort 6.

As our main feature, we are joined by Neal Miyake from the US Dept of the Navy, Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific and Len Higashi from the Hawaii Technology Development Center to talk about a collaboration between Naval Labs, industry, and academia called Tech Bridges.

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Episode 648: Mana Up Cohort 6 + Tech Bridges

Episode 614: SBDC + Mana Up Cohort 5 – June 3, 2020

Photo (l:r) Burt Lum, Meli James, Malia Kaʻaihue, Dante Valentino

First up, the Hawaii Small Business Development Center is pleased to announce their entrepreneurship class on Wednesday, June 10th, focused on people who are at the beginning stages of starting their business on O‘ahu. This class will address all of the important topics you must consider before investing money or time, and so it is an important step in the process of starting your business.

Then we welcome to the show Meli James from Mana Up, Malia KaÊ»aihue from Aloha Modern and Dante Valentino from Vitalitea Hawaii. They’re here to tell us about the next Mana Up cohort and how they’ve adjusted to the new normal.

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Episode 612: ManaUp + Wifi on Wheels – May 20, 2020

Photo (l:r) Burt Lum, Meli James, Sara “Mili” Milianta-Laffin, David Miyashiro

First up, on May 30-31, NASA, along with the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), is inviting coders, entrepreneurs, scientists, designers, storytellers, makers, builders, artists, and technologists to participate in a virtual hackathon. During a period of 48 hours, participants from around the world will create virtual teams and use Earth observation data to develop solutions to issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic. For more info go to: https://covid19.spaceappschallenge.org/

Then, we have Meli James from House of ManaUp, on to tell us about a three day workshop to build your digital marketing skills.

Finally, we’re joined by Sara “Mili” Milianta-Laffin from the Ilima Intermediate School and David Miyashiro from Hawaii Kids Can to talk about Wifi on Wheels.

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Episode 562: Startup Grind HNL and Drone Bootcamp

Photo (l:r) Burt Lum, Meghdad Abbaszadegan, Ted Ralston

First up, the Mana Up Summer Showcase is tomorrow, Thursday, June 6 at T Galleria by DFS Hawai‘i in WaikÄ«kÄ«. The showcase will feature pitches from 10 trending local product companies, followed by a marketplace with 25+ vendors and a party. Next up Meghdad Abbaszadegan tells us about the revival of Startup Grind Honolulu. Then, we have Ted Ralson from UH’s Applied Research Lab here to talk about Unmanned Aerial Systems and the drone bootcamp.

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Episode 561: PyHawaii and Mana Up Summer Showcase

Photo (l:r) Burt Lum, Zak Noyle, Chalmer Lowe, Amber Thibaut, Meli James

First up, Chalmer Lowe tells us about the upcoming PyNight Python Programming Competition and Chalmer’s Last Lecture. Then, we have Meli James co-founder of Mana Up, Amber Thibaut from Coco Moon, and Zak Noyle from HAYN give us a preview of what is happening at the Mana Up Co-hort 3 Summer Showcase.

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Episode 547: @XLR8HI and ManaUp Cohort 3

Photo (l:r) Burt Lum, Zak Noyle, Jalene Kanani, Omar Sultan

First up, Omar Sultan tell us about the next XLR8HI Pau Hana Talk Story with Startup Capital Ventures. Then, Jalene Kanani from Noho Home and Zak Noyle from Hayn both part of Mana Up‘s 3rd Cohort are here to fill us in on their entrepreneurial adventure.

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