Washington BusinessHub.

10/07/2016

BizHub celebrates its 500th build with Fancy Hat Friday!

10/02/2016

Washington gets an A grade from the Center for Digital Government for improving state digital services for citizens. We were thrilled the BusinessHub received a special mention:

http://www.govtech.com/cdg/digital-states/Digital-States-Survey-2016-Results.html

We're looking to connect with business owners as WaTech and the Washington State UBI agencies build a one-stop portal just for small businesses. Check us out at business.wa.gov. Let us know what you think about the info. by taking the super short (2 min) survey there.

09/29/2016

We want to support Washington small business, so what's on our mind is we want to know what's on yours! Please check us out at http://business.wa.gov/ and tell us what you think about the info and the navigation by looking around and completing the super brief (2 minute) survey.

Partnering with ORIA, the Washington BusinessHub has introduced new navigation features to improve information discovery on our site. Let us know what you think!

09/28/2016

Washington BusinessHub attended Renton Small Business Fair on Saturday, September 24th. We talked to 70 small business owners, many who volunteered to offer feedback on our work as we continue to build Washington's Business One Stop.

03/03/2016

02/26/2016

Thanks to Jay Inslee and Results Washington for the opportunity for us to present yesterday.
https://www.periscope.tv/w/aZ9AEjFQWEVka25SYnlqZXZ8MVlwSmtQUXZ6Tm14als6jTziOMCaIuJvr6UgHQmrvtSz4KiRjvpOnr_kzwEO

Governor Jay Inslee meets with agency directors to discuss how state government can help small business. — Olympia, Washington, United States

12/23/2015

WA Business Hub Hosts UBI Agency Summit

On Friday, December 18th, Washington BusinessHub hosted Department of Revenue, Employment Security, Labor & Industry, Secretary of State, and Results Washington in a full day of discussions and presentations about systems that support Washington's business customers.

Topics included: dor.wa.gov Redesign; LNI’s LINIIS migration; Beyond Washington: Business One Stops; Interagency Data Exchange Service Architectural Change; L&I Business Transformation; Tax and Licensing Systems Replacement Project; Corporations and Charities Registration System; and an ESD Business Update.

Response for the event was so positive that Washington BusinessHub & WaTech committed to hosting a comparable summit every six months. The opportunity to collaborate and to discuss work that benefits the business community was universally appreciated by those who attended the Summit.

12/11/2015

This is "Positioning Washington for the Future: Biz-Hub Tackling Problems in a New Way" by WaTechGov on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the…

11/19/2015

In September, a few of our team members attended Ignite Seattle, an awesome event that allows anyone the opportunity to speak in front of hundreds of people. This week, WATECH held its first Ignite conference! Check out this video of Max explaining Ignite.

11/05/2015

E-Bear had fun celebrating Halloween last week! We can't wait to see what the rest of the holidays bring!

11/05/2015

UBI agencies are rewriting and upgrading mission critical systems that will impact Washington State businesses. Interested in an opportunity to learn more about these projects and the new technologies that will serve the State's business customers through cross-agency sharing and discussion? Check out this awesome event, hosted by the Washington BusinessHub!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ubi-agency-summit-hosted-by-washington-businesshub-tickets-19430753908?aff=utm_source%3Deb_email%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_campaign%3Dnew_event_email&utm_term=eventurl_text

09/25/2015

Some of our BusinessHub team members were able to attend a members’ lunch at the Seattle Impact Hub on Thursday to talk about the website, our mission, and our brand new kiosk! It has been an awesome experience working with the Impact Hub team, including its founder, Brian Howe. Brian has an impressive and extensive resume that includes working as an attorney, professor, writer, and a managing partner at VentureScale (click this link to find out more about this awesome organization http://www.venturescale.co/). We are proud to have worked with Brian and his team to better our project! If you want to find out more about the Impact Hub, check out this link: impacthubseattle.com.