Hot Chocolatier owner Wendy Buckner stands in her business Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015, in Chattanooga, Tenn. Buckner completed a 7-month Next Level program which helps business owners take their businesses to the “next level” of success and profitability.More info
For information about the Urban League’s NextLevel next round of classes which start in February see www.ulchatt.net or call 423-756-1762.
First graduates
First class of small business owners to graduate from Urban League’s NextLevel program:• Dr. Thomas Rumph, Aspire Family Dentistry• Cherita Adams, Blue Orleans Seafood Restaurant• Melinda Bone, Chicken-w-Bones• Charles Bass, CIB Enterprises• James Rogers, Customer Healthcare, LLC• Sarah Hooper and Amanda Varnell, Dish T’ Cooking School & Catering Co.• Sam Bicking, Docu-Shed• Cheryl Key, John “Duke” Franklin, Jr. John P. Franklin Funeral Home• Grace Frank, Grace Frank Group• Norma Maloney, LoAdebar• John “JJ” Jerman, Office Furniture Warehouse• Jason Hill, Papercut Interactive, Inc.• Richard Carmack, RMJ Tactical• Efren Ormaza, Terra Nostra• Wendy Buckner, The Hot Chocolatier
Chattanooga is great if you’re an entrepreneur.
Wendy Buckner knows that first hand because in 2008 she took part in the inaugural CreateHere Springboard, a program that helped entrepreneurs turn their ideas into businesses and eventually evolved into today’s Company Lab entrepreneur “incubator.”
“That class helped me create my business,” said Buckner, who co-founded the Hot Chocolatier artisan chocolate shop that year with her husband Brandon Buckner.