Nymbl Raises $300K For Print-On-Demand Ecommerce Platform
CHEYENNE, WYO. (PRWEB) JANUARY 09, 2019
Nymbl.io (Nymbl, LLC), recently raised $300k to launch the world’s first all-in-one Ecommerce platform focused on the print-on-demand (POD) merchandise industry. With the recent closing of this Pre-Seed round, including $100k from Casper’s Breakthrough 307 fund, a $50K grant from the Kickstart:Wyoming program, and several other prominent angel investors, Nymbl is set to cause a disruption in the POD Ecommerce industry.
"We saw an opportunity to solve the complexities involved with setting up and operating a merchandise Ecommerce shop," said Zac Folk, Nymbl's founder and CEO. "With this additional funding we can continue to deliver on that promise, while refining our product offering and market fit with our beta customers as we prepare to scale."
As Nymbl begins the roll out of its platform, the investment funds will be used to hire additional staff to expand the company’s reach, bolster the platform’s performance, and market to its target segments, while ensuring top-notch support is available to its customers. The target market for the Nymbl platform includes influencers, celebs, entrepreneurs, artists, photographers, bands, businesses, non-profits, schools, printers, and sports teams.
“What Nymbl has developed over the past couple of years is hugely impressive,” stated Brett Florio, CEO of Foxy.io, an Ecommerce tech company with over $2bn processed. “As a technology partner, customer, and investor, Foxy is excited to witness Nymbl’s growth, and will be actively referring interested customers to the turn-key platform.”
Nymbl’s Board of Directors includes Zac Folk, Karl Kaplan, Shawn Mills, Amy Surdam, and Brian Worthen.
About Nymbl:
The Nymbl Platform allows clients to sell their merchandise via an easy-to-use service, with no up-front investment or inventory risk, while Nymbl’s fulfiller network prints and ships our products on-demand around the globe.
Nymbl features a proprietary Ecommerce CMS and software technologies that can take any online artwork and automatically convert it into a merchandise store via API. Sign-up and installation for an online merch store is free and takes less than a couple of minutes. The platform also boasts a proprietary automated product image mockup system, a simple web page builder tool, and is the world’s first all-in-one solution focused on the print-on-demand market.

Wyoming Tribune Eagle by Christina Shuttles, October 28, 2018. CHEYENNE – A longtime aviation industry professional and Wyoming Department of Transportation employee has assumed the role of WYDOT aeronautics administrator after Amy Surdam resigned months ago.
Brian Olsen, a licensed civil engineer with a background in airport engineering, was appointed Sept. 1.
Olsen grew up in Rawlins, graduating from Rawlins High School before earning his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Wyoming.
He joined WYDOT’s Bridge Program in 2002, leaving for a number of years to work as a stress engineer for the Boeing Company in Everett, Washington. He returned to WYDOT a decade ago, first as a bridge engineer. Following several years as an airport engineer, he was promoted to engineering and construction program manager for the department’s Aeronautics Division, which he now oversees in his new position.
His salary is $104,400 per year.
Olsen will continue to manage air service development in the state, working with the Air Service Enhancement Program, and distributing state and federal money to develop airports.
As the Air Service Improvement Council works to replace the bulk of ASEP in the coming months, Olsen said he would rely on the judgment of stakeholders and other state experts to guide the conversation about what is best for Wyoming’s regional airports.
“I have a passion for aviation in Wyoming,” he said. “ASEP has been a great success. We can be thankful to our Legislature that it had been innovative in recruiting and retaining air service in the state. What we are trying to do now with capacity purchase programs is continue to stabilize and improve air service in Wyoming.”
Olsen said he believes barriers to commercial air service here are nationwide industry concerns, including pilot shortages. To help combat this, the division will launch a multi-year aviation economic impact study.
“Aviation has a huge impact on the lives of people in Wyoming, and it is a tremendous benefit to the state,” he said. “We see about $1.4 billion worth of economic impact that comes out of aviation in the state. We want to continue to educate folks about the value of aviation.”
Details of Surdam’s resignation remain unclear after a records request submitted to WYDOT last week was denied – the resignation letter resides in her personnel file, officials said.
While she didn’t comment on her departure, Surdam wished Olsen the best.
“Brian is an amazing engineer and leader,” she said. “He will be a great asset to the Aeronautics Division.”
Surdam joined WYDOT in early 2017. She and her husband, Dan, own Stitches Acute Care and recently acquired The Array School in Cheyenne.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Array School Announces Acquisition and New Ownership

CHEYENNE, WY — The Array School is excited to announce new ownership. Dan and Amy Surdam
acquired Array from Board Members in August 2018. Dan and Amy Surdam own Stitches Acute Care Centers in Cheyenne and Laramie and are committed to furthering healthcare in Wyoming through innovation.
“We approached Array in March 2018 to help us design a telemedicine platform and from
there began bigger discussion of acquisition. We are very thankful to the Board and team
for all of the hard work to get Array to the successful place that it is. Our goal is to help
create a highly desired workforce in Wyoming for Wyoming and perhaps partner on
healthcare initiates such as telemedicine advancement.” -- Dan Surdam, MD, Owner of Stitches Acute Care.
Eric Trowbridge will remain with the organization as the CEO and the Advisory Board will remain in
place. Jesse Johnston, an Array graduate, has recently joined the team as the Director of Student Affairs.
“We are excited that Dan and Amy Surdam are assuming the leadership role for Array.
They are seasoned entrepreneurs and successful business owners who we feel are in an
excellent position to help take Array to the next level.” -- Matthew Kaufman, Former Board President of The Array School.
Array is currently teaching its fourth class of full web stack development to students who will graduate in March 2019. For more information about Array go to www.arrayschool.com or email
[email protected].

Both knowingly and unknowingly, I was pulling myself together.

There was of course, vicious organizing of any and everything we owned: closets, files, the yard even.

After the election I had gained twelve pounds. On my small 5’5’ frame, it was a lot and my back and knees noticed. I was running quite a bit and eating less. It’s amazing how sitting at a desk when little chocolates are constantly within reach and eating so many business lunches, dinners, and coffees can just make it impossible to lose weight. Without that, I was eating extremely healthy. Yesterday a half of banana and peach with a little peanut butter for breakfast, and salad and other veggies for dinner. I only had a few pounds to go until I reached my day-of-election weight. I was going to get there.

I spent more time with the kids. Last night we ate dinner together, played Monopoly, then Jake and I walked Marley to the park and threw her the ball. On the way home we stopped at my parent’s to say hi. Because they lived that close. Because we could while they lived there and we lived here. Because we were all alive and healthy enough to exchange a quick hello.

“I’ve been meaning to clean my garage soon,” Papa said as he looked at me. With that one sentence I knew exactly what he was asking.

“Get rid of them,” I said quickly. “Get rid of all of them.”

He had my campaign yard signs, small and large, stacked neatly in a corner…just in case.

She was doing a decent job and gaining incredible name recognition, there was absolutely no way I could beat her with my Pollyanna attitude and recent streak of quitting. And, more importantly, I didn’t want to.

I felt like I was just gaining a freedom I had never known or accepted before. Although Dan and I had been married for ten years, I had never taken time off just to enjoy life, the kids, and pursue dreams. Since I was twelve and babysitting full time in the summer for $2 an hour, I have always worked. Every single summer of my life I have worked and had to answer to someone. This summer of course I would be working. Dan and I are extreme entrepreneurs with ten projects on our burner waiting to see which and how many stick. Even today I will be hustling our our clinics and showing one of our team members the relationship ropes. Before that coffee with my old Army recruiter who is in to telemedicine. Before that, coffee with a friend who may or may not do lofts and who may or may not be pushing business to an entity we are considering purchasing for the point of furthering a few other ideas we have.

Yet, here’s the difference. It’s all work I want to do. No one is making me do it. I want to do it. I’m excited for it. I’m excited to see my old friends and talk about new things. In so many ways I have felt like a geranium that has had too much sun, wilted and weathered, unpleasant to look at and barely hanging on. Seeing old friends with that first nice hug and cheek peck is like someone pouring a large watering can of water on me. I perk up, I’m pretty, I’m alive.

Here’s another difference, I’ll be doing work I know and I am comfortable with. I speak the language, I know the jargon, I’m the expert. I love medicine and helping others.

And finally, I like making the decisions whether it is a culture shift or where we go next. There is a lot to be said about being a key decision maker in an organization. 

“I just wanted to be sure,” Jack said about the signs.

My mom: “That chapter of our life is over. We’re moving on.”

Yes, we are moving on.

Moving on with the obvious shed of noisy things. No to things that I am not passionate about. No to feeling pulled down. I say no to social events I really didn’t want to go to and stay home to do important tasks like play Monopoly with the boys, throw Marley the ball, and say hello to my parents.
 

“Every day you are smiling more,” my Army friend said as I painted the front wall of the 18th St. building antique gray.

“Yes,” I agreed.

That morning I got up early while everyone else was asleep and took Marley for a 5k run. The sun was shining and the bunnies tormented her the entire time. I listened to my playlist and lost myself in the rhythm of the music.

I made the little boys cereal, drank coffee, and read the paper with Dan. Mornings were much more calm since I didn’t have to be presentable or show up anywhere at 0830. I dropped them off at school and went to the grocery store. In the check out isle I stopped and thumbed through a magazine dedicated to Meghan and Harry’s wedding. I stood there unhurried as I looked at the pictures and read sentences here or there. I thought about buying it, but then thought maybe someone in my family would pick it up for me for Mother’s Day.

That unhurried moment, actually several moments, was something I had lost for years. Years. Since before I decided to run for office and lost. 

Painting did make me smile, as did running, picking up the house, making dinner, and reading magazines in the isle.

I hadn’t realized how much of me was gone, until I began to see myself again.

In the last few days, there has been a change in me. I have started dancing and singing again. I did it at dinner last night after our Breakthrough 307 meeting in Casper. Dan and I went to On the Border for queso and margaritas. There was awesome 80’s music and when Olivia Newton John started singing, I sang with her. Dan looked at me like I was crazy, but underneath that look I could see that he was pleasantly surprised. He hadn’t seen me sing in awhile. The Bengals, Bryan Adams, I sang and I danced in the booth and I laughed.

Today, while painting, I caught myself dancing with the paint roller and singing along to Castle on the Hill by Ed Sheeran.       

More and more people stopped by to check out the project like what we were doing with the building was something great and not just a lipstick job.

Today, both of our tenants on the other side came by to check out the progress. Our architect came by to look at the upstairs for lofts. He liked that we left the wood paneling. Dan came by to see how it looked. Jack came by to help, but I had ran out of white paint so he left disappointed. Mom came by with the little boys and brought me grey paint, not white. Oh well. We would pick up some more on the way home. A neighbor across the street came by to introduced himself and told me about their cleaning produces and supplies. He was going to tell his barber friend to come check the place out. His name was Nicco, the neighbor across the street. Just Nicco. Last names don’t matter when you are doing a renovation.

It was like I was in a different world. I was meeting new people, doing something completely different. My wrists hurt from so much painting. I was active, moving, stretching. Free yoga all day I told myself. The satisfaction from seeing the walls finished was exhilarating. I spilled way too much paint on the floor and only briefly worried if it would be hard to clean up. My phone was somewhere on the window sill with the ringer turned on yet it never made a sound. All of the emails and phone calls and texts had stopped. All of the noise of my failures and mistakes had stopped and while I was painting, all of the heartache we held as a family stopped too. I was only in charge of myself. The toughest decision I had to make in a day was if I should I paint a wall white or grey?
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I never wanted to stop painting.
           

This PBS special highlights aviation in Wyoming. The interview portion with myself and Director Panos, starts around minute 6 or 7. Just click the green to view the link.

One year ago today, the trajectory of my life changed. I lost the Cheyenne Mayoral election and the children’s museum lost its ballot initiative.. In a short and unpredictable 24 hour period, my future became my past. I was left with useless campaign material and a feeling of confusion, numbness, and pain. 

I forced myself to put on makeup, show up at work, and put one foot in front of another. I said thank you, cried, and ate too much. I hid. Losing was hard. Harder than I thought it would be. 

In the last year, I have hugged my family more, traveled, and have a new work family at WYDOT.  It took a while, but I have found balance in life and take care of myself by exercising regularly, eating well, and sleeping more. I found a new normal. My family and friends remain tremendous supporters in my life and continue to provide me unconditional love. I’m happy. 

And I’m thankful. I’m thankful for the experience, for the support, and for the opportunity to still do good things. I’m thankful that my family is healthy and my children are thriving. I’m thankful that I have time in my life for people and to work on my passions. Thank you to every one who has reached out to me over the year or asked me how I am doing. I can honestly say, I’m thriving. 

On this one year anniversary of my loss, I just wanted you all to know that I actually feel very much like a winner.

Cheyenne mayor candidate named state aeronautics director
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - A Cheyenne woman is the new director of Wyoming’s Aeronautics Division.
Amy Surdam is a nurse practitioner who owns urgent care facilities in Cheyenne and Laramie.
She’s also a lieutenant colonel in the Wyoming Army National Guard and founder of a children’s museum under development in Cheyenne.
Surdam ran unsuccessfully for Cheyenne mayor in 2016.
Her new job in the Wyoming Department of Transportation involves overseeing air service development. She also manages state-owned aircraft.
The Wyoming Tribune Eagle reports (http://bit.ly/2pm5uWO) Surdam is making $104,400 a year in her new role.

Article in today's Wyoming Tribune Eagle, Wyoming Business Reports, and several other publications around the State. 

Cheyenne’s Amy Surdam named state aeronautics administrator
By Becky Orr
CHEYENNE – The former director of a downtown Cheyenne improvement group is now focused on the skies above Wyoming.
Amy Surdam of Cheyenne is the new aeronautics administrator for the state Aeronautics Division, which is part of the Wyoming Department of Transportation.
 “The goal of the Aeronautics Division is how to restore and maintain rural air service in Wyoming,” she said.
Surdam previously was the executive director of the Cheyenne Downtown Development Authority, a group formed to revitalize and support downtown Cheyenne.
She also ran unsuccessfully for Cheyenne mayor in the 2016 election.
In her new job, she oversees air service development in the state, working with the Air Service Enhancement Program, and distributing state and federal money to develop airports through the Airport Improvement Program.
She manages the state-owned aircraft, which provides flights for the governor and other state officials on official state business. She also administers grants.
“When you think about air service and airports in Wyoming, they have an enormous economic impact for our state,” she said.
A 2013 economic impact study about aviation, for example, found about 12,000 jobs in Wyoming are related to or associated with aviation.
But air service faces challenges, she said. The Essential Air Service program provides federal money that currently helps two rural airports in Wyoming. But the program’s future is uncertain because President Donald Trump said he wants to eliminate it.
“We need to create a new, sustainable funding strategy for airports in the state,” Surdam said.
Working in aviation is part of her interest in creating and retaining the state’s workforce and helping Wyoming succeed, she said.
Surdam started the job March 1 and oversees 23 people. She was one of 56 people who applied, and she was selected from eight finalists that were interviewed by some members of the state Aeronautics Commission and WYDOT employees.
Her salary is $104,400, a year.
“Amy is a great leader and will bring those skills to our Aeronautics Division and agency,” WYDOT director Bill Panos saidFriday. “She also has a great ability to bring people together and is a great relationship builder.”
Dennis Byrne filled the position before her. He was promoted to chief financial officer for the Aeronautics Commission, according to Panos.
Surdam also is a lieutenant colonel in the Wyoming Army National Guard and is the founder of the future Children’s Museum of Cheyenne.
She grew up in Cheyenne, is a graduate of Cheyenne’s East High, and earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Wyoming in 1996 and a master’s degree in nursing in 2004.
She also became a nurse practitioner. Surdam and her husband, Dan, own Stitches, an urgent care center with facilities in Cheyenne and Laramie.