West Vancouver entrepreneur's Indigenous business gets airtime on Dragons’ Den - North Shore News

The Den Family Social⁠(opens in a new window) is a Denver-based social club that brings together hospitality, community, work, and play to give parents a place where they can feel like themselves and their children are welcome too. The business grew from founder Chandler Lipe’s own transition into parenthood and her belief that parents deserve elevated, inspiring spaces built with their wellbeing in mind. As The Den began construction and pre-opening for a second location, Chandler turned to ChatGPT Work to help manage the increasing administrative load. Her small team now saves 10-15 hours a week and prepares licensing and grant applications in hours instead of days, giving them more capacity to grow while staying focused on the families they serve. “ChatGPT Work allows us to build the company we need before we have the size or resources of that company.”—Chandler Lipe, Founder and CEO, The DenTurning scattered information into an action planTo open their second location, The Den’s team had to operationalize their knowledge and context from the first.

If you can’t get to the golf course to chase birdies, a new Simcoe business has the next best thing. Brothers Cameron and Calvin Rogers-Wristen recently welcomed players to The Birdies Den at 275 Queensway West in Simcoe. (Jacob Robinson / Simcoe Reformer)

The couple's businesses have done more than $15 million in lifetime sales, and are looking to increase their retail footprint. They had a shoe-in before their foot was in the door.

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