CO.STARTERS®

How To Stay Calm and Productive
2020-05-06

Straight Talk with Starters
2020-05-06 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
We will get through this, and we will get through it together. If you are thinking through how to adapt your venture for these changing times, we are here for you.
Join CO.STARTERS for our weekly Straight Talk with Starters, a time for entrepreneurs to come together to support each other and brainstorm ideas for moving forward.
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Navigating Long-Term Uncertainty and the Aftermath of Disruption
2020-05-07

Reopening your business: Things you may not have considered
2020-05-08 14:00 - 15:00
Join Small Business Majority and Retail Smart Guys for a free, interactive webinar to assist in planning the reopening of your business. When brick-and-mortar businesses begin to reopen, it won’t be business as usual. This webinar will guide you through the new factors you’ll need to consider to ensure your business can operate safely and profitably.

Finding a Story to Share with Folkways CDC (free)
2020-05-11 19:00 - 20:00
Kaleidoscope Virtual Workshop Part 1

The 4 Key Things Small Business Owners Should Be Focused On Right Now
2020-05-12 14:00 - 15:00
These are unprecedented times for business owners. The goal right now should be all about how we come out the other side of this crisis a smarter, stronger and more prepared business than we were before. The key is to keep things simple.
In this webinar, presented by Director of Business Market Development Brian Trzcinski, we will focus on the four areas of your business you should be focused on right now, to successfully traverse through these turbulent times:

Leadership
Employees
Operations
Cash flow

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COVID-19 Considerations for Personal Financial Planning
2020-05-13 15:00
What personal financial planning strategies should you be considering during COVID-19 market conditions? Join Bob Lamb and Patricia Quintana-Perron for a 30-minute discussion on planning opportunities. These BKD Trusted Advisors™ will highlight planning opportunities to consider with the down economy and historically low interest rates.

Essential PR Tools and Tactics - Elevate the Visibility of Your Business While Being Sheltered in Place
2020-05-14 11:00 - 12:00
Promoting your business during the coronavirus outbreak presents unique opportunities. New technologies, subscriber lists, social media and strong digital connections are more important than ever, and more powerful than ever before.
Attend this session, presented by PR expert Patricia Maldanado, where we’ll provide the tools and steps you can take to make sure your business remains visible to your customers, potential customers, and even the media. Now more than ever, the steps you take to promote your company, its work and products plays an essential role in ensuring its relevance and survivial.
Join us for this important webinar that will help you elevate the visibility of your business. We’ve extended the length of this webinar to allow for more time for questions around this topic.

Main Street Now Conference - CANCELLED
2020-05-18 - 2020-05-20
Network, Find Solutions, and Get Inspired
Join us May 18 – 20, 2020 in Dallas, Texas, for Main Street Now, the largest national conference of local leaders working to advance economic opportunity in downtowns and commercial districts. Network with peers from across the country, find solutions to common problems, and discover innovative techniques and tools to help your community to thrive. Get inspired by Dallas and surrounding Main Street communities as you learn from their revitalization successes and challenges.

UVA Wise Economic Forum
2020-05-20
The SWVA Economic Forum engages participants through a shared vision of regional collaboration, growth and innovation for all of Southwest Virginia. The Forum has become a central gathering place for the region to discuss new ideas and synergies to build Southwest Virginia’s future. The theme for this year’s forum is PLACE and will celebrate the strengths, talents, innovation and uniqueness of the region.

Pivot your Positioning for a Post-Coronavirus World
2020-05-20 11:00 - 12:30
Park Howell, the founder of the Business of Story, will prepare you to evolve your purpose-driven positioning statement for this new world.

Main Street America: State of the Industry
2020-05-20 13:00 - 14:00
MSA Presents: An expert panel on the current landscape for main street associations with a focus on events and farmers markets: Creating a Covid-19 Preparedness Plan, Stakeholder Communication, Sponsorships, Ticketing, and other urgent industry topics. We’ll discuss how to mitigate damage now, and ways to prepare your events organization to bounce back from the Coronavirus epidemic.

Reenvisioning Main Street in The Time of Coronavirus
2020-05-21 14:00 - 16:00
As social distancing becomes the norm across the East End how will Main Streets look this summer? Wider sidewalks? New traffic and parking patterns?

Rebuild Program | UWA
2020-05-21 16:00 - 18:30
As small businesses navigate the COVID-19 crisis, the CO.STARTERS Rebuild program provides entrepreneurs with a practical pathway and trusted tools to approach the market in new way, one step at a time.

Rebuild Program | Bel Air Downtown Alliance
2020-05-26 10:00 - 12:30
The CO.STARTERS Rebuild program is presented in Bel Air, MD by Bel Air Downtown Alliance.

Straight Talk with Starters
2020-05-27 14:00 - 15:00 | Virtual, United States
We will get through this, and we will get through it together. If you are thinking through how to adapt your venture for these changing times, we are here for you. Join CO.STARTERS for Straight Talk with Starters, a time for entrepreneurs to come together to support each other and brainstorm ideas for moving forward.
This week, join us for a virtual Q&A with Dane Johnson from the Nice Center on how to get your business online and continue to serve and engage with customers during social distancing. This conversation is free and open to anyone who wants to learn more about going online.
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Rebuild Program | Shenandoah Valley
2020-06-01 17:30 - 20:00

NOMCON
2020-06-03 - 2020-06-06 | Virtual, United States
A national gathering of leaders representing the breadth of the maker movement, the Nation of Makers Conference (“NOMCON”) aims to spark and increase connections across sectors, generate robust collaborations, and promote the growth of an inclusive Nation of Makers. A central goal of the event is to promote relationship-building across lines of regular conversation, generating an increased sense of a connected community throughout the entire ecosystem of maker-supporting entities. Please join us! Click here for pre-conference tours, fun community events, dynamic keynote speakers, and engaging programs.

EntreFest
2020-06-04 - 2020-06-05 | Virtual, United States
EntreFEST is a two-day conference, celebrating the spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation where professionals at every level can come together, share ideas, and own their success. The EntreFEST organizing team believes that the best things happen when business leaders are able to collide and collaborate. That’s why we have speakers from a broad scope of sectors and industries.

Refocus Workshop (Nationwide)
2020-06-04 15:00 - 17:00 | Virtual, United States
Go back to the basics to save your business.

New offering from CO.STARTERS:

Join a two–hour virtual workshop that will help you find the focus and clarity you need to shift your mindset and find a new way forward. If you feel stuck, join us to identify your best next steps together.
In this workshop you will:

Determine immediate next steps needed to stabilize
Re-examine your venture using the CO.STARTERS Canvas
Strategize how to better solve your customers’ changing needs
Learn how to adapt or refine your business model

Free (a $75 value)
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Business Owner Highlight: Pivoting and Giving Back during a Pandemic
2020-06-10 08:00 - 17:00 | Virtual
Hear the journey of this firm’s successful pivot to E-Commerce offering during COVID-19

Business Support for Childcare Providers
2020-06-10 11:30 - 13:00 | Virtual
Webinar 3: Marketing: Positively Differentiating your Child Care Business in a COVID-19 World
• Childcare Platforms
• Community Networks and Entrepreneurial Service Providers
• Effectively Conveying your Public Health-Conscious Differentiators

Reopening Your Restaurant/Bar/Cafe: A Post COVID-19 Survival Guide
2020-06-10 14:00 - 15:00 | Virtual
This webinar will be specifically targeted at small, independent restaurants, bars and cafes in Queens. It will detail safety, sanitation and social distancing guidelines for reopening along with business strategies for small food service operators returning to the market after the stay-at-home restrictions are lifted. The webinar will be accompanied by a detailed activation guide with step-by-step instructions on developing additional revenue streams for struggling small operators.

Online Business Basics During an Economic Disruption - Webinar
2020-06-10 14:00 - 16:00 | virtual
This offering will provide current and future business owners a framework for creating a marketing strategy in a growing online marketplace. Participants will learn what information is needed to successfully choose marketing tools for their brand and create a strong online business model.
Follow this link to register for Webinar

OHUB 365
2020-06-15 20:00 - 21:00 | Virtual
For 7+ years, OHUB has been leveling up a community of intentional, innovative and ambitious technologists, professionals, entrepreneurs, investors and ecosystem builders on their journey into the future of work, startup ecosystem, fourth industrial revolution and beyond as a path to shared prosperity and multi-generational wealth creation with no reliance on pre-existing multi-generational wealth.
Starting April 1, OHUB is launching OHUB365, a daily curated interactive webinar series featuring OHUB’s ecosystem of skills, hiring, startup, entrepreneurship support, financial literacy, investor, health, wellness & aspirational partners.
Our hour-long interactive webinars will take place daily at 8pm EST.

How Female Founders Can Innovate and Disrupt the World of Business
2020-06-16 11:00 - 12:00 | Virtual
The world of business is wide open to everyone who has an internet connection and the bravado to take it on.
In this webinar, four exceptional women entrepreneurs Laurel Delaney, Betsy Mikesell, Angie White and Dr. Sonat Birnecker Hart will provide insights for women who want to innovate and disrupt the world of business – to grow faster, stronger, and soar globally for a better tomorrow.
Join this webinar to learn:

How to pivot a business in a crisis
Why women rule in the global marketplace
How to follow your passion and turn a family business into a global powerhouse
What a Kickstarter campaign can do and why is it important to consider
Who might be your next best partner in business
How setting up an ecommerce platform can take a business global
Why good design makes a strong first impression and establishing patents safeguards your invention

Refocus Workshop | Cowork Columbia
2020-06-18 15:00 - 17:00 | Virtual
This two–hour virtual workshop presented by CO.STARTERS and Cowork Columbia will help you find the focus and clarity you need to shift your mindset and find a new way forward.
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Juneteenth 4.0 Celebration
2020-06-19 13:00 - 16:00 | Virtual
OHUB, ThePlug and Living Cities Join Forces For Juneteenth 4.0, Friday, June 19. 2020. 1P – 4P ET.

Rebuild Program | June Open Cohort (Nationwide)
2020-06-22 18:00 - 20:30 | Virtual, United States
As small businesses navigate the COVID-19 crisis, the CO.STARTERS Rebuild program provides entrepreneurs with a practical pathway and trusted tools to approach the market in new way, one step at a time.
This cross-community cohort is open to applicants from any region.
Mondays 6:00–9:00 pm Eastern for 10 weeks.
APPLICATIONS CLOSED
Apply for the next open cohort launching July 21.
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ICIBI34
2020-06-23 - 2020-06-25 | Virtual, United States
The annual ICBI has gone virtual and registration is now open! They’ve put together a 100% virtual conference featuring AI-powered matchmaking and peer-based education for entrepreneurship center professionals and stakeholders, June 23-25, 2020. Register today!
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