BBI Upcoming Events

BBI MONTHLY MEETING

  

I. Date: Thursday, December 12th

 II. Time: 8:30AM-10:00AM (Door open at 8:00AM)

III. Agenda:

• John Hopkins Applied Physics Lab Contracting - Learn about contracting at APL, which has a diversified portfolio of more than 600 programs, primarily Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, NASA, and NSA sponsors, as well as R&D.
• John Hopkins University Small Business Office and John Hopkins Economic Inclusion Initiative - Learn about contarcting and the University's policy "that Small and Small Disadvantaged Businesses be extended the maximum practical opportunity to compete for its material and service needs."
• BBI Phase IV Update - Learn about what the BBI has been accomplishing this year, how the BBI can assit your business, and the future direction of the program.
• Extreme Networking!

IV. Location: The Other Barn (5851 Robert Oliver Place, Columbia, MD 21045).

V. Cost: FREE and we encourage you to bring partners to learn more about the BBI.

BBI BROWN BAG

"10 Key Strategies for Guiding Your Company Through a Game-Changer"

I. Date:  Thursday, December 19th

II. Time: 12:00PM - 1:30PM

III. Presenter: Mr. Doug Howard is the President/CEO of Growth Team Strategies, a local consulting firm that provides financial and management consulting services to growing businesses, specializing in those that are preparing for or have experience a positive, game-changing opportunity. As a graduate of the Wharton School of Business, he has been providing small business accounting and consulting services since 1989. He formed BDG Entrepreneurial Services in 1998 with offices in Maryland, Virginia, Alabama and Arizona. He is the founder of Start-Up Carroll, which has helped several hundred businesses get started. With the launch of Growth Team Strategies, Doug is providing consulting for start-ups, those seeking financing, businesses struggling to get "Back on Track" and growing small businesses that want to create a custom, outsourced senior management team. Growth Team Strategies support high growth mode through a game-changer's approach.

 IV. Event: ATTENTION SMALL BUSINESS SEEKING A GROWTH STRATEGY:Some companies grow by steady incremental increase. Others seek or are presented with a game-changer which presents a unique set of opportunities and challenges. Growth Team Strategies specializes in providing consulting and outsourced services for small, growing companies that are seeking or have had a "game-changer". A "game-changer" is a business event that brings such significant and immediate growth that it fundamentally changes the operation of the business. And when it happens, it can put that small, growing company on the path toward great success or put it at the edge of the cliff of business disaster. The "game-changer" can come in many forms such as a first government contract, a purchase order from a large retail chain, a new distribution channel, garnering a new line of products from a supplier, launching a unique business model that completely changes the operation and others. The 10-keys presentation provides meaningful, usable information usable information that will benefit any business owner, but particularly those with game-changer opportunities.

V. Location: 6751 Columbia Gateway Drive, Columbia, MD 21046 , Room TBD

VI. Register: Brown Bags are open to the first 25 registered BBI partners. Register by emailing company, name, and title to kfew@howardcountymd.gov

 

VII. Cost: FREE. Water and snacks provided; please feel free to bring your own lunch.