Crowdfunding Your Loan: KIVA Launch
Learn how to leverage your creative and personal capital with KIVA to crowdfund your small business loan. BDCC was recently approved to be a KIVA trustee and we will help…
Market Segmentation
Market segmentation is the process of dividing the population into subsets based on identifiable homogenous traits to develop an appropriate strategy to target each of them. It is beyond ad…
Business Transitions: Build Your Team
Sellers: What to Expect You’ve owned your business for many years and it’s provided you with a good quality of life. Perhaps you’ve raised a family, or perhaps it was…
Creating a Mission Statement
In our previous blog we talked about how to identify a business idea. In this week’s blog we will discuss the next step in the process, creating mission statements. What…
Draper Competition Student Entrepreneurs Urged to Start-up in SoVermont
Northampton, MA April 5, 2019 The Draper Competition for Collegiate Women Entrepreneurs helps undergraduate women seeking access to entrepreneurship opportunities, capital and networks. This year more than $100,000 in cash…
Landmark Students Visit BDCC Cotton Mill Entrepreneurs
Each semester students of entrepreneurship from Landmark College, under the leadership of Professor Tamara Stenn, visit the BDCC's Cotton Mill to learn first-hand from local business people. On March 28th…
Six-hour Build-a-Website Workshop
Fully Design and Launch a Squarespace website Instructor: Bob Lawson, founder of Sustainable Digital New online software allows you to design and launch a website without any technical background. This…
INSTIG8 Workshop: How To Create Your Own Small Business Website
REGISTER In an effort to help small businesses navigate the changing landscape of technology, this INSTIG8 sponsored informational workshop will help you understand one potential resource. Websites for small businesses…
BDCC Staff Profile: RT Hamilton Brown
BDCC Staff Member Name: RT Brown Position Title: Windham County Economic Development Program (WCEDP) Project Manager Program(s): WCEDP, Instig8 Where were you born? Indianapolis, IN Where do you currently live?…
Instig8ing Shared Leadership
On Thursday, July 21st, INSTIG8 hosted Global Round Table Leadership (GRTL at http://globalroundtableleadership.com) for a workshop on Shared Leadership for Entrepreneurs. What a great evening! Lori Hanau and Jodi Clark facilitated…