Are You Ready?

Do you have good ideas that would take your business to the next level but don’t know where to find help to implement them? How can you minimize the risks and increase the probability of success in your business? Do you have dreams of starting your own business but don’t know where to begin? Continue reading

Standing Room Only at CBI Pitch Session

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L to R: Holly Hanson-Director CBI, Justin Sidwell, Peter Bilodeau, Marie Fey, Diane Morey-Owner A to Z Printing and Facilitator of CO.STARTERS, Dave Clark-A to Z Printing and CO.STARTERS Mentor

Community supporters joined family and friends of the graduates of the Cumberland Business Incubator’s inaugural CO.STARTERS program to celebrate their work and hear them pitch their business ideas.  The CO.STARTERS group met once a week for 9 weeks as they validated their business concepts.

Graduates of the program that participated in the pitch presentation were: Continue reading

The Power of Accountability

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Personally as the entrepreneur in residence and business coach at the CBI, and our volunteer CBI business mentors, our job is to help business owners develop bigger better businesses.  If you are actively trying to build your company, then you could benefit by looking for an advisor/coach/mentor to help you.

What can an advisor/coach/mentor help you do? Continue reading

Don’t Miss These…

STEM

Labville is a STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering and Math – group for all ages.  The goal is to highlight a topic each month and introduce it to the public at a level we can all understand.  August will be 3D Scanning that can lead directly to 3D printing or other means to create the model outside of the computer.  Continue reading