Free monthly seminars with experts addressing a range of topics to empower business owners.
The events and topics below are designed to provide an honest forum for business owners and entrepreneurs to obtain knowledge, evaluate their options and understand what is needed to achieve their goals in a variety of topics. Our guests obtain value from experts - not a sales pitches from service providers.
Join Us: Our events are held every other Wednesday and free to the public.
- (1) Review upcoming events, topics and speakers. Click here to review the event schedule.
- (2) RSVP - Event are limited to the first 25 individuals to ensure a personal atmosphere.

| Date | Time | Topic |
| March 24th 2010 | 5:30 pm | Finance & Grow Your Business During a Recession |
| TBD | 5:30 pm | How to Work Less While Increasing Revenue |
| TBD | 5:30 pm | When and How To Cash Out |
| TBD | 5:30 pm | Options for Business Owners In Crisis |
- WHERE: Mission Valley Business Center Conference Room, 3443 Camino Del Rio South, San Diego, CA 92108
- RSVP: Space is limited to the first 25 individuals to ensure a personal atmosphere. Click on the date you are interested in to RSVP or send us an email clicking here.
Finance & Grow Your business During A Recession:
Financing your business during a recession: Myths, Reality & Solutions for startup and midsize businesses looking to raise funds.
This presentation is not a sales pitch or direct funding source - The seminar and topics are designed to provide an honest forum for business owners and entrepreneurs to evaluate their options and understand what is needed to achieve their funding needs. Aaron Sadock, CEO and Co-Founder of Panakos Partners, will provide a unique prospective for Entrepreneurs and Business owners looking to start or grow their businesses. Mr. Sadock has experience in both raising capital for numerous companies and working at a San Diego-based Private Equity Firm. The topics covered will be tailored to individual funding needs and the stage of their business.
Note: This event is not a sales pitch or direct funding source - The seminar and topics are designed for business owners and entrepreneurs to evaluate their options and understand what is needed to achieve their funding goals.
How to grow your business: Using business savvy to succeed in the New Economy: A How-to!
This presentation will outline innovative marketing tools, successful cost-cutting methods and add credence to the adage, “always be prepared”…. Participants will walk away with concrete ideas for their businesses and personal productivity that will help them succeed and profit in the 2010 economy. Christine McDannell, a serial entrepreneur, founder of Cleanology and Adopt a Christmas Tree and SBA’s 2009 Businessperson of the Year, shares her strategies and experience over the last 18 months, illustrating that with some foresight, courage, innovation and focus, you can prosper in a down economy and actually grow your bottom line.
Note: This presentation will outline innovative marketing tools, successful cost-cutting methods and add credence to the adage, always be prepared…. Participants will walk away with concrete ideas for their businesses and personal productivity that will help them succeed and profit in the 2010 economy.
Reliable/Accurate Bookkeeping and Accounting: Tools & tips on how to create a financial window of your business.
Your books are the heart beat of your business. If you cannot monitor the heart beat (financial reports) of your business due to poor bookkeeping, then you are unable to know what your business has done or what needs to be done. Mr. Flint, President at CTM Enterprises, will review the challenges and solutions faced by many business owners in two main categories. (1) Bookkeeping and its essentialness to the livelihood of your business and (2) the accounting systems needed to allow for an accurate financial picture of your business.
- When: Wednesday, March 24th, 2010, 5:30 - 6:30 pm
- Where: Mission Valley Business Center Conference Room, 3443 Camino Del Rio South, San Diego, CA 92108.
- RSVP: Space is limited to the first 25 individuals to ensure a personal atmosphere, click here to sign up.
How to work less while increasing revenue: (TBD)
Tools and tips for professionals, consultants and small business owners.
The seminar will address the challenges and solutions faced in two main categories. (1) The infrastructure and marketing needed to attract more clients and (2) the systems and tools to expand to be able to handle the volume more profitably. The topics covered will provide objective review FREE programs, services, tools and resources currently available to help professionals and consultants generate more revenue and work less while increasing the value for your clients.
- When: TBD
- Where: Mission Valley Business Center Conference Room, 3443 Camino Del Rio South, San Diego, CA 92108.
- RSVP: Space is limited to the first 25 individuals to ensure a personal atmosphere, click here to sign up.
When and How To Cash Out: (March 31st)
Learn whats needed to prepare and implement your exit strategy.
The seminar is hosted by Panakos Partners and serial entrepreneurs, investors and business brokers. This combined experience and prism of prospective for business owners and startups the information needed to increase the value of their business, steps needed to expedite their exit strategy and a honest forum to evaluate the options and hurtles faced. Topics will be covered based on the the stage of a company and types of exit strategies.
- When: TBD
- Where: Mission Valley Business Center Conference Room, 3443 Camino Del Rio South, San Diego, CA 92108.
- RSVP: Space is limited to the first 25 individuals to ensure a personal atmosphere, click here to sign up.
Options for business owners in crisis: (TBD)
Bankruptcy, Non-Judicial Liquidation, Sale and Financing are just a few of the many options business owners have.
Crisis - depends on how you deal with it. You may be able to turn your company around, cash out or wind down in a manner that protects your family and employees. Panakos Partners and experts with decades of experience in each area is providing an open forum for business owners looking to understand their options.
- When: TBD
- Where: Mission Valley Business Center Conference Room, 3443 Camino Del Rio South, San Diego, CA 92108.
- RSVP: Space is limited to the first 25 individuals to ensure a personal atmosphere, click here to sign up.