Small Business Community Events
Check out these small business events including workshops, webinars, and networking. Would you like to see your event listed here? Contact us with the details!
The Portland Night Market showcases many unique businesses that call Portland home.
Portland Sunday Parkways vendors play a significant role in enhancing the event experience by offering a variety of goods and services.
Portland Sunday Parkways vendors play a significant role in enhancing the event experience by offering a variety of goods and services.
Portland Sunday Parkways vendors play a significant role in enhancing the event experience by offering a variety of goods and services.
El acceso al capital es una cuestión importante para muchos propietarios de pequeñas empresas. Únase a los asesores de Portland Small Business Hub y obtenga más información en esta sesión informativa.
This sixth module of an eight-part virtual Trademark Basics Boot Camp will focus on responding to office actions, the official letters that USPTO examining attorneys issue after reviewing your trademark application.
Building Your Website or E-Commerce Store is a 3-week series plus live website build with GoDaddy Coaching for Entrepreneurs. This FREE guided program is designed to help you to create and/or improve your website/ecommerce store for the ultimate customer experience, plan key site content, and build a successful digital presence.
Join this workshop for a deep dive where Travel Portland's Social Media Manager, Carmen Paradise, will plunge into the depths of social media marketing and promotion for small and medium businesses.
Energy Trust of Oregon has programs that can really help businesses’ bottom lines. If your business is in an existing building or you own your brick-and-mortar, there are incentive programs to apply to your business.
Are you interested in learning more about starting or stabilizing your small food business?
Join an information session hosted by Hacienda CDC's Empresarios program.
In part five of this eight-part recurring series, experts will discuss the parts of the claim, show examples of claim illustrations from issued U.S. patents, and help participants develop a better appreciation of how a patent examiner views a claim.
Is your workload overwhelming? Ready to streamline your operations? Discover how AI tools like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot can help your business. And you!
Join Attorney Lindy Laurence for a presentation and Q&A session where we discuss how AI can affect your business.
There are but three ways to make the jump to entrepreneurship: Start a business on your own, buy an existing business, or consider a franchise opportunity. This Learning Event addresses the pros and cons of each option.
Access to capital is a top issue for many small business owners. Join Portland Small Business Hub’s advisors and learn more at this informational session.
Thinking of starting a business? This (online) live session is a crash course in business basics: where to start, what to know, and what to be thinking about when starting a new business.
Pasos para formalizar el negocio; estructuras legales; marketing; precios; finanzas. No solo hablaremos de los pasos para registrar un negocio y del proceso para obtener las licencias necesarias.
This seventh module of our eight-part virtual Trademark Basics Boot Camp will focus on what happens after registration, including mandatory filings to keep your registration alive.
As a business owner, providing the opportunity for anyone to feel welcomed is imperative to your business’ success. To do this effectively, business owners need to understand how to support a diverse group of people. This workshop will cover foundational information to consider when infusing diversity, equity, and inclusion topics into your business.
Did you know that patents offer territorial rights, meaning that there is no such thing as an international or global patent? Learn how to help protect your intellectual property (IP) in foreign jurisdictions.
An improved business credit rating increases your ability to negotiate favorable terms and lower costs. Get all the facts on understanding and improving your Business Credit Rating.
Taught by the Accounting Advising Team from Livelihood NW, this is a great first step if you aren’t sure where to start when it comes to small business bookkeeping, or need to revisit the basics.
This final module of the Trademark Basics Boot Camp will provide a unique opportunity for you to “meet the trademark experts.”
Join Xcelerate, BUILT Oregon, and the Good Food Foundation on Tuesday, May 21 at 11 am for a FREE 90 minute virtual workshop. We'll discuss the challenges of farm-direct sourcing and uncover proven solutions that have helped seasoned F&B entrepreneurs realize efficiencies and scale their businesses.
Do you understand how business and personal credit affects you and your business and how to maximize it to your benefit?
Are you feeling stuck and overwhelmed? It's time to take action! Alex Batdorf, CEO and Founder of Get Sh!t Done is here to help you eliminate overwhelm and focus on what truly matters for your business growth.
Join other local women business owners and entrepreneurs who are seeking ways to grow and succeed in 2024. Lunch included.
The New Client Orientation is designed to quickly and succinctly give you the information you need to know to access the many services from the Oregon Small Business Development Center (SBDC).
You’ve registered your intellectual property. Now what? Join Attorney Joe Anderson for a presentation and Q&A session
This workshop will address key questions in hiring like: Why are you hiring and what are you looking for? How can you create a hiring process for candidates that is clear, engaging, and equitable? What can you do to ensure your top candidate says yes to the job?
Every business needs funds to start and grow. In this online webinar, you will learn what types of capital are available for each stage of business, specifically for the food and beverage industry as well as how to prepare and apply for funding.
Aprenda los requisitos y el proceso para obtener la licencia de limpieza en el estado de Oregon y aproveche para aprender de un profesional en el negocio de la limpieza quien dará consejos prácticos para hacer crecer su negocio.
This will be a Hybrid meeting both in-person at the OAME Center, 731 N. Hayden Meadows Dr. Portland, 97217, and on Zoom for those who cannot make it in person.