 Here's where to find Hack the Hood during Small Business Week! Monday, May 1st Growing Your Business - Digital Business Plan Tools Oakland City Hall, Hearing Room #3 1 – 3 p Presented by Centro Community Partners, Hack the Hood & Google Have you always wanted to start a small business? If you want to get started planning your business, join us! We will help you put your ideas down into a business planning app right on your phone or mobile device. We will walk you through key areas of the business planning process and provide helpful tips to get you started making your dream a reality. Sponsored by Centro Community Partners. Hack the Hood staff to look for: Mercedes & Fatimah Tuesday, May 2nd Learning from Experience: Oakland Retailer & Restaurant Resources Oakland City Council Chamber 9:30 – 10:30am Oakland is rich in Retailer & Restaurant experience. Gain some of it in this panel of experienced retail and restaurant entrepreneurs who will share their best practices in 2017, covering product mix, customer assessment, merchandising, marketing, social media, employee relations, accounting, etc. Hack the Hood staff to look for: Mercedes Oakland Developer RunwayTuesday, May 2nd, 10:30am - 12pm Oakland City Council Chamber In a fast-paced format, current Oakland developers will briefly present their mixed use development projects--under construction now--highlighting upcoming restaurant and retail space opportunities. Presentation will include project description, size range, timeline, desired tenant mix, tenant requirements. Goal is to inform retailers and restaurants of upcoming opportunities for expansion or startup. Projects covered may include those in Downtown, Broadway/Valdez, East Oakland, West Oakland, and North Oakland. Hack the Hood staff to look for: Felix Wednesday, May 3rdEast Oakland Community & Business Resource MarketplaceEast Oakland Business Connect Allen Temple Baptist Church, 8501 International Boulevard May 3rd, 11am - 3pm Small businesses and entrepreneurs are invited to come and learn about business development resource including free legal, marketing and financial resources to help you start or grow your business. Over 20 non-profit and business service organizations serving the East Oakland small businesses community will be there to share information, technical assistance and answer questions to help existing and new businesses be successful. Hack the Hood staff to look for: Mercedes & Felix Open event - no registration online Complimentary Working Fun Lunch: Marketing Resources for Artists & MakersOakland City Hall, Hearing Room 4 May 3rd, 12:15 – 1:30p An interactive discussion of existing and planned marketing opportunities for artists and makers in Oakland. Come learn marketing tips and opportunities available for creative businesses, weigh in on how the City can engage the creative community in its co-beneficial marketing and share your vision of best practices and advice with others. Be prepared to share events and opportunities you know about. Bring swag to share. Sponsored by the City of Oakland. Hack the Hood staff to look for: Fatimah Online Marketing Workshopby Oakland Digital with special guest Hack the Hood Location: East Oakland Business Connect Allen Temple Baptist Church, 8501 International Boulevard Wednesday, May 3rd . 2:15 pm – 3 pm Come and learn how to level up your business through design, social media, and passion. Workshop presented by Shaun Tai and Yudy Herrera from Oakland Digital. Hack the Hood staff to look for: Mercedes Open event - no registration online Wednesday, May 3rdFruitvale Business Resource FairFruitvale Transit Village (Plaza between International Boulevard & East 12th Street) 3401 E. 12th Street May 3, 12:00 pm - 6:30pm A Business Resource Fair of 10+ business technical assistance and financing providers which serve Fruitvale - East Oakland small businesses. Representatives will be there to share information and answer questions to help existing and new businesses be successful. The Main Street Launch Business Bus will be at the Business Resource Fair from Noon to 2 p.m. Stop by the Legal Services for Entrepreneurs table to sign up for a free one-on-one Business Legal Consultations for entrepreneurs with legal questions related to a start-up or existing business. Hack the Hood staff to look for: George & Fatimah Open event - no registration online Tech Tools for a Better BusinessFruitvale Transit Village (Plaza between International Boulevard & East 12th Street) 3401 E. 12th Street May 3, 3:00pm - 3:45pm Renaissance Center and ANA present business owners with information on technology tools, platforms and services to 1.) improve overall management and efficiency (e.g., use of automated human resources processes, cloud data storage systems) and 2.) improve financial management (e.g., assess profitability of products and services, improve business banking). Hack the Hood staff to look for: George & Fatimah Open event - no registration online Social Media & MarketingFruitvale Transit Village (Plaza between International Boulevard & East 12th Street) 3401 E. 12th Street May 3, 4:00pm - 4:45pm Presented by Oakland Digital, this session will teach business owners how to use real-time platforms required to create, share and exchange digital media with customers. Hack the Hood staff to look for: George & Fatimah Open event - no registration online Thursday, May 4thMain Street Launch Business BusThursday, May 4th, 10:30 a.m. – Noon Bancroft Avenue & MacArthur Boulevard-East Oakland Business Connect Eastmont Town Center Police Substation, 7200 Bancroft Avenue #2 9a-12p A Business Resource Fair of business technical assistance and financing providers which serve East Oakland small businesses. Representatives will be there to share information and answer questions to help existing and new businesses be successful. Hack the Hood staff to look for: Mercedes 21 Lessons of Successful EntrepreneursPresented by Urban Fire and Hack the Hood Thursday, May 4th, 1 – 3p West Oakland Business Connect Mandela Gateway Apartments Community Center, 1350 7th Street While learning the best practices of business is essential for running a successful business, why is it that more than 60 percent of new startups fail by the third year? In this workshop, participants will learn, then work in an interactive process to understand the underlying reasons that create a successful business. Based on the 40-year career of 19 startups and 20-year research by your facilitator, Boku Kodama, you'll learn the secrets and surprising answers to how anyone can build a profitable enterprise whether it's home-based or the next Pandora. Learn more about Urban Fire - Oakland at www.rencenter.org. Hack the Hood staff to look for: Mercedes Friday, May 5th Oakland Business Partners Resources Table at Oakland First FridayFirst Friday Festival KONO District, Telegraph Avenue between West Grand Avenue and 27th Street 5:00 – 9:30 pm Stop by and enjoy the celebration. Location of the Resources Table! Hack the Hood staff to look for: Mercedes & Fatimah No registration required East Oakland Building Healthy CommunitiesSaturday, May 6th from Tassafaronga Recreation Center 975 85th Ave, Oakland 12:30 - 4:00 pm You are invited to join us at the Community Gathering of East Oakland Building Healthy Communities! Spend part of your afternoon with other East Oakland youth, residents and community partners as we address our community's most pressing cultural, school and neighborhood challenges. We'll continue to go home with collective hope and strategies for building a healthier East Oakland. Hack the Hood staff to look for: Fatimah What is Hack the Hood Small Business Program? The Hack the Hood SMB Program is an opportunity for small business to partner with local youth, providing a real world client to a young person learning tech. In exchange for SMB time, they receive a free starter website designed by our Youth Developers.
This summer, HTH will build 40 websites for Oakland Small Business - everyone from individuals to non profits to for profits - are welcome to apply. Online applications are open May 1st - 31st. Small business website will be live September 1st. In between that time, SMB clients can expect to engage in a series of meetings, networking and learning events that will not only connect them to youth in their cities, but also to other micro entreprises.
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