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09/30/2025

💡 Got an AI idea? This is your shot to make it real.

Hawaiʻi businesses are invited to pitch for a chance to win $25,000 in services to launch their vision. 🚀

✅ Applications are open now — don’t wait.
👉 Apply here: https://tinyurl.com/5b6p7y6t

Add Aloha is a Shaka session designed for small businesses that want improve relationships, team morale, customer servic...
02/10/2025

Add Aloha is a Shaka session designed for small businesses that want improve relationships, team morale, customer service, communications, and their story. This interactive workshop is a unique approach to small business Hawai’i style that combines Shaka values that apply to any project or group.

To gain the most from this workshop, it is recommended that participants view the award-winning documentary, “Shaka-A Story of Aloha.” A free viewing is available on January 31, 2025 (separate registration via HISBDC.org/events is required).

Add Aloha is part of the Shaka Project small business collaboration with ID8.org, First Foundation Bank, and Hawai’i SBDC. It is recommended for small business owners who want to instill exceptional customer service, cohesive teamwork, and accountability to grow their business as one Shaka Team!

Register here: https://clients.hisbdc.org/workshop.aspx?ekey=4450006

Create with Aloha is designed to help small businesses grow. It is a Shaka session to evaluate your creative style, enha...
02/10/2025

Create with Aloha is designed to help small businesses grow. It is a Shaka session to evaluate your creative style, enhance your team’s creativity, and create sustainable business solutions with Aloha. It’s a unique approach to design-thinking Hawai’i style that combines Shaka values from the documentary, “Shaka, A Story of Aloha” with the VIBE Creative Process.

To gain the most from this workshop, it is recommended that participants view the award-winning documentary, “Shaka-A Story of Aloha.” A free viewing is available on January 31, 2025 (separate registration via HISBDC.org/events is required).

This in-person workshop is part of the Shaka Project small business collaboration with ID8.org, First Foundation Bank, and HISBDC. It is recommended for small business owners want to build a cohesive leadership team with diverse styles and creativity to grow their business as one Shaka Team!

Regisiter here: https://clients.hisbdc.org/workshop.aspx?ekey=4440023

UPDATE: Our guest speaker from the GSA office is not available to join us on February 19. We will schedule another webin...
02/07/2025

UPDATE: Our guest speaker from the GSA office is not available to join us on February 19. We will schedule another webinar with the GSA office in the future. This webinar will be presented by Terry Oyama, Senior Business Advisor, Hawaii Small Business Development Center (HISBDC). 

Terry is an SBA 8(a) graduate and mentor, with over two decades of expertise as a small business owner, public speaker, trainer, with actual federal government contract experience. Prior to starting his company, Terry was a Contract Specialist for the GSA’s Technology Services Group. He will share helpful tips and personal experiences for small businesses who are thinking about doing business with the federal government, including:

* Why Work With the Federal Government?
* Where Do I Begin?
* Strategies for Getting Awards
* Do You Know Who Your Customer is? (You Have 2!)
* Cyber Requirements

Terry will also include his experience and best practices on what to be aware of once you are awarded a contract, invoicing, and payment process.

Register here: https://clients.hisbdc.org/workshop.aspx?ekey=4450008

For the past twenty-nine years Lori has been a Small Business Specialist for the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Busin...
01/27/2025

For the past twenty-nine years Lori has been a Small Business Specialist for the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization for the GSA. She oversees the small business program and serves as a Small Business Advocate for all small, small, disadvantaged business, woman owned small business, HUBZone, veteran owned, and service-disabled veteran owned small businesses. Lori is one of GSA’s lead instructors on how to become successful Government contractors throughout Arizona, California, Nevada and Hawaii (Pacific Rim Region). She helps promote increased access to GSA’s nationwide procurement opportunities by working with GSA’s Acquisition Workforce. Lori is also a member of the U.S. Department of Defense Western Regional Council.

The U.S. General Services Administration’s Regional Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) will present an informative online webinar. The Topics include:

· Public Buildings Service (PBS),
· Federal Acquisition Service (FAS),
· GSA’s Forecast of Contracting Opportunities,
· Subcontracting,
· Marketing your products and services to GSA,
· GSA’s Multiple Award Schedules (MAS) Program, and additional resources.

Planning for the New Year? Sign up for our upcoming Starting a Business in Hawaii Webinars in 2025 form 10:00 AM to 12:0...
12/18/2024

Planning for the New Year? Sign up for our upcoming Starting a Business in Hawaii Webinars in 2025 form 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM:
03/04/2025
05/06/2025
08/05/2025
10/23/2025

Thank you to  for these great small business Saturday November 30th kits !
11/07/2024

Thank you to for these great small business Saturday November 30th kits !

With our Senior Business Advisor, Larry Nagayama, at our lin person seminar, Demystifying Government Contracting for Sma...
10/17/2024

With our Senior Business Advisor, Larry Nagayama, at our lin person seminar, Demystifying Government Contracting for Small Business

With our Senior Business Advisor, Dennis Wong at the Hawaii Small Business Fair!
09/28/2024

With our Senior Business Advisor, Dennis Wong at the Hawaii Small Business Fair!

Our Business Advisor, Claire Doi, will be Moderating/ speaking at Strategies for Growing and Scaling the Healthcare Prac...
09/07/2024

Our Business Advisor, Claire Doi, will be Moderating/ speaking at Strategies for Growing and Scaling the Healthcare Practices in Hawaii!

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