Type of Event: Education

If you are a small business owner and need to tackle your bookkeeping, Livelihood NW is here to help! We can assist you with set-up and training of QuickBooks Online. Our experienced Professional Accounting Advisor will be providing a hands-on approach to this training.

➡️ Quickbooks online training series: 5 weekly group sessions 1:1 assistance with questions.

📚 SKILLS YOU’LL LEARN
– Chart of accounts customization
– Connecting bank and merchant service accounts
– Recording sales, cost of goods sold, and expenses
– Bank statement reconciliation
Running and utilizing financial reports
– You will end the course with a customized QuickBooks online account based on your business needs, and the basic skills to do your books.

Schedule an assessment with our Accounting Team to confirm readiness, ask questions, and check if a sponsor is available to subsidize your fee.

💻 VIRTUAL
🎟️ $100 (with subsidy)
$725.00 (unsubsidized cost)
🗓 NEXT SERIES BEGINS MONDAY FEBRUARY 10, 2025 (5-week series)
⏰ 4-6 PM

Craft a Compelling Startup Story in 60 Minutes

Is your startup failing to connect with investors?
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If investors seem interested but never follow up…
If you struggle to clearly explain your complex solution in a way that excites others…
If you know your idea has potential but can’t seem to get others to see your vision…
You’re not alone—and there’s a solution.
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In this free, results-driven 60-minute workshop, you’ll develop a strategic pitch framework that transforms your startup story into a compelling narrative that opens doors (and wallets).

Join Us:
March 12, 2025 | 10 AM Pacific Time

Perfect for:

Early-stage founders preparing for fundraising
Startups that have pitched without success
Technical founders struggling to communicate their vision
Companies developing new products or entering new markets
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What You’ll Get:

✓ Pitch Assessment Tool – Identify the critical elements your current pitch is missing

✓ Strategic Framework – The essential pitch structure that captures attention in the first 30 seconds

✓ Value Proposition Template – Define your “one thing” that makes investors want to learn more

✓ Live Transformation – Watch as we transform real pitches in real-time (yours could be next!)

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Many people overlook a crucial element behind some of the most magnetic brands like Rolex, Red Bull, Aston Martin, Spanx, Virgin, and Canva. They aren’t popular because of clever marketing, but because their marketing is deeply inspired by a deep conviction that guides every decision they make. Each of us holds this inside—an innate truth akin to a personal melody. Successful brands aren’t the ones that simply sell the most but the ones that spread their unique “music” relentlessly as an unchangeable and magnetizing mission. Their music strikes a chord in their customers and becomes too irresistible to pass up, and so they buy from them and even become loyal advocates. This workshop will explore through first-hand experience and lived personal examples how such businesses find, nurture, and convey their music, how they use it to inspire their communication, how it impacts their entire ecosystem and what happens when they fail.Join branding expert Olivier Egli for a transformative workshop on building a magnetic brand.

EDCO’s Central Oregon PubTalk is a happy hour aimed at bringing together different facets of the business community in one place to network, share ideas and further local businesses. Tickets include one drink ticket and snacks provided by Worthy Brewing.
4:30 pm Networking | 5:30 pm Program

Program Agenda:
Company Pitch: Niche and Leads

Tristan Burke, Co-CEO and Co-Founder

Company Update: Health Elements AI

Jeff LeBrun, CEO

Company Pitch: V4 Final Inc.

Matti Neustadt, CEO and Founder

Panel: Emerging AI Innovation in Central Oregon

Tristan Burke, Jeff LeBrun, Matti Neustadt

We look forward to seeing you at 4:30 PM on March 20th at Worthy Brewing Company, 495 NE Bellevue Dr, Bend, OR 97701.

Questions? Contact Megan Kantrim at EDCO: megan@edcoinfo.com or 541-388-3236 x3.

💰 Learning Session — Personal Finance for Entrepreneurs

ℹ️ Want to achieve personal financial independence, and manage your credit, debit, savings, and retirement planning as a business owner? In this practical personal finance class presented by a guest speaker from Financial Beginnings, you’ll learn key strategies for achieving a strong personal finance foundation from which to grow your business.

🎤 Guest Speaker from Financial Beginnings

🗓 Thursday, March 27th, 2025 | 4pm – 6pm | Live Virtual (Zoom) | English

🎟 $25 general public
🎟 $5 Oregon Women’s Business Center members. Log in and register at livelihoodnw.org/owbc

* The Oregon Women’s Business Center at Livelihood NW is funded in part through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration.

* All SBA programs and services are extended to the public on a nondiscriminatory basis. Reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities will be made if requested at least two weeks in advance of this event. Contact Tracy Puhl, owbc@livelihoodnw.org

Got a great tech idea? JOIN OUR INCUBATOR!

Designed for tech innovators at many points in their product journey, the newly launched “20ideation” tech innovation incubator program by Eugene-based digital product agency Twenty Ideas is a 6-month selective program combining the best of our product strategy, design, and development expertise with unique networking and mentorship opportunities to kick innovators’ product and business development into overdrive.

With three Partnership Tiers priced to project scale, participating companies will unlock product growth while retaining full ownership of their product and cap table. Remote-first and open to innovators anywhere in the US.

SPACE IS LIMITED in each tier, so APPLY BY MARCH 30 for a chance to win a spot!

Our Spring/Summer ’25 cycle kicks off April 7 and closes with an investor-packed Demo Day event in early October.

Click “Register” to check out the 20ideation page to learn more and apply (or visit >> https://twentyideas.com/20ideation )

(Know someone who might be right for 20ideation? Spread the word in your network to get the word out!)