Business Beat: Brightworks Brewery Announces Grand Opening July 4

Brightworks Brewing Celebrates Grand Opening July 4th
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SBDC Completes 3-Part Startup Essentials Series at CenterFuse
Mason Small Business Development Center, in partnership with CenterFuse, recently hosted 25 individuals for a no-cost, 3-part workshop series intended to help them hone their business concept and accelerate growth. The series launched with a deep dive on value proposition design, graduating into marketing basics, and completing with funding essentials for sustained growth.
When reflecting on the series, SBDC Coach George Siragusa remarked that the second Tuesday workshops unveiled a dynamic conversation around the capability of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to create draft digital marketing content in a cost-effective manner for small businesses. Led by SBDC’s Subohd Nayar and Hussain Shah, the forum opened up practical opportunities for entrepreneurs that were previously unavailable in previous generations without such technology. SBDC would like to explore more of these timely topics in future workshops.
The Department strongly encourages Manassas small businesses and startups to check out the many low-cost or free resources available through Mason SBDC, CenterFuse, and affiliated networking groups like One Million Cups. The SBDC event lineup may be found here.

City of Manassas is seeking participants for the annual Workforce Development Survey. This information is critical to developing and maintaining a robust talent pipeline in the City. Please take the short (5-question, multiple choice) survey here: surveymonkey.com/r/2024WorkforceSurvey.
Ten respondents who meet the July 15, 2024 deadline will be randomly selected to win a $25 HEART BEAT gift card!


