Entrepreneurial Corner

BiggsKofford has renovated our electronic news! Formally known as Take 10, our Entrepreneurial Corner feature will cover pertinent and up-to-date subjects relevant to your business. From tax law updates to event information, keep an eye open for our new featured articles! If you have questions or article suggestions, email Jenn, our Public Relations Coordinator, here.

Enterprise Edge

After lots of thought, BiggsKofford has decided re-brand our Entrepreneurial Corner event series. Our new series, Enterprise Edge, will cover hot topics that are significant to your business. These presentations will discuss community, state, and nationwide issues relevant to business owners, executives and entrepreneurs. We want to ensure that our topics are both beneficial and worthy of your precious time. Our new program will take place a few times throughout the year, rather than on a monthly basis. Stay tuned for our first event announcement! If you have questions or topic suggestions, email Jenn, our Public Relations Coordinator, here. Stay tuned for our first event announcement!

Cyber Security 

How to Protect Your Organization from Cyber Threats

Guest Speakers                                                                                  Todd Morris           Jill Webb                                           Vice President       Vice President                                            CB Insurance        CB Insurance

In case you missed last week’s breakfast on ‘Implementing Obamacare’, here are the handouts.

It was presented by Jeff Ahrendsen and George Martin, both Senior Vice Presidents with HUB International.  If you have any questions, please e-mail them by clicking their name above or call (719) 884-0700.

This morning’s Entrepreneurial Corner covered marketing vs. branding!

Here is a tool to assess how your company behaves when it comes to brand, as well as another handout.  To get help filling in the blanks in the handout or your company’s branding, feel free to speak directly with this morning’s presenter, Suzanne Tulien, at suzanne@brandascension.com.

If you would like to be included in these events in the future, e-mail Stephanie Johnson at sjohnson@biggskofford.com.

Did you miss Fred Crowley’s presentation on the local economy last week?  Check out his presentation here!

Have you signed up for the Southern Colorado Economic Forum? Learn more here.

Ownership Thinking, a Special Workshop for Middle Market Owners

Meet the Speaker Brad Hams is the author to the recently-published book Ownership Thinking™.  In this book, he vividly portrays the way companies can become Top Quartile performer. The book and business model aim “to end a culture of entitlement and replace it with accountability, purpose and profit in companies.” Through Brad’s expertise, he has helped over 1,000 companies implement this management system. With today’s workforce, creating a profitable culture of accountability can be challenging. Join us as we discuss: Ways to end the entitlement mentality and get your employees to think and act like a business owner How to identify your company’s key operational and financial indicators to build scoreboards for your team Create self-funded incentive plans that clearly align employees’ behavior to the organization’s objectives Thursday, March 14, 2014, 7:30 – 9:30 a.m. 7:30 a.m. Networking | 8 a.m. Presentation & Workshop | 9 a.m. Q&A Cheyenne Mountain Resort, 3225 Broadmoor Valley Road

BiggsKofford and Merrill Lynch will host Kenneth H. Marks, a nationally-known author and speaker, who has written about middle-market financing on October 24, 2012.

We’ll discuss:

• What lenders are specifically looking for to finance small and mid-sized companies
• What areas of your business should be financed to see the most growth
• Where to go when banks say you’re not yet bankable
• Strategies in today’s economy for financing your exit strategy

For more information about the event and to RSVP, click here.