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Life Safety and OSHA training in CPR, First Aid, Automated External Defibrillator, Evacuation Simulations for fire, earthquake or active shooter.  Their programs empower companies to offer 300+ online courses or deliver BLS, ACLS or PALS classroom trainings onsite.  Combined with their custom First Aid Kits and Earthquake Packs, they are proud to be the safety super hero for companies across the U.S.

With stores throughout California, American Cancer Society Discovery Shops help support the fight against cancer through the sale of high quality, gently used, donated merchandise. For over 40 years, the Society has owned and operated these specialty resale stores, featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items. Shop, donate, or volunteer at your Discovery Shop.  Together, we are saving lives.

Join us to celebrate their new location!

Free Small Business Seminar
Tax Tips and Strategies for Small Business

Are you planning ahead with your business tax strategy? Good tax planning can save you significant amounts of money come tax time. Join Mary Anne Passarella, CPA to learn about the choices you have and how you can minimize your taxes.

Topics covered include:
– Business versus personal expenses
– Capitalizing versus expensing business property
– Payroll expenses you can deduct
– Accounting periods and methods
– Business use of your automobile
– Meals/travel/entertainment expenses
– Business gifts
– General tax strategies

Free to attend, but registration is required.

Tuesday, February 28, 2017
6:00 PM – 8:45 PM
Fremont Main Library
2400 Stevenson Blvd.
Fremont, CA 94538

Startup Grind Fremont – Ritika Puri – Storyhackers

Co-founded by Justin Strauss and Ritika Puri, Storyhackers is a content studio, media brand, and education company hybrid. With geo-dispersed team of 24 consultants in the U.S., U.K., and APAC, We’re best known for writing engaging copy, making complex topics fun to read about, and helping our customers make functional, conversion-optimized content. Storyhackers help various companies to increase qualified leads, improve the efficiency of their sales funnels, and boost conversion rates.

Ritika Puri is a writer turned sociologist turned somewhat-data scientist turned marketer turned storyteller. She has taught workshops and mentored for Galvanize, Lean Startup Company, Hult International Business School, 500 Startups, and Femgineer. Prior to starting Storyhackers, Ritika built strategic partnerships and business intelligence frameworks for Investopedia.com, and she co-founded a preventative health clinic in New Delhi, India. Along with co-founder, creative partner, (and husband) Justin Strauss, she is passionate about building multi-million dollar profit streams from $0 while creating a business culture of kindness for her fellow humans.

Startup Grind Fremont holds monthly meetings for startups, entrepreneurs, and VCs to share experiences, learn from each other, and create a “culture of innovation.” The monthly chapter meetings include time for networking and a fireside chat with a local CEO.

Date: March 1, 2017
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Location: Electronics For Imaging (EFI)
Address: 6700 Dumbarton Circle
Fremont, CA 94555

Attend a meeting to talk about linkage fees on March 6.
The City of Fremont retained Keyser Marston Associates (KMA) to conduct a nexus study to determine whether an affordable housing impact fee on non-residential development is justifiable as a way to increase resources for affordable housing.

A copy of the KMA Report is available at: fremont.gov/DocumentCenter/View/32337

The City will be facilitating a meeting on March 6, 2017, from 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. to provide an overview of KMA’s nexus analysis including findings and recommendations. In addition, you will have an opportunity to provide the City and KMA with your feedback and comments.

Please find details regarding the upcoming meeting below:

Monday, March 6, 2017
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
City of Fremont Development Services Center
Niles Conference Room
39550 Liberty Street
Fremont, CA 94538

If you have any questions, please feel free to email May Lee at [email protected] or call her at (510) 494-4506.

It’s nearly time for Holy Trinity Lutheran Church’s annual Spaghetti Feed!

Join us from 4-8 p.m. on Saturday, March 18, for an evening of food and fun. The festivities will be held in Holland Hall at the church site, 38801 Blacow Rd., Fremont.

FOOD: Four kinds of pasta are on the menu, in addition to Caesar salad, garlic bread, and dessert that includes, of course, tiramisu.
Beer and wine will also be served, for an extra charge.
FUN: The evening’s entertainment includes a silent auction, an ongoing raffle with prizes every 15 minutes, a special kids’ zone, and proceeds benefit HTLC’s ongoing community outreach and service programs, such as George Mark House.
TICKETS:

• Prices are $15 per adult,
• $10 per child under 12,
• and kids under 3 eat free.
• Family tickets (two adults and two or more children) are $45.

Women in Business – Learn from Successful Bay Area CEOs

Bay Area CEO businesswomen share their experiences, resources and insight into what helped them on their path to success, what they learned, and most importantly, how this knowledge can help you to succeed in your own business.

If you are interested in learning some unexpected fundamentals of business success, this seminar is for you. Come join the Alameda County SBDC for an informative, engaging and interactive panel discussion on how to best lay the groundwork for, launch and manage a thriving business in the Bay Area.

Seminar Panelists:
Emily Liggett, President and CEO, NovaTorque
June Riley, CEO, VC Taskforce
Shilpi Sharma, CEO, Kvantum
Jody Tatro, CEO, ProExhibits

Moderator: Dorian Webb, Dorian Webb Lifestyle, Designer and Manufacturer

Free to Attend
Registration: 1:00pm – 1:15pm
Panel: 1:15pm – 2:45pm
Q&A: 2:45pm – 3:00pm

This seminar is sponsored by the City of Fremont

Does your business produce events to enhance your brand and advertise your products?

Do you want to start up an event program for your business, and need to learn how?

Learn a comprehensive approach to manage and promote events big and small. You will learn all the tools necessary in order to handle everything from registrations to payment to promotion in a professional, affordable way.

Topics covered will include:

Plan – Professionally promote your event. Set up an ad-free event homepage, collect registration fees with secure payment processing, and keep registration open for attendees to register online at their convenience.

Track – Reduce repetitive tasks. Reduce the number of day-to-day “to-dos” with online event registration, reminders, invitations, a calendar, and event themes. Do more…but in minutes by managing all your promotions, registrations, and communications in one place.

Manage – Monitor and course-correct. Save money by taking the guesswork out of capturing attendance information. Use event tracking and reporting tools to plan for exact catering needs, room size, parking spaces, etc.

Social Media/Digital Marketing Basics

How do you use or plan to use social media and digital marketing in your business?

Do you have an integrated plan to help your customer find, engage, and transact business with you?

This seminar is designed to help you understand how to set up or focus your strategy on a high level, and covers the key areas of social media and digital marketing:

* Website
* Blog
* Online Directories
* Review Sites
* Social Networks
* Rich Media
* Mobile Applications
* Industry Specific Sites
* Event Promotion

We will explain the role of social media as part of your marketing program, and how to implement digital marketing into your total business plan to drive sales and increase profits.

This seminar is sponsored by the Alameda County Community Development Agency

Startup Grind Fremont – Mike Farley – Tile

Under Mike’s guidance, Tile has sustained that momentum and is now the leader in smart location, offering consumer facing products in addition to a proprietary platform that allows other brands to integrate Tile’s smart location technology.
Lets learn from his experience of brining this concept to reality. Focus would be on:

• Funding
• Team
• Product Strategy
• Market & Trends
• Scaling the company

About Mike

Mike Farley is CEO and Co-Founder of San Mateo-based smart location company, Tile. An engineer by trade, Mike developed Tile to help his wife find the many items she often misplaced. Mike was recently named a 2016 E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year.

About Tile

Tile gives everything the power of smart location. Tile’s devices, network and mobile app work together to help people locate the things that matter to them most. As the world’s largest lost-and-found network, Tile’s global community spans over 200 countries and territories and helps people locate more than one million items every day. The Tile Smart Location Platform makes it possible for other companies to embed location into their own products. The company is based in San Mateo, CA and is backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, GGV Capital and Khosla Ventures. Tile is a top seller in retail stores and is sold online around the world.

Startup Grind Fremont holds monthly meetings for startups, entrepreneurs, and VCs to share experiences, learn from each other, and create a “culture of innovation.” The monthly chapter meetings include time for networking and a fireside chat with a local CEO.

Date: March 30, 2017
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Location: Electronics For Imaging (EFI)
Address: 6700 Dumbarton Circle
Fremont, CA 94555