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SUMMARY:Take the LEAP to Entrepreneurship\, a 20Fathoms Breakfast Lab
DESCRIPTION:This Week at Breakfast Lab\nThinking about becoming an entrepreneur but not sure if it’s really the right path for you? This week\, Amy Courter leads a session built around Entrepreneurial Leap (E-Leap)\, a framework designed specifically for early-stage and aspiring entrepreneurs to figure out whether entrepreneurship is the right fit\, and if so\, to get started with real clarity and confidence. Every participant will leave with a copy of Entrepreneurial LEAP by Gino Wickman. \nWhat You’ll Walk Away With: \n\nConfirm: Whether you have the characteristics associated with successful entrepreneurs\nGlimpse: A realistic picture of what being an entrepreneur actually involves — the freedom and opportunity\, but also the uncertainty\, responsibility\, setbacks\, and demands\nPath: If entrepreneurship is the right fit\, a way to start turning that realization into action\n\nAbout the Presenter\nAmy Courter\, MBA is a Certified EOS Implementer and functional business strategist who helps leadership teams build clarity\, alignment\, and cohesive teams as they grow. A veteran executive\, she’s held CEO\, COO\, CFO\, and CIO roles and has personally implemented EOS in four businesses\, the first scaling to $250M. Before her business career\, she served as a General Officer\, leading more than 60\,000 airmen nationwide as National Commander of the Civil Air Patrol. She brings a no-nonsense\, execution-first lens to helping founders turn growth into structure instead of chaos. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Breakfast Lab\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBreakfast Lab is a weekly event at 20Fathoms where you’ll get expert guidance to help meet your most pressing startup needs. Connecting you to the right tools and the right people at the right time. \nThese events are held in person and offered virtually. There is no cost to attend. Coffee and a light breakfast are provided. Walk-ins are welcome. \nAnd if you’d like to stay and keep working\, coworking at 20Fathoms is free on Thursdays for Breakfast Lab attendees.
URL:https://20fathoms.org/event/amy-courter-a-20fathoms-breakfast-lab/
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SUMMARY:Finding Focus as a Solopreneur\, a 20Fathoms Breakfast Lab
DESCRIPTION:This Week at Breakfast Lab\nFounders don’t lack ideas\, connections\, or resources — they lack focus. As the CEO\, CFO\, CMO\, and everything else in between\, it’s easy to lose sight of what actually matters when everything feels like the priority. \nIn this session\, Shea Petaja will share the guiding principles she’s developed for solopreneurs to focus\, find support\, and gain traction. Shea has worked with coaches on strategy and focus since 2008\, and after years facilitating EOS and L10 meetings for a former employer\, she struck out on her own in 2022 — only to discover that the frameworks built for bigger businesses don’t translate perfectly to solopreneurs. That realization led her to create a mastermind of founders and the Fo*Cuss planner\, built around a simple truth from her own coach: “Simple isn’t easy.” \nJoin Shea for breakfast and learn how to cut through the noise and get traction on what matters most. This session is ideal for experienced solopreneurs and seasoned founders in need of a refresh. \nAbout the Presenter\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShea Petaja has been working with coaches on strategy and focus since 2008. She introduced EOS to her former employer and facilitated L10 meetings for several years — she’s a fan. When she went out on her own in 2022\, she found that the skills that worked for bigger businesses didn’t translate perfectly for solopreneurs\, so she created a mastermind of founders and the Fo*Cuss planner\, now their guide to getting focused and staying on track. \n\nAbout Breakfast Lab\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBreakfast Lab is a weekly event at 20Fathoms where you’ll get expert guidance to help meet your most pressing startup needs. Connecting you to the right tools and the right people at the right time. \nThese events are held in person and offered virtually. There is no cost to attend. Coffee and a light breakfast are provided. Walk-ins are welcome. \nAnd if you’d like to stay and keep working\, coworking at 20Fathoms is free on Thursdays for Breakfast Lab attendees.
URL:https://20fathoms.org/event/finding-focus-as-a-solopreneur-a-20fathoms-breakfast-lab/
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SUMMARY:ABCs of SBIR/STTR Funding\, a 20Fathoms Breakfast Lab
DESCRIPTION:This Week at Breakfast Lab\nIf you’re building innovative technology\, there’s a source of R&D funding you may not be tapping yet\, and it doesn’t require giving up equity. The federal Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs make more than $5 billion in non-dilutive capital available to innovative small companies every year\, bridging the gap between your early-stage idea and proof that it has real market potential. \nJoin BBC\, etc experts for a virtual session covering what’s changed since the programs’ reauthorization\, eligibility requirements\, the differences between SBIR and STTR\, and how to identify which federal agencies might be interested in funding your technology. \nAbout the Presenter\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJerry Hollister is Co-Owner of BBC Entrepreneurial Training & Consulting (BBCetc)\, having joined the firm in 2017 and becoming co-owner in 2023. He leads customer development efforts and oversees BBCetc’s NSF\, DoD\, DOE\, and USDA team\, supporting clients across multiple federal agencies\, and serves as an SBIR/STTR reviewer for NSF\, DOE\, USDA\, and NOAA. \nJerry began his career as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps and served as a warranted DoD Contracting Officer. Prior to BBCetc\, he was Chief Operating Officer of Niowave\, where he helped build the company from startup to national prominence\, leading teams that secured over 45 SBIR/STTR awards totaling more than $20 million. He continues to serve on Niowave’s Board of Directors and holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan along with two AI certificates from MIT. \n\nAbout Breakfast Lab\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBreakfast Lab is a weekly event at 20Fathoms where you’ll get expert guidance to help meet your most pressing startup needs. Connecting you to the right tools and the right people at the right time. \nThese events are held in person and offered virtually. There is no cost to attend. Coffee and a light breakfast are provided. Walk-ins are welcome. \nAnd if you’d like to stay and keep working\, coworking at 20Fathoms is free on Thursdays for Breakfast Lab attendees.
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SUMMARY:AI-Powered Personal Productivity: The Focus Block\, a 20Fathoms Breakfast Lab
DESCRIPTION:This Week at Breakfast Lab\nMost founders know what it feels like to be busy all day and still fail to move the one thing that actually matters. Slack\, email\, customer requests\, half-finished ideas\, and a constantly available AI assistant can make it even harder to protect real thinking time. \nIn this hands-on session\, you’ll build a repeatable AI-supported focus block: a simple system for choosing one meaningful outcome\, gathering the context you need\, working deliberately\, parking distractions\, and closing with a clear next step. You’ll see how AI can help you prepare\, think\, and execute without becoming another source of noise. \nWe’ll work through how to define a useful outcome\, assemble the right context\, and create a personal focus workflow you can reuse. Attendees who come prepared should leave with a working template for their next high-value block of work. \nAttendees should bring: \n\nA laptop\nOne meaningful outcome or project they want to make progress on\nAny useful context: notes\, documents\, links\, or a rough to-do list\nA paid ChatGPT or Claude subscription (recommended)\n\nAbout the Presenter\nAdam Lorton is an independent consultant who helps non-engineers gain new superpowers with AI. \nSince the release of ChatGPT\, Adam has been on a mission to push AI tools to their limits—not for gimmicks\, but for real business value. He has been invited to teach AI fundamentals to organizations including Mochary Method Coaching and ALO Yoga. \nOutside work\, Adam is the author of This Week in Speedgolf\, the #1 newsletter on the internet devoted to the most athletic version of golf. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Breakfast Lab\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBreakfast Lab is a weekly event at 20Fathoms where you’ll get expert guidance to help meet your most pressing startup needs. Connecting you to the right tools and the right people at the right time. \nThese events are held in person and offered virtually. There is no cost to attend. Coffee and a light breakfast are provided. Walk-ins are welcome. \nAnd if you’d like to stay and keep working\, coworking at 20Fathoms is free on Thursdays for Breakfast Lab attendees.
URL:https://20fathoms.org/event/ai-powered-personal-productivity-the-focus-block-a-20fathoms-breakfast-lab/
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SUMMARY:AI-Powered Personal Productivity: Multiply Your Agency\, a 20Fathoms Breakfast Lab
DESCRIPTION:This Week at Breakfast Lab\nAI is most useful when it does more than answer a question. The real leverage comes when you can hand it a bounded outcome\, give it the context and guardrails it needs\, and let it work while you stay responsible for the judgment that matters. \nIn this hands-on session\, you’ll learn how to turn a longer-running task into a delegation brief for AI. We’ll cover what to delegate\, what not to delegate\, how to supply clear instructions and source material\, and how to build useful checkpoints so you are not blindly trusting an agent or stuck supervising every keystroke. \nParticipants will adapt one real task into a practical delegation workflow: something that can move forward while they work on higher-value priorities. This session builds directly on the protected focus time from Session 1\, but it also stands alone for anyone who wants a better way to use AI on substantial work. \nAttendees should bring: \n\nA laptop\nA current calendar and task list\, or a representative sample of incoming work\nOne recurring source of “things falling through the cracks” they would like to improve\nA paid ChatGPT or Claude subscription (recommended)\n\nAbout the Presenter\nAdam Lorton is an independent consultant who helps non-engineers gain new superpowers with AI. \nSince the release of ChatGPT\, Adam has been on a mission to push AI tools to their limits—not for gimmicks\, but for real business value. He has been invited to teach AI fundamentals to organizations including Mochary Method Coaching and ALO Yoga. \nOutside work\, Adam is the author of This Week in Speedgolf\, the #1 newsletter on the internet devoted to the most athletic version of golf. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Breakfast Lab\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBreakfast Lab is a weekly event at 20Fathoms where you’ll get expert guidance to help meet your most pressing startup needs. Connecting you to the right tools and the right people at the right time. \nThese events are held in person and offered virtually. There is no cost to attend. Coffee and a light breakfast are provided. Walk-ins are welcome. \nAnd if you’d like to stay and keep working\, coworking at 20Fathoms is free on Thursdays for Breakfast Lab attendees.
URL:https://20fathoms.org/event/ai-powered-personal-productivity-multiply-your-agency-a-20fathoms-breakfast-lab/
LOCATION:20Fathoms\, 10850 East Traverse Highway\, #Ste 4400\, Traverse City\, MI\, 49684\, United States
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SUMMARY:AI-Powered Personal Productivity: Orchestrate Your System\, a 20Fathoms Breakfast Lab
DESCRIPTION:This Week at Breakfast Lab\nThe work does not stop arriving just because you found focus or delegated one task. New requests\, calendar commitments\, meeting follow-ups\, ideas\, and loose ends keep showing up—and most productivity systems fail because they rely on memory and heroic effort to catch them all. \nIn this hands-on session\, you’ll design a lightweight AI-supported capture and routing system for your incoming work. We’ll explore how AI can help surface tasks from the places work already appears\, including calendars and meeting follow-up\, then help you decide what needs your attention now\, what belongs in a focused work block\, and what can be delegated or deferred. \nYou’ll leave with a practical model for running your personal operating system: protecting focus\, handing off the right work\, and keeping new commitments from disappearing into the noise. \nAttendees should bring: \n\nA laptop\nA current calendar and task list\, or a representative sample of incoming work\nOne recurring source of “things falling through the cracks” they would like to improve\nA paid ChatGPT or Claude subscription (recommended)\n\nAbout the Presenter\nAdam Lorton is an independent consultant who helps non-engineers gain new superpowers with AI. \nSince the release of ChatGPT\, Adam has been on a mission to push AI tools to their limits—not for gimmicks\, but for real business value. He has been invited to teach AI fundamentals to organizations including Mochary Method Coaching and ALO Yoga. \nOutside work\, Adam is the author of This Week in Speedgolf\, the #1 newsletter on the internet devoted to the most athletic version of golf. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Breakfast Lab\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBreakfast Lab is a weekly event at 20Fathoms where you’ll get expert guidance to help meet your most pressing startup needs. Connecting you to the right tools and the right people at the right time. \nThese events are held in person and offered virtually. There is no cost to attend. Coffee and a light breakfast are provided. Walk-ins are welcome. \nAnd if you’d like to stay and keep working\, coworking at 20Fathoms is free on Thursdays for Breakfast Lab attendees.
URL:https://20fathoms.org/event/ai-powered-personal-productivity-orchestrate-your-system-a-20fathoms-breakfast-lab/
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