Looking for some free help with your startup or non-profit? The Center for Small Business in the College of Business at Sac State provides faculty-led student assistance for your projects. The services are provided by juniors, seniors, and graduate students under faculty supervision. They have projects available in many areas of business: financial management analysis and planning; human resource management; information systems (web design, databases, apps); international business; marketing and sales planning; production and operating systems management; strategic management analysis and strategic planning; and supply chain and logistics. Apply for assistance or learn more on their website.

Also available from Sac State are free office hours with the Carlsen Center entrepreneurs-in-residence (you don’t need to be a student). You can sign up for a consultation for help with your startup or non-profit. Areas of advice include how to: test and build startup ideas, understand your idea in a business model, explore your value proposition, refine your business strategy for rapid growth, and/or tap into other entrepreneurial resources. Learn more/sign up here.

This Week’s Best Bets

1 Million Cups Sacramento with Enoved and Senior Property Maintenance, Wed Sep 9 at 8:45 AM 1MC is Sacramento’s weekly, morning, coffee-fueled event where 2 founders present their startups to their peers for advice and feedback. Presenters: Enoved gives PE Instructors all the tools they need to teach remote classes during school closures. Senior Property Maintenance does home services for seniors including gutter cleaning, window cleaning, Christmas lights, and solar panel cleaning.  Are you a Startup Founder? Apply to present at a future 1 Million Cups.

Capital Creative Showcase, Sat Sep 12 at Noon  The Capital Creative Showcase returns in an online format to showcase all of the amazing games that have been released by our local Sacramento developers. There will be trailers, interviews and some amazing micro-talks prepared so make sure to tune in to the SDC Youtube to check them all out!

Plan Ahead

Finding a Co-Founder: Perspectives from the Technical Side, Thu Sep 17 at 6 PM  This panel discussion is in response to the community’s endless feedback on the challenge of finding and attracting technical talent into an early-stage startup. Join the Carlsen Center and Hacker Lab to learn from our panelists about how and why they, as technical co-founders, advisors, and early team members, joined a startup at an early stage.

Save the Dates: Three Events in October to Showcase CyberSecurity & IoT, Future Mobility, and Health IT in the Sacramento Region  During these three free half-day afternoon events in October (15th, 22nd, 29th), the showcase will feature and spotlight startups and innovators through talks and panels with thought-leaders and presentations from innovative companies in each featured industry vertical.

There’s a lot more going on in the Sacramento Startup Community–check out the details in this week’s Startup Digest. And for even more startup information, happenings and resources, visit the StartupSac Website.

Missing connecting with other founders? Request to join the StartupSac Community Facebook Group, a place where startup founders and those who support the growth of our startup ecosystem can connect and exchange ideas