Office Hours with the WWU Small Business Development Center

Staffed by Certified Business Advisors and supported by the Western Washington University Small Business Development Center (SBDC) team and resources, the Kitsap SBDC serves businesses throughout the Kitsap Peninsula with one-on-one advising, training and research to help local businesses and entrepreneurs succeed. 

The SBDC works with local small business owners and entrepreneurs like you to discover opportunities, overcome roadblocks, improve operations, scale-up, and steward successful business transitions. The Kitsap team, comprised by Joyce Oswald and Melissa Tanno, is available to you at no-cost whenever you want to move your business forward faster, break through barriers and accelerate growth, by offering free and confidential, one-on-one, client-centered business advising, market research, and education. 

Talk to Melissa about...

• Planning a business - helping you get started
• Financing a business - helping you get money
• Managing a business - everyday operations
• Accounting and finance - tracking business performance
• Marketing and sales - get more customers and sell more
• Government contracting - selling to governments
• Exporting - selling around the world
• Business sales - buying and selling a business
• Getting connected to key resources
• ... and more!

Sign up with the SBDC team, or if an existing client, email our office, kitsapsbdc@wwu.edu.

OFFICE HOURS: HOW IT WORKS

Office hours are free and open to all Matchstick Lab Micro Business Accelerator Founders, Alumni, Vibe members and the general public.

Priority access is given to members of the current Matchstick Lab Accelerator cohort.

These Office Hours are held in-person at Vibe Coworks in Poulsbo in the Matchstick Lab Founder's Space, made possible by Kitsap Bank. 

Reservations are required. In the event that no one has booked / is waiting please feel free to knock on the door and join us, you are welcome to do so within the parameters of the SBDC team's designated office hours.