Maui Business Brainstormers

Have you ever had a crazy idea, but hesitated to try it out? Have you tried something new that didn't go the way you thought? Come hear stories from business colleagues who have gone wild in their businesses or have survived a failed idea, and lived to tell you about it!

event offered at no charge to you, no sales talk, online RSVP required.
Plan to attend? No admission at the sign-in table if no online RSVP.

GUEST FACILITATORS

• Debra Finkiewicz (Maui Closet)
• Diane Haynes Woodburn (Maui No Ka Oi Magazine)
• Glen Simkins (Coconut Glen's Ice Cream)

OBJECTIVES OF THIS INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP

• Thinking "out of the box" to increase your chance of getting more people to learn about your business and yourself
• Preparing to think fast in unexpected situations in business meetings and other impromptu situations
• Strategic thinking in a fast-paced environment
• Practicing short talk-story to increase awareness of body language and tone of voice
• "Getting out of the comfort zone" to conquer the world
• Networking with a large audience.
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  ACTIVE AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION
• Call out helpful thoughts or suggestions
• Use humor to comment on the situations
• Shout out what you have done in the past
• When leaving the stage, the entrepreneur picks the next person to come up
• The chosen person - if not ready – points to another one in the audience.
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  N.E.W. stands for "National Entrepreneurship Week"
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  SUPPORTERS and Sponsors of the Maui's 2020 "National Entrepreneurship Week" include:
• Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education
• National Entrepreneurship Week - NatlEshipWeek
• RJK, LLC (www.RichardKehoeCPA.com)
• ProArts on Maui
• Grants Central Station
• Maui Heritage Hall
• Roy's Ka'anapali
• The Fairmont Kea Lani

(more names of organizations coming up...)

Book your evening of your Wednesday, March 31st, for our MBB's 8th edition, dinner event at the "pink house" of Kamehameha Golf Club, featuring our peer businesses "Kai Wa'a", "The Local Gentry", "Bounty Music", and "Moloka'i Sea Farms".

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This event is postponed to March 31, 2021.(Original schedule: April 1st, 2020; then, rescheduled to August 19, 2020; then, rescheduled to March 31, 2021, then to 2022...)

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Since 2013, once a year, MBB hosts the "Masters of Retail Success in Maui" (MRSM), an evening of talk-story, with dinner. It gives voice to local businesses. Presenting businesses share how everything started; the bad and the good experiences in business; the road to reach where the business is now. Each business gets to talk story up to 30 minutes (with no sales tone). In 2019, MRSMaui did not happen because of Covid19.

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PRESENTING BUSINESSES
❋ The Local Gentry - (Lana'i based, since December 1999)
❋ Bounty Music - (in Kahului, since 1979)
❋ Kai Wa'a - (in Pukalani, since 2001)
❋ Moloka'i Broodstock Company -(Moloka'i based, since 1987)

❋ Host, spokesperson: Lori Fisher❋ Emcees: Kahu David Kapaku and John Hau'oli Tomoso

❋ ❋ Please find the dinner menu at the bottom❋ ❋

5:15pm►Sign-in, Meet and Mingle
5:40pm►Dinner starts
6:15pm►Presentation starts
Four Maui based businesses to share their unique journey, full of hands-on experiences, on the road that goes to a more stable and sunnier place.

• How they got enough inspiration to get started.
• How their big mistakes resulted in new ideas to improve their businesses.
• Fears they had to overcome.
• How they have beat the odds and trends.
• How they increase brand visibility and connect with customers.
• How they strive to reinvent themselves to stay abreast of the times.

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• What to bring: a coat (in case the room temperature gets cold)

• Important to know:

• complimentary self-parking
• event with no sales pitch tone,
• your payment for the dinner will go entirely to the restaurant,
• even if you are not eating, you will need to pay the dinner portion.
  Reason: MBB chose the option to offer dinner instead of charging the attendee for the admission (to pay for the use of the venue)

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DINNER MENU below -
MBB member: Register via MBB Meetup and pay $62.
if you register as non-member of MBB at $65, MBB will not provide refund of $3.

MENU:
[VEGETARIAN strictly diet? The price is the same. Please text 808-463-8528 after your registration.]

• Organic Upcountry Baby Greens with Chef’s Choice of Dressings;
• Maui Pineapple Cole Slaw;
• Traditional Potato Salad with Fresh Chives;
• Grilled Top Sirloin of Beef with Merlot Demi-Glaze;
• Smokey Paniolo Baby Back Ribs;
• Pulehu Mahi-mahi and Island Pineapple;
• Sweet Corn-on-the-cob;
• Steamed White Rice
• Fresh Baked Rolls;
• Assorted Pies;
• Hawaiian Isle Kona Coffee and Flavored Hot Teas
• (actual dinner cost $65. Note that MBB would have to pay for the use of the venue if it did not want food.)

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Collaboration, Sponsorship and Support:
Maui Jim (MauiJim.com)
Pulama Lana'i (pulamalanai.com)
Grants Central Station
RJK LLC (RichardKehoeCPA.com)
HawaiiUSA Federal Credit Union (hawaiiusafcu.com/Banking)
Lenovo
Logitech