The Brink SBDC

The Brink SBDC

The Brink SBDC is part of the San Diego & Imperial Small Business Development Center Network, hosted at the University of San Diego and is funded through a variety of public funds, including through a cooperative agreement with the US Small Business Administration, California GoBiz Office, and a partnership with the County of San Diego.

• The Brink SBDC ranked #1 by San Diego Business Journal Business Incubators and Accelerators
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Working With The Brink SBDC

• The Brink SBDC is a specialty center focused on innovation, one of only a handful of its kind in the country, hosted at University of San Diego. 
• We work with business clients running or starting growth-oriented, innovation-based companies. 
• Our support is always confidential and our consulting is free. Our training is free or low-fee. 
• An ideal client for The Brink SBDC is an entrepreneur with an innovative product, solution or service and has a larger than local addressable market and a scalable business model. They also strive to learn and want to grow.
• Our support includes free or low fee training and consulting for innovative businesses- for-profit enterprises with fewer than 500 employees
• Our goal-post is economic growth and prosperity for the region while attaining the penta-bottom line so important to University of San Diego’s work: supporting profit, people, planet, peace, prosperity

Our Process

• The Brink SBDC is part of the San Diego Imperial Small Business Development Center Network. When you sign up for services, you are directed to the center that can best serve your needs
• We offer a suite of services resources, from free and low fee training, to advising from our team of consultants to connections to University of San Diego talent- professors, students, and alumni. 
• Depending on your company stage, we have different resources available when you sign up as a client. Whether you’re a solo-entrepreneur with an innovative idea or a scaling business with a team, users and revenue, we look forward to supporting you. 

Mission

The Brink SBDC at USD provides world-class training and one-to-one consulting to business clients running or starting growth-oriented, innovation-based companies, resulting in economic growth and prosperity for the region while attaining the penta-bottom line (profit, people, planet, peace, prosperity).