Overview
Who are we?
- 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 help businesses start, grow, and get financing.
- Our support is always confidential and our consulting is free. Our training is free or low-fee.
Who do we help?
- We work with business clients running or starting growth-oriented, innovation-based companies with fewer than 500 employees.
- 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.
Why do we help?
- 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.
Client Profile
Our ideal client 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.
Level 1 Clients
Entrepreneur has a product or service idea, but not yet operable (no tax ID or EIN). Market demand and customer needs assumed but not validated.
Level 2 Clients
Establishing proof of concept, initial research and development activities, prototype and initial product development, and other early-stage pre-commercialization activities.
Level 3 Clients
Continuing and expanding initial research and development activities, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), prototype and initial product development, and other pre-commercialization activities.
Level 4 Clients
MVP or candidate ready for testing or market validation. Founder has raised capital or received SBIR funding.
Our Partners
Funded in part through a Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Funded in part through a Grant with the California Office of the Small Business Advocate; all opinions, conclusions, and/or recommendations expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the California Office of the Small Business Advocate.
The Accelerate California: Innovation Hub Program (Accelerate CA) is funded by the State of California and administered by the California Office of the Small Business Advocate (CalOSBA).