Sherri’s Bakery
Entrepreneur Sherri Dunn worked with Ken Grissom at the Alabama SBDC at JSU to start and grow her bakery business in Centre, Alabama. The SBDC at JSU has been with me every step of my journey as a small businessperson.…
Mexicana San Juditas
The Alabama Small Business Development Center started creating educational opportunities in Spanish during the summer of 2022 at the request of a community organizer who had been managing a social media outreach group and noticed the desire of the community…
Polaris Sensor Technologies
Founded in 2003, Polaris Sensor Technologies, Inc., a woman-owned business, is a leading electro-optic sensor company developing advanced optical systems for applications ranging from military sensors for detection, tracking, and environmental monitoring to navigation, holography, and hypersonic aero-optics. With a variety…
Jubilee Suites B&B
Dana Maloney, was referred to the SBDC in 2017 by her middle son, Dylan Maloney who was starting a business and had requested assistance from the SBDC. At the time, the client and her husband resided in North Carolina, but…
The Shoppes at Coldwater
Click Synergy, LLC was originally formed when the owners saw a need for content creation and media guidance for small businesses. They quickly realized that they could use their retail expertise to help other businesses grow and this led them…
Bedgood Laundry
Bernard Bedgood is a community member in Butler County who owns a landmark business in Greenville. Mr. Bedgood inherited "The wash house," as his father used to call it, in 2020. He says, "I stand on the shoulders of my…
5B Kennels
Tim Baird had a vision to use his family farm for more than agriculture. He started The Five B Kennels LLC to achieve this. Tim, his wife Traci and their three daughters make up “The Five B’s.” They breed and…
Bold Agency
The Bold Agency propels companies to be their boldest, most authentic selves to connect to their audience/customers. Lauren Gowins taps into her unique upbringing of living in four different countries to relate to people and to approach branding in broad,…