Flipping Grand Bahama

It's about over a week since the last post and in that time we have hosted the first Bahamas Womenpreneur Power Conference and Expo at the Pelican Bay Hotel in Freeport. Well the number of participants was not what we wanted but we had a number of vendors and over all I would deem it a success. Collaborating FSI, with Media Unlimited and Flipping Grand Bahama we did a lot of promotions online and some radio advertising, as well as newspaper articles. We learned a lot in putting on the event, and even more from the speakers on staring business, how to deal with the recently implemented Value Added Tax (VAT) and where funding is possible in The Bahamas. Again the aim of this blog is to be a game changer, to change the mindset of the people in the country and particularly on the island of Grand Bahama for us to change it into a successful little island. Of great importance we learned about the concessions implemented for the people living outside Freeport and those concess...

This past week the Grand Bahama heard of a recent success business story which is well worth the sharing. It was the story of Bahamas Striping Ltd and Atario Micthell its president who began with the governments past venture capital programme called the "Start up Programme." He turned $5000.00 he said to millions and is presently giving back to the community. Here is his story and we at Flipping Grand Bahama are encouraging others through our venture capital programme to purchase t-shirts to build up the capital for more such programmes. Click here to order your shirt

For the second year TEDx Talks is coming to Grand Bahama with just as great a set of talks. Now if you missed it last year I must say you missed a lot but here you can catch up. Ok it took me a while to find this out but follow these links and you will see the talks: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=TEDxGrandBahama For those who do not know, TED  is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less). TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics — from science to business to global issues — in more than 100 languages. So a TEDx Talk is also a showcase for speakers presenting great, well-formed ideas in under 18 minutes. These talks in Grand Bahama are so very much within the same thoughts as Flipping Grand Bahama we asked to be part of it, to sponsor the programme by advertising. So watch out for more information on the ...