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I do attend a lot of events.

I'm going to the AFCEA Air Force Industry Day.

I'll be going...

So I'm on the AFCEA programs committee that does all of the luncheons, so I'm at all of those.

Um, do some ACT-IAC stuff.

I'll be at ELC since I'm graduating in December.

I started in Senegal, and then- There are a few, like, lucky moments.

There was an AFCEA conference that happened in Dakar.

So a lot of the investors that I was reaching out to, they happened to be in Dakar, so then I was able to continue the conversation with them, and they became angels in Tenelle.

So definitely that was that.

[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome.

I'm Kimberly Underwood, Director of Digital News Media at AFCEA International Signal Media.

Welcome to Disrupted by Design.

We're doing a, a special series about small business, starting with this s- episode with the AFCEA Small Business Committee.

If you don't know about AFCEA's Small Business Committee, you should.

It's a tremendous resource.

AFCEA, in general, has several, uh, committees: the Intel Committee, Cyber Committee, Technology Committee.

And as you imagine, the Small Business Committee is involved with all things related to small businesses and the general ecosystem.

... she was indicating that if the owner is still billable, the company is not sellable.

It's funny, I remember, uh, like, must've been 10 years ago, at an AFCEA panel event, having, uh, this conversation with one of the panelists, the CEO, Babs Doherty.

Eagle Ray was her company.

And she talked about an intervention that her employees made, 'cause she was still coding.