Prior to last winter, Western Washington University’s Kitsap Small Business Development Center (SBDC), which opened in July 2019, was seeing a typical mix of entrepreneurs wanting help to get financing, Boomers ready to sell, owners of well-established businesses looking for marketing support, developers wanting expansion plan input, and inventors needing help on an investor pitch. And added to the mix there were the dreamers -- the budding entrepreneurs who need some guidance to start moving forward from an idea to a plan to the launch of a new business. 

Then the pandemic hit.