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Entrepreneurs = Recovery

In the midst of our financial, entrepreneurs will once again lead the economic recovery.

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Judy Griggs

Preferred Machine Tools

One of only a handful of women business owners in the male-dominated, large-machinery brokerage business, Judy Griggs says that when you’re an entrepreneur, you gotta do what you gotta do. In 1996 Griggs launched Preferred Machine Tools (PMT), Grand Prairie, Texas, and her company now boasts annual revenues of $1.2 million.

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FastTrac® Providers

Who Offers the FastTrac Programs?

FastTrac programs are delivered by a variety of over 300 alliance organizations-non-academic, academic, non-profit and for-profit-including chambers of commerce, business development centers, local and regional economic development councils, colleges, universities, consulting firms, and many others across the 50 United States and select countries around the world. These organizations pursue meaningful goals to support entrepreneurship every day. And their leaders are passionate about:

  • Building their communities by building strong economies.
  • Growing their organizations by providing valued services.
  • Fulfilling their missions by transforming principles into practice.

Why Do Organizations and Institutions Offer FastTrac?

FastTrac entrepreneur-learning programs help organizations achieve these goals better, faster, and with more recognition. Organizations that offer FastTrac benefit in many ways. By supporting the growth of your community's start-up, emerging, and growth entrepreneurs with FastTrac, your organization can:

  • Fulfill economic and education missions
  • Build their visibility and credibility
  • Serve stakeholders in new ways
  • Create new revenue streams
  • Increase impact in measurable ways

In addition, as a leader of an organization that offers FastTrac programs, you can access a worldwide network of peers for information, insight, and even inspiration. You can share experiences, investigate new ideas, and learn best practices of other organizations with similar goals.

The stakes are high. Growing, entrepreneurial companies power the economy by providing needed innovations, products, and services and by creating jobs. Entrepreneurs are the economic engine that makes the free-enterprise system possible.

Who Participates in the FastTrac Programs?

FastTrac programs and materials meet the needs of aspiring and growth entrepreneurs on all socio-economic levels including:

  • Students who are exploring entrepreneurship through college and university courses.
  • Aspiring entrepreneurs who are evaluating their business idea to determine whether it can be viably launched into a business.
  • Existing entrepreneurs who are looking for new, strategic focus and direction of the business they're leading.
  • Displaced workers who are contemplating entrepreneurship as their new career option.
  • Discover more about how your organization can benefit by serving entrepreneurs with FastTrac programs and materials.

FastTrac for Entrepreneur Support Organizations

If you represent a non-academic organization, FastTrac Live! is the ideal venue to discover more about FastTrac's turn-key programs. FastTrac Live! is a Webinar designed to give you an overview of the FastTrac programs, answer questions about the benefits of FastTrac programs, and outline the steps to becoming a certified FastTrac provider.

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FastTrac for College and University Educators

FastTrac products have been used successfully in college and university classrooms for over 20 years. Like all FastTrac products, they bring a practical, hands-on approach to entrepreneurship alive in the classroom. Student materials are supported by turn-key instructor manuals. Adopting FastTrac materials for your class is as simple as placing an order through the FastTrac Fulfillment Center.

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