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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.
Read MoreFastTrac 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:
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:
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.
FastTrac programs and materials meet the needs of aspiring and growth entrepreneurs on all socio-economic levels including:
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.
Register now for the next FastTrac Live!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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