FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Portland, Maine) The Maine Center for Enterprise Development (MCED) is pleased to announce the Maine Small Business Development Center at USM will sponsor the Top Gun Program.
John Entwistle, Center Director for Maine’s SBDC stated, “The Maine Small Business Development Center at USM is pleased to participate as a sponsor of MCED’s Top Gun Program, which provides a tremendously valuable resource for Maine’s developing entrepreneurs. Creating a successful business enterprise is a challenging endeavor even during the best of times, and entrepreneurs often travel this road alone. Providing entrepreneurs with targeted training and the opportunity to network with some of Maine most talented business minds is a combination that can immeasurably improve their chances of success.”
Maine Small Business Development Centers (Maine SBDC) and its technology-focused group, the Maine Small Business & Technology Development Centers (Maine SBTDC), provide comprehensive business management assistance, training, resource and information services to Maine’s micro, small and technology-based business communities. To contact the Portland office, at USM, call (207) 780-4949.
Top Gun teaches emerging entrepreneurs what they really need to know to manage and grow a successful growth-oriented business. The formal program runs for four months but we expect that the mentoring relationships will extend well beyond the confines of the program. For additional information about MCED, please visit http://www.mcedtopgun.biz
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ABOUT MCED MCED is a private, not-for-profit 501-c-3 organization created to establish an environment where small companies, start-ups and first-time entrepreneurs can grow, prosper and successfully commercialize their technology in southern Maine. As Maine’s first business incubator, MCED was created out of the Portland Regional Chamber in 1997 to be a model of excellence for nurturing entrepreneurs, launching successful start-up companies and implementing innovation as an economic development tool for Maine.
CONTACT: Steven Bazinet, President 228-8525 sbazinet@mced.biz