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Businesses Launching and Thriving Despite Current Economic Challenges

MANHATTAN—New York City has experienced high levels of unemployment and foreclosure rates and dwindling consumer spending and as a result many NYC residents have been forced to reinvent themselves and their businesses in the wake of the recession.

On Saturday, May 1, new and existing NYC small business owners will exhibit their businesses at the FastTrac NYC Spring Business Expo. The Expo will provide NYC small business owners the opportunity to network with peers, potential investors and consumers, and community leaders.

FastTrac is a training program to help emerging entrepreneurs, including those displaced from the financial services sector, start new businesses and help existing entrepreneurial business owners grow their businesses. Mayor Bloomberg endorsed the FastTrac program in March 2009 stating, “New York City’s workforce is the hardest-working and most talented in the nation, and that’s an asset we cannot afford to squander.”

The New York City Department of Small Business Services has partnered with The Levin Institute and the Kauffman Foundation, a philanthropic organization that works to advance entrepreneurship around the world, to provide two FastTrac programs to New Yorkers at no cost: FastTrac NewVenture and FastTrac GrowthVenture. The FastTrac NewVenture program is designed to help entrepreneurs determine the viability of their business concepts and assist in outlining the critical steps to a successful business launch. The FastTrac GrowthVenture program is designed to provide business owners the tools and support to carefully review and evaluate important aspects of their business, explore next stage growth and opportunity, and reshape their existing business for future profitability and improved business performance.

For more information regarding the FastTrac NYC Business Expo call (212-317-3565).

WHO:          Local Officials, Community Leaders, Entrepreneurs, FastTrac Program Alumni, Press

EVENT:       FastTrac NYC Business Expo

DATE/TIME: Saturday, May 1, 2010---1:00-5:00PM

LOCATION:  SUNY Levin Institute
                   116 East 55th Street (b/w Park and Lexington Avenues)
                   New York City, NY 10022

RSVP:         www.onlinersvpbest.com – Enter Event ID 2540

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