Council For Entrepreneurial Development Kicks Off CAFÉ Workshop Series

Joan Siefert Rose, admiral of the Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) (www.cednc.org), a private, nonprofit alignment that promotes ambitious efforts in the Triangle arena of North Carolina, has appear the barrage of the Competitive Advantage through Fundamentals of Entrepreneurs (CAFÉ) Workshop Series. The new breakfast program, which is appointed to run from August 2009 to December 2010, was crafted in acknowledgment to acknowledgment acquired from CED’s recently-completed affiliate survey. CAFÉ has been advised as a hands-on fundamentals branch for across entrepreneurs in capricious stages of business and development.

Through CAFÉ, bounded professionals get the befalling to apprentice about the analytical issues that affect a company’s success. Topics that will be covered cover able management, sales, adopting capital, accounts and cost-effective business strategies. Meetings will abide of abrupt console discussions from celebrated organizations, followed by break-out groups for catechism and answers led by these accustomed professionals, and networking opportunities.

The CAFÉ sessions will be captivated from 7:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. on baddest dates at CED’s offices, amid at 100 Capitola Drive, Suite 106 in Durham. Entrepreneurial ability booths will be present at anniversary meeting. The aboriginal affair of the alternation is blue-blooded “Expanding Your Network: An Introduction to Area’s Entrepreneur Support Organizations,” is appointed for Thursday, Aug. 13, and is chargeless to attend. The affair will affection assembly from several bounded organizations that abide to added abutment the arising advance business community, including:

•Association for Corporate Growth (ACG)
•Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals (ASAP)
•The Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO)
•First Flight Venture Center
•Licensing Executives Society (LES)
•National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD)
•National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO)
•North Carolina Biotechnology Center
•NC IDEA
•North Carolina Chinese Business Association (NCCBA)
•North Carolina Technology Association (NCTA)
•Renewable Energy Business Network (REBN)
•Small Business Technology Development Council (SBTDC)
•Triangle Gaming Initiative (TGI)
•TiE Carolinas
•Triangle Technology Executive Council (TTEC)

With the barring of the August 13 session, branch fees are $10 for CED associates and $40 for non-members, and allotment is appropriate to attend. A complete account and arbitrary of anniversary affair is accessible at www.cednc.org/CAFÉ. For added information, acquaintance Bob Pickens at (919) 226-0481 or bpickens@cednc.org.

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“CED is aflame to appoint bounded entrepreneurs in a new and allusive way,” said Rose. “We are assured that the program, advised in acknowledgment to acknowledgment from our affiliate survey, will be a above ability for bounded entrepreneurs.”

About the Council for Entrepreneurial Development:
The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) is a private, nonprofit alignment founded in 1984 to identify, accredit and advance high-growth, high-impact companies and advanced the region’s ambitious culture. Headquartered in the Research Triangle Park, CED is the oldest and better ambitious abutment alignment in the nation with added than 5,500 breath members. CED provides know-how, networking, mentoring and basic accumulation assets to new and absolute high-growth entrepreneurs through anniversary conferences, programs and web-based resources. CED has helped entrepreneurs, investors, account partners, advisers and accessible action makers in assorted arising industries and at all stages of development – from high-tech, production-based organizations to account companies, from one-person start-ups to 1,000-person businesses. For added information, appointment www.cednc.org.

Patty Briguglio
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