{"id":3983,"date":"2015-08-07T16:06:42","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T16:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=3983"},"modified":"2015-08-07T16:06:42","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T16:06:42","slug":"fasttrac-coming-to-laguna-madre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=3983","title":{"rendered":"FastTrac Coming to Laguna Madre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3984\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/FastTrac-illo.jpg\" alt=\"FastTrac-illo\" width=\"600\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/FastTrac-illo.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/FastTrac-illo-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/FastTrac-illo-405x197.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The UTRGV-Kauffman FastTrac NewVenture Entrepreneurship Program is coming to the Laguna Madre, thanks to a collaboration between the Port Isabel EDC, South Padre Island EDC and the UTRGV-Entrepreneurship and Commercialization Center. The 10-session program will take place from Sept. 17 \u2013 Nov. 19.<\/p>\n<p>FastTrac is described as a program which \u201cprovides the tools to develop a business concept, determine the viability of the business concept and outline the critical steps to launch a successful business.\u201d Participants will identify market needs, understand business fundamentals, explore risk and success factors, network with entrepreneurship professionals, build a business plan and have access to human, financial and business resources.<\/p>\n<p>The ten sessions culminating into thirty hours of facilitated instruction will take place every Thursday from 6-9 p.m. at the Port Isabel Events &amp; Cultural Center and the South Padre Island Birding and Nature Center.<br \/>\nRegistration takes place through Sept. 16, with space being limited. Registration is $700. FastTrac NewVenture includes certified facilitators, FastTrac book and materials, access to the Kauffman website and certificate of completion.<br \/>\nApplications are available online at <a href=\"http:\/\/utb.affiliate.fasttrac.org\" target=\"_blank\">utb.affiliate.fasttrac.org<\/a>. For more information, call Jose Gavino at 882-4119.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UTRGV-Kauffman FastTrac NewVenture Entrepreneurship Program is coming to the Laguna Madre, thanks to a collaboration between the Port Isabel EDC, South Padre Island EDC and the UTRGV-Entrepreneurship and Commercialization Center. The 10-session program will take place from Sept. 17 \u2013 Nov. 19. FastTrac is described as a program which \u201cprovides the tools to develop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3985,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3983\/revisions\/3985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}