FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

(Portland, Maine) The Maine Center for Entrepreneurial Development (MCED) is pleased to announce that its newest Top Gun Sponsor is Furman Gregory Deptula.

With over 80 years of combined experience and expertise in areas of venture capital, finance, accounting, real estate, health care, technology, intellectual property, licensing, business formation, strategic alliances, mediation, litigation, regulatory and employment law, the firm provides cost effective and timely business guidance to our clients, customized to their business needs.

“Our firm was established to jump-start startup companies. Furman Gregory is thrilled, to again, be engaged in the Top Gun program that gives Maine-based entrepreneurs the best tools and mentoring to establish successful businesses that will bolster the Maine economy,” says Karin Gregory of Furman Gregory, lead mentor and advisory board member.

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.