The Executive's Edge For Breakthrough Results: Nationally Acclaimed Business Growth Expert Teams With Maryland Lt. Gov. Steele, MD Chamber of Commerce and Area Business Leaders to Help Maryland and Washington D.C. Businesses to Grow Fast, Grow Right

Business Wire, March 1, 2006

BALTIMORE -- It's the mandate for every business owner: Grow the business! But, too many of today's entrepreneurs fail to see that business growth, if not planned and managed correctly, can actually kill the business.

"Even the best cars need a pit stop now and then, and rapid growth companies need to take themselves off the track from time to time for a strategic pit stop and dedicate themselves to an intensive examination of the present and future state of their business," advises Andrew J. Sherman, co-founder and Chief Education Officer of Grow Fast Grow Right Enterprises, LLC. "Our 'Executive's Edge for Breakthrough Results' program provides business leaders with an intense one-day seminar, focused on growth planning and brainstorming, to give leaders fresh and cutting-edge ideas, approaches and strategies, to help them win the race and not crash or burn out."

This special, one-day-only seminar, to be held in Baltimore, at the University of Maryland, on Wednesday, April 5, for Maryland, D.C. and Virginia-area business leaders, is built around Sherman's own platform of Value Drivers for Successful Business Growth, and empowers leaders to:

1.  Define the impact of co-founder relationships and how they
        affect a business

    2.  Learn "Best Practices" from the big company playbook on
        leadership and governance in a post Sarbanes-Oxley world

    3.  Properly motivate and reward your team to contribute greatly
        to growth

    4.  Effectively leverage the expertise of boards and professional
        advisors

    5.  Build a strong growth foundation through business and
        strategic planning

    6.  Attract equity capital by knowing what your Equity Investors
        want

    7.  Educate yourself on the process: debt capital as an attractive
        growth driver

    8.  Learn to be smart and plan ahead when deploying your capital
        for acquisitions

    9.  Lower the cost of growth with intellectual asset management
        and harvesting

    10. Create or drive growth from protected IP products and systems
        through licensing and franchising

    11. Gain access to additional resources or channels for growth
        through joint ventures and strategic alliances

    12. Solidify weak growth foundations with channel relationship
        strengthening and management

In addition to Sherman's own presentation, there will also be an exclusive series of presentations by MD Lt. Gov. Steele; Kathleen Snyder, President, MD Chamber of Commerce; Peter Goldstein, Senior Editor of the Kiplinger Washington Editors; SmartCEO Publisher, Craig Burris; MD Dept. of Business and Economic Development Secretary, Aris Melissaratos; Tech Council of MD President, Julie Coons; Administaff VP of Sales, Marty Scirratt; as well as unlimited and invaluable networking opportunities.

According to one recent seminar attendee, "Andrew is an outstanding small business resource and great speaker. Everyone who attended his seminar walked away with not only meaningful and highly valuable information, but with some great new connections as well."

Maryland, D.C. and Virginia-area CEO's, senior executives, investors and business leaders in search of the right business growth strategies, are encouraged to attend this one-day event, to be held at the UMBC Technology Center Building at the University of Maryland. The power-packed event begins at 9:00 am and will wrap up 4:00 pm.

Registration is limited. For more information, and to register in advance, please visit www.growfastgrowright.com, or call 866-GRO-RITE.

About Grow Fast Grow Right

Grow Fast Grow Right Enterprises, LLC (GFGR) was launched by internationally recognized author, lecturer, lawyer and columnist on business growth and strategic planning issues, Andrew J. Sherman, and by William Poster, a veteran entrepreneur. GFGR offers a wide range of seminar programs with a focus on business growth strategies for small and mid-size companies. GFGR also provides consulting, training and investment banking services (both directly and in alliance with strategic partners). The GFGR target audience includes founders, executives and senior managers of companies in the $5 million to $150 million range in sales that are poised for business growth.

About Andrew J. Sherman

Andrew J. Sherman is co-founder and CEO (Chief Educational Officer) of Grow Fast Grow Right Enterprises LLC, and a senior partner at the law firm of Dickstein, Shapiro, Morin & Oshinsky LLP. Mr. Sherman is a recognized international authority on the legal and strategic aspects of business growth, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances and other types of growth strategies. Mr. Sherman is the author of 14 books on business growth and strategic planning, and has been an Adjunct Professor in the MBA programs at University of Maryland since 1989 and at Georgetown University since 1995. As an attorney, business advisor, lecturer and author, Mr. Sherman has experience working with a variety of Fortune 500 and emerging growth companies on a range of corporate issues, such as public and private capital formation, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances and other types of growth strategies.