A new website will try to close the long-standing communications gap between agencies and small businesses. The White House will launch BusinessUSA.gov before the end of the calendar year in an effort to make it easier for small firms to find all the services the government offers. "It will be an online portal that will connect people to all of the programs and resources in an actual and intuitive...

Leah Brown was one of Atlanta's regional MED Week Winners last year. And, here's where she stands this year. Leah Brown is classified by Inc Magazine's Fastest-Growing Privately Owned Firms as the #1 fastest growing African-American business, as one of the top ten women owned businesses, as 5th in healthcare and as #92 on the fastest growing privately held firm list.

AS PREPARED FOR DELIVERY Friday, August 27, 2010 CONTACT OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS 202-482-4883 Thank you, David, for the kind words and for your terrific leadership of the Minority Business Development Agency. On behalf of President Obama and all of us at the Department of Commerce, I join David in welcoming everyone to the 2010 MED Week. And let me take a moment here to thank the many sponsors of...

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