GREEN MANGOS CATERING

Business: Start-up catering company that creates gourmet meals for private, business and group gatherings. Founded: 2007

Headquarters: Minneapolis

Web: www.greenmangoscatering.com

Employees: On-call cooks and servers

Executives: Thao and Thomas Moore, proprietors

2008 revenue: $25,000 projected

Strategy: Growing slowly through word-of-mouth referrals, keeping overhead low and networking with businesses and individuals to find events to cater.

• Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development's dislocated-worker program: www.deed.state.mn.us/dw

• Minnesota Job Partners, nonprofit agency administering dislocated-worker services: www.jobpartners.org

• Minnesota Teamsters Service Bureau, nonprofit, dislocated-worker services: www.mntsb.org