"Recognized as an industry leader and pioneer in small business incubation" by the National Business Incubation Association and as "One of Houston's core entrepreneurial groups" by the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and "Ranked the #1 new business development group in Houston" by Houston Proud! We grow companies, build careers and advance ideas!
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A not-for-profit cooperative association of independent
business owners for market expansion, business development,
entrepreneurial education and professional growth.
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Co-Op companies have won virtually every award for business growth in Houston, some nationally, some even internationally. |
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Come • Call • Click - Chat - Connect - We're here for you! |
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Dear Reader,
Entrepreneuron: the smallest energy particle of economic development and having certain quantifiable characteristics identified as resources, attributes and aptitude for the entrepreneurial process in which to undertake a business initiative for success consisting of quality of life, standard of living and return to community, also expressed as having fun, making money and doing good.
Although capable of individual or isolated location, these particles generally can be found in clusters, having an attraction or affinity for one another and are apparent in nature involving innovation, imagination and creativity.
Entrepreneurons comprise the greatest economic energy resource in the United States.
While there are many theories, no one can positively prove the origin of Entrepreneurons.
However, all indications are that they are formed as a by-product of certain situations and conditions associated with commerce.
Entrepreneurons tend to thrive, propagate, expand and increase in a free enterprise system, excepting in those environments which bureaucrats are found to predominate. Bureaucracies, in a manner not totally understood, acting as the anti-matter of individual or collective Entrepreneurons.
A truism being that if one must sin, it is better to sin against God rather than a bureaucracy, for God will forgive you, whereas the bureaucracy never will.
The typical Entrepreneuron is atypical, being unique in personality, however sharing a central trait or core quality known as understanding and operating at risk, also expressed conversely as no guts, no glory.
Entrepreneurons transcend all ethnic, gender, age and religious criteria, classifications and boundaries, the only universal application being themselves and entrepreneurial exponent.
Call me at LinkedIn or Skype, when you're ready to verify entrepreneurial energy and let's begin sooner rather than later, please.
The perfect next step when you are an Entrepreneuron seeking entrepreneurship training, entrepreneurial education, entrepreneurial development, and entrepreneurial expansion is the Entrepreneurial Assessment®.
Or join us for breakfast any Wednesday - virtual or in person - and we'll discuss you venturing into entrepreneurship.
Successful regard$,
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"Some people continually overcome life's difficulties while others are continually overcome by them."
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Connect! ~ Learn! ~ Grow! ~ Prosper!
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Motivational Message:
"Entrepreneurons"
C. Dean Kring ~ Director of Research, Services Cooperative Association
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Featured Speaker:
"Brain Storming"
Paul A. Barela, Past Chair ~ Services Cooperative Association
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"Property Needed!"
1,500 sq.ft. to start for dance studio and class rooms.
Realtors invited to assist in location of space.
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Business:of The Week:
Realtor
Should you be in this business, please attend for special recognition
Houston Crossroads Business Building Breakfast
Wednesday, August 26th ~ 7:15 AM to 8:30 AM
9311-H Katy Freeway ~ (I-10 West at Echo Lane)
Seated breakfast in the private dining room.
Cost is only $20.00
Don't let the Coronavirus outbreak slow your networking productivity! Attend the meeting remotely via Skype, enjoy the speakers, introduce yourself and we'll also send you contact information on everyone present so you can do your follow-up. All for only $5.00!
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"The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much."
Ronald Reagan
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HOW SMART ARE YOU?
TAKE THE EXAM AND FIND OUT!
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RECOGNIZING INDUSTRY LEADERS |
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FEATURED NETWORKING GROUP |
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Mentoring Mondays
10:00 AM to 2:00 PM
August 24th, 31st
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Winning Business in Difficult Markets |
Tuesday, August 25th ~ 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
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Drastic Steps For Marketing Success
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Friday Forum
Noon until 1:00 PM via Skype.
August 28th
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2020 Winners to be highlighted include:
Entrepreneurial Success
Martin Bedolla – Bedolla Meat Group, Inc.
Minority Small Business of the Year
Zawadi Bryant & Anastasia Gentles, M.D. – NighLight Pediatric Urgent Care
Woman Owned Small Business of the Year
Nancy A. Garcia – Noble Machine, LLC.
Veteran Small Business of the Year
Ted Gillis – Paveloc Plus
Small Business Exporter of Year
Bob Miltenberger – NearshoreNetworks
8(a) Graduate of Year
Paula Mendoza – Possible Missions, Inc.
Small Business Media Advocate of the Year
Natalie Harms – InnovationMap (Gow Media)
Innovation (SBIR/STTR) Recipient of the Year
Atul Varadachary, Leo Linbeck III, Mark Worscheh – Fannin Innovation Studio
Small Business Champion of the Year
Fernando De La Pena Llaca – Aexa Aerospace, LLC.
Small Business Person of Year
Michelle Mitcham & Amber Humphrey – Open Door Pediatric Therapy
Tuesday, September 8, 2020
11:30am to 12:30pm CST
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Introduction: "Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership"
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Thursday, September 10th ~ 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM
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Greater Houston Conference for Women 2020
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1346
As King Philip VI's French forces move into position at the Battle of Crécy, they vastly outnumber the troops of England's Edward III. But the English army makes pioneering use of the longbow rather than the more cumbersome and less effective crossbow used by the French and most other European infantries. Edward's English forces also surprise their enemy by introducing the cannon as a battlefield weapon. This combined-arms approach secures a surprise victory against the much larger French army.
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1791
Entrepreneur-inventor John Fitch receives a US patent for his steam-powered boat, after years of experiments result in a craft that can travel at a top speed of 8 miles per hour. It'll take two more decades and engineer Robert Fulton's involvement before steamboats become a profitable enterprise.
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1959
The British Motor Corporation shows off its newest auto, the 'Mini.' Developed as an answer to fuel rationing brought on by the Suez Crisis, the car gets great mileage, and although terrifically tiny at only 10 feet long, it can still seat four adult passengers.
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A not-for-profit cooperative association of independent service business owners, founded from an economic development research project on the importance of startup business development
We operate entirely without grants, gifts, donations, contributions or public funding.
We don't have our hand out and we are NOT your tax dollars at work!
We're independent business owners, entirely self-funded and very proud of it.
When you want assistance with your business, seek only those who have actual hands-on business ownership experience. You'll be glad you did!
Since our first Co-Op meeting held March 14, 1983, we've worked with 65,647 people, generating 45,151 tips, leads, referrals and items of new business, generating revenues exceeding one billion dollars, founded the Entrepreneurial Development Center - Houston's first and Texas' oldest small business incubator and co-working space, First Houston Small Business Seed Capital Fund - literally the first small business seed capital fund in Houston, the Womens Business Center - first business incubator for women business owners in the United States with residency space and the Virtual Business Center - the first remote business incubator in the world - all totally without public funding, grants, gifts, donations or contributions.
Our Entrepreneurial Research conclusively demonstrated A) "entrepreneurship" could be taught in a classroom environment, resulting in colleges and universities, globally, commencing entrepreneurial courses and B) that women starting businesses were seeking a hand-up and a level playing field rather than a hand-out or charity and C) that business incubators actually accelerated business growth resulting in the next generation being named accelerators and D) incubators/accelerators could be entirely self-sufficient by charging a modest royalty interest in client companies and E) that entrepreneurship was color blind and gender neutral.
Here are some of the organizations we've worked with.
We grow companies, build careers and advance ideas.
May we assist with yours?
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Call: 713.932.7495
Sally Smart: service@servicesca.org
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