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You've noticed that some people have the amazing capability of turning defeat into victory.
And of overcoming any and all obstacles in their path to victory.
It's interesting to me that sometimes our government seems to miss such simple facts that are so obvious and compelling.
Take "entrepreneurship" for instance.
Entrepreneurship is absolutely, totally, completely color-blind and gender neutral.
Yet there are those who continually say that being a minority or female or gay requires special set-asides because these people are disadvantaged..
What!?!
Why?
Glad you asked!
So they can go get tax-payer money to set up special programs to "help" these "disadvantaged" business owners.
Have you any idea, by the way, of how much these people actually pay themselves for their "noble" cause.
Wow!
You'll find it shocking!
Talk about "gaming the system!"
And the largest such group in the United States, originally funded on a temporary basis to ease those negatively impacted in the great recession to become self-employed has no oversight leadership to monitor top level salaries.
Now I"m not talking about such groups as SCORE, who are essentially volunteers and don't draw a salary.
And I am speaking out about those other groups who set up charity programs (AKA programs funded by tax dollars) for those who don't want or need charity.
Let's talk about women business owners, for instance.
We surveyed thousands of women business owners and women business owners-to-be before setting up our Womens Business Center Incubator (first in the United States).
These thousands of women we talked with gave us their priorities in a very clear manner: "a level playing field" and
"a hand up."
They emphatically did not want a "hand-out" or "charity."
They did not consider themselves disadvantaged and in the process of forming their own companies began starting businesses at a faster rate than men.
They objected, vigorously, when individuals or organizations said they needed charity to get started or be successful.
Methinks those organizations out there still "gaming" the system, having no oversight controls or monitoring should be shut-down.
And let's get them to publish their salaries, all the way to the top, since it's "public funding" and you'll see what I mean.
We see chambers of commerce, networking groups and other self-funded organizations doing just fine, thank you, in developing Houston small businesses.
If and when you ever decide you want to start a business please heed this suggestion: make sure whomever you may be speaking with seeking advice has hand-on business ownership experience.
Have you thoughts or opinions?
Successful regard$,
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Those who are employed by the bureaucracy comprise the bureaucracy."
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2019 Houston Entrepreneurial Heroes
Lisa N. Alexander, President,
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Gary Bledsoe, Acting Dean, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Texas Southern University, Founder, TMSL Legal Entrepreneur Incubator
Gary Bucek, Interim Director,
San Jacinto College Small Business Development Center
Liz Laura Carreno, Outreach Director,
Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business Program
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Federation of Houston Professional Women
Suzan Deison, CEO/President/Founder,
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Llsa Garcia, Chair,
National Hispanic Professional Organization
Ro'Vin Garrett, Chair,
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Houston Business Journal
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Kelly McCormick, RED Labs Managing Director,
University of Houston
Judson Robinson III, President & CEO,
Houston Area Urban League
Marilyn Sander,
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Dr. Mohammad Tehrani, President,
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Sonia Thomas, President,
Houston Business Crossroads, Services Cooperative Association
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City of Houston Office of Business Opportunity
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On This Day In History - June 19th
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General Gordon Granger arrives on Galveston Island, Texas, with official news for the state's slaves: More than two years after the
Emancipation Proclamation
had been implemented, America's remaining slaves are freed. The day will be celebrated in Texas, and later in other states, as '
Juneteenth
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1867
Born in Vienna's Schönbrunn Palace as a descendant of the House of Habsburg, brother to Austrian emperor Franz Joseph I, and installed as the ruler of Mexico by France's Napoleon III,
Maximilian I ends his 3-year reign as Mexico's emperor in front of
Benito Juarez's firing squad.
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1910
After hearing a Mother's Day sermon,
Sonora Dodd inaugurates a
Father's Day celebration to honor her father, a Civil War vet and single dad of six children. Dodd's campaigning will take decades, but the third Sunday in June will catch on throughout the US as a day to honor dads.
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1975
For the first time in more than two centuries, a member of Britain's House of Lords is found guilty of murder. But
Richard John Bingham, the 7th Earl of Lucan, is not present to receive sentencing for the bludgeoning death of his children's nanny, having disappeared months previously.
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