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My vote is to have it serve as part of Houston's entrepreneurial legacy and make it functional and profitable. Houston is already "Business Start-Up Capital of the World," so let's convert The Dome into a core facility for just that: "the place to go when you're starting a business in Houston." (Or Texas or the USA!)
In The Dome's 350,000 square feet, let's combine WiFi hot spots, areas for co-working, trendy cafes, start-up consultants, a big bank, marketing, sales training, a smaller bank or two, executive suite, publicist, brew pub, coffee shop, credit union, angel investors, lenders, real estate agency, convenience store, drug store, office supplies and furniture outlet, a business incubator/accelerator and make another portion into extended-stay residences so out-of-towners have accommodations while starting, expanding, relocating, acquiring a business in Houston and still another part into a residency business incubator - first in the world - just as the Astrodome was in its time.
The astute "powers-that-be" realize it's our small businesses that drive our economy. Let's make it easier to get a business started in Houston than any other place in the world, eh?
"Business start-up" is an industry for Houston that brings in outside money. Let's make it efficient, convenient and effective. What's your opinion? Send me an email cdkring@servicesca.org, even if it's just an "Amen, Brother."
And, perchance, should you be a business consultant, attorney, CPA, realtor, marketing company, bookkeeper, banker, insurance underwriter, seed fund/venture capital fund administrator or any other support entity serving in-bound/start-up/emerging business clients and choose to have a presence in this vibrant entrepreneurial hub, send me that information, too, and I'll go show it to the "Dome Destiny Decision Makers."
Should you have an interest in conducting business in the Dome give me a call, connect on Skype, send an email or come have breakfast with me any Wednesday morning.
I'll be at Corner Bakery Cafe, 9311 Katy Freeway (I-10 W at Echo Lane), 7:30 to 8:30 AM and we'll use this meeting as the opportunity to meet personally, face-to-face, and you'll share what services you want to provide.
Be sure to let me know you're coming.
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"For the past three years, Houston has created more new companies than any city in America."
The Economist - 06/23/2001 (Houston did it again in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 - last year tracked)
Houston has highest level of entrepreneurial activity among ~ Top 15 U.S. cities" according to latest Kauffman Index
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Ronald Reagan
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1884
A nickel gets you on Coney Island's Switchback Railway, a new amusement park ride carrying passengers on an undulating railroad track at up to 6 mph, running a length of 600 feet and an overall drop of 43 feet. America's first roller coaster will be a hit, spawning ever-bigger thrills.
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1911
Charles Flint founds the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (C-T-R) after merging smaller specialized firms, some of which got their start inventing new computing technology to tabulate the 1890 US Census. C-T-R will be renamed International Business Machines (IBM) in 1924.
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1963
Born into a decidedly earthbound proletariat family in rural Russia, Valentina Tereshkova has been chosen from over 400 applicants to become the world's first woman in space. She will orbit Earth 48 times on a flight lasting almost three days, and parachute into re-entry at 20,000 feet.
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"Houston's greatest energy resource is entrepreneurial energy."
C. Dean Kring
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