Dear Reader,
"Winners never quit.

Quitters never win."

Who said that?

I have been in research for essentially all of my professional life, starting way back when with Pan American Petroleum who brought us Amoco.

Uh huh, for true!

You remember them.

They had the first unleaded gasoline.

Some of the things I've worked on provided solutions in a few minutes or hours or days or weeks or months or even years . . .

Some of the items I've been working on I'm still working on.

Fortunately, I enjoy the challenge.

Do what you love and let your passion be demonstrated in the results you produce.

Give me a call or join me at Corner Bakery Cafe, 9311H Katy Freeway (I-10 W at Echo Lane), 7:30 to 8:30 AM Wednesday, February 16th and we'll discuss your capacity for a rewarding and productive love/work relationship!

Successful regard$,
"Be short on promises and long on delivery."
EFFECTIVE BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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Wednesday, February 16th ~ 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
Motivational Speaker:
"Patience, Please"
C. Dean Kring - Director of Research, Services Cooperative Association
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ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY FEBRUARY 16TH
1804
Disguised as Maltese sailors, Lt. Stephen Decatur and his men board the USS Philadelphia, an American vessel run aground in Tripoli Harbor and held by Barbary pirates. The ship is considered too valuable to be allowed to remain in the hands of the pirates, so Decatur and his men set her alight.
1878
Amid roiling economic controversy and a financial panic, the United States Congress passes the Bland-Allison Act, requiring the minting of silver coins to be put into circulation as dollar coins. Gold coins will be preferred among Americans, however, giving rise to the gold standard economy.
1923
British archaeologist Howard Carter unseals a doorway at the back of a tomb buried under the sands of Thebes, Egypt, and after more than 3,000 years, the pharaoh Tutankhamun has a visitor.
1960
The USS Triton begins 'Operation Sandblast,' the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe. The voyage will generally follow the overwater route Magellan sailed more than four centuries earlier.
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"Houston's greatest energy resource is entrepreneurial energy."
C. Dean Kring
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We are a not-for-profit cooperative association of independent
business owners for market expansion, business development,
entrepreneurial education and professional growth.

We were created from a priority research project of the Houston Chamber of Commerce in the late 1970's on the importance of start-up and emerging small businesses. We brought you Houston's first small business incubator, which became Texas' oldest, the first co-working space in Texas, the first Womens Business Center in the United States and the first Residency Incubator and first Virtual Accelerator Program in the World. Our clients have ranged from pre-start-ups to the largest companies in the United States! We clearly demonstrated that entrepreneurship could be taught, that business plans were not a requirement for a successful business, that women were starting businesses at a faster rate than men and that entrepreneurship was color-blind and gender neutral. Our start-ups have won virtually every award in Houston for business growth, some nationally, some even internationally and some of our established client companies are now household names in Houston. We operate entirely without grants, gifts, donations or public funding. We don't have our hand out and are NOT your tax dollars at work! We are totally self-sufficient!

We grow companies, build careers and advance ideas!
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