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Over the years we've had the good fortune to have worked with some very talented people.
And while our clients have ranged from pre-startups to the largest companies in the world, our focus has been on small business.
Small business is big business and Houston's greatest energy resource is its entrepreneurial energy.
So it wasn't by accident that we've attracted these talented small business owners.
We provide them services that no one else is providing.
You'll recall that the 1st rule of entrepreneurship is "find the niche."
We found and developed the niche of business incubation here in Houston, with Houston's first small business incubator, which became Texas' oldest.
What made our business incubation so convenient to client companies is that they had access to virtually every resource they were likely to use conveniently located under one roof.
The second factor leading to our incubators' success is that entrepreneurs are highly individualistic.
"One size does not fit all."
Each case is unique.
So not only did our business incubators (which included the first Womens Business Center in the U.S.) provide conveniently available support services, we also provided total flexibility in the way the clients could access and utilize these resources.
"Only pay for what you need."
The final factor was our participation with a royalty interest in our client's growth.
If our client companies didn't grow, we didn't make any real money.
And because we are very good at what we do, we are entirely willing to share the risk.
We still are and we still do and our incubators were also the first in the world to be virtual.
Mentor, advisory board, professional development coach, custom tailored development methodology all conveniently available to our clients via the World Wide Web.
We're always just "a click away."
Our specialty is service companies because all the forecasts predict service companies as employment leaders for many years to come.
So a business cooperative focusing on startup service companies with virtual business incubation tailored to specific entrepreneurial needs.
Services Cooperative Association, since 1983 and operating entirely without grants, gifts, donations or public funding.
We're business owners, independent, self-funded and very proud of it.
Our clients have won virtually every award for business growth in Houston, some nationally and some even internationally.
We grow companies, advance careers and move new ideas forward.
May we assist with yours?
Join us for breakfast any
Wednesday
and discover the benefits of "The Co-Op" for your interests.
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(At 30,000 LinkedIn c
ontacts.)
"The essence of Entrepreneurship:
Find a niche, makes sales, manage to profits and repeat the process."
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What you learn in 6 months with The Co-Op
will last a lifetime with your business.
Connect ~ Learn ~ Grow ~ Prosper
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Houston CrossRoad$ Business Building Breakfast
The Group For Growth®
Wednesday, February 26th, 2020
Come tell us what's next for you
and what we can do to assist?
Motivational Speaker:
"Metaphors and More"
Jerry Cooper ~ Chairman, Services Cooperative Association
Featured Speaker:
"Maximize Efficiency & Productivity"
Sonia Thomas ~ AOFL Business Solutions
7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
Corner Bakery Cafe - 9311H Katy Freeway (I-10W at Echo Lane)
Check-in starts at 7:00 AM
Yes you can skip breakfast, attend remotely, hear the speakers and introduce yourself.
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Business of the Week:
Graphic Artist
Should you be in this type of business,
please attend for special recognition!
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Seniorpreneurs
Are you 65+, have an idea and want to consider it
as a part/full time business?
More information
here
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Featured Networking Group:
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How smart ar
e you? Take the test and find out!
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Virtual:
Mentor,
Advisory Board,
Master Mind Group,
Professional Development Coach
Custom Tailored Development Methodology
Friday Forum via Skype
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BOSS ~ The Black Experience in Business
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Join us as we celebrate
37 Years of Service to Houston!
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Join the largest veteran-focused business plan
competition in the country.
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2020 Spring Thing Car Show - Katy, Texas
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"SHOW N TELL N SMILE N SELL"
38th Annual Spring Trade Show & B2B EXPO
After Tax Day Celebration
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38th Annual Entrepreneurial Workshop
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Don't miss this!
Ethics and integrity workshop
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On This Day In History - February 26th
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1815
Having spent
300 days of exile on an island off the coast of Italy,
Napoleon Bonaparte escapes. After future conquests fail he will again be exiled, but this time to the remote South Atlantic.
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1919
President Woodrow Wilson signs the Grand Canyon National Park Act, designating the mile-deep natural wonder as a US national park. In its first year the park will get around 44,000 visitors. It will go on to attract more than 5 million visitors annually.
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1965
South Korea sends its first troops to Saigon as part of US President Lyndon Johnson's effort to build an international coalition of fighting forces in Vietnam. More than 300,000
South Koreans will serve in the war by 1973.
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1993
A group of terrorists detonate a truck bomb, causing an
immense explosion in the underground parking garage located below the North Tower of New York City's World Trade Center. The blast is intended to bring down both the North and South Towers of the trade center complex. It won't succeed, but will kill six and wound more than 1,000.
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For Entrepreneurial Knowledge
presenting
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Services Cooperative Association
Market Expansion ~ Business Development
Entrepreneurial Education ~ Professional Growth
Since 1983!
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A not-for-profit cooperative association of independent businesses, founded from an economic development research project on the
importance of small business development conducted by the
Houston Chamber of Commerce in the late 1970's.
With our first Co-Op meeting held March 14, 1983, to date we've worked with 65,638
people, generating 44,986 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 country 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 Division conclusively demonstrated "entrepreneurship" could be taught in a classroom environment, resulting in colleges and universities, globally,
commencing entrepreneurial courses.
Here are some of the organizations we've worked with.
We grow companies, build careers and advance ideas.
Among our projects for 2020:
We're asking our government to please stop tax-payer
funding of
those Small Business Development Centers across
the U.S. which
knowingly compete
with tax-paying businesses.
Should you have a business that has been negatively impacted by
SBDC competition let us know.
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