"The Group for Growth."©
Services Cooperative Association delivers products, services, information, training and customers to accelerate the development, efficiency and profitability of Co-Op companies, resulting in these companies having won virtually every award for business growth in Houston, some nationally and internationally. Join us for breakfast any Wednesday morning to learn more.
"Transforming vision
into reality,
business by business."©
The Co-Op is a self-funded, not-for-profit, cooperative association of business owners, former business owners, and future business owners - an educational, sales, marketing, business development, mentoring, incubation and support organization for the start-up, early stage and poised-for-growth entrepreneur.
For
comprehensive,
easy to understand
and implement information,
support,
consulting and services for incubator
operators,
managers, owners,
sponsors,
and
developers,
go here.
View
video
on business Incubators
here.
"One size does NOT fit all!"
We're not a charity. We don't have our hand out. We're certainly not
your tax dollar at work. We're of business, by business,
for business. We're financially independent, proud of it and teach our Associates how
to be that way, too.
Dance here
for
"The Co-Op Advantage!"©
here for business resources,
here
for business mentoring,
here for
business incubation,
here
for business consulting,
here
for business showcases,
here for business tips
& tricks,
here for business development,
here for business growth guides,
here for
cooperative office spaces,
here for products/services
available,
here for Entrepreneurial Assessment
©,
here for facts
about free business advice,
here to learn the myths about
business plans,
and here to discover the
travesty of tax-funded
competition negatively impacting your business.
You can be ANYWHERE
in the country and participate in these business development programs because we were also
first in the world with remote/virtual
access where we create for you a custom designed development methodology, complete with an
advisory board, mastermind group, mentor and professional development coach.
Your
Wish?
Having recognized that perceived needs of beginning businesses are significantly
different from the bottom looking up than from the top looking down, in early 1977, The Co-Op
commenced original
research in start-up business development, entrepreneurial education, and emerging
business assistance in order to accurately identify and supply all the
required advancement components for early stage business owners.
Since 1983,
The Co-Op has conducted a weekly business development breakfast,
the oldest in the United States, to train early stage entrepreneurs in the experiential
skills necessary for rapid business advancement.
Our Specialty
is business
development for service companies, where The Co-Op provides the environment, resources, education and
methodology to
accelerate business growth. The Co-Op is proud sponsor to Houston's first and
Texas' oldest
business incubator, founded the first Womens Business Center in
the nation, the First
Houston Small Business Seed Capital Fund and the first Virtual Incubation
Program in the world. All totally without gifts, grants, donations,
contributions or public funding.
"We don't enable. We
Empower!"®
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For the
complete turnkey startup program
for your business in Houston, click here.
Columbus took a chance and discovered a new world.
(He also took only
experienced seafarers to guide him.)
"CHOOSE EXPERIENCE
and discover there is a whole, new world awaiting you, too."
C. Dean Kring
Director of Research
Business/Career Mentor
Economic
Development Advisor
For
starting,
expanding,
relocating or acquiring
a business
in Houston
CLICK HERE
When it comes to starting a business,
growing a business, business incubation, business incubation consulting, mentoring,
professional development or training for you or your staff, you've come to the right
place, just as more than
2,000,000 people (annually) have before you.
Click on either of the two links below to discover what The Co-Op can do for you.
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