Services Cooperative Association, with the Rapid Growth System,* has been Houston's Emerging Business CrossRoads since 1983, and is proud sponsor to both the Entrepreneurial Development Center, Houston's first and Texas' oldest small business incubator and the Womens Business Center, the first incubator for women business owners in the United States.

Click here for some former incubator clients as we celebrate 24 years of business incubation.

A cooperative association is the most cost-effective way to build a business, especially in a tough economy.

SCA also provides a full range of services for companies wishing to relocate/expand to Houston, companies past the startup stage wishing to gain a larger market share, corporations wanting team intrapreneurship training for innovation/profit improvement, female executives seeking professional development and well-established, independent entrepreneurs seeking strategic planning, advisory board or mentor. For more information on these benefits, send an email here.

For women only, the Women's Business Assistance Forum conducts monthly assistance and new business development forums online.

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Solutions for Business Owners

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Solutions for Start-up Businesses

For work done in start-up business development, entrepreneurial education, small business incubation and emerging business assistance, SCA was named "One of Houston's Core Entrepreneurial Groups" by the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

Click here for information about seeking assistance.
Click here for starting a business.
Click here for an office in the business incubator.
Click here for a business identity package.
Click here for Coworking.
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Solutions for Incubator Developers

For work done with business incubation and economic development, SCA is "recognized by the National Business Incubation Association as an industry leader and pioneer in business incubation."

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Click here for starting an emerging business development group.
Click here to learn about Entrepreneurons.

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Solutions for consumers

Since 1983 SCA has been providing a wide variety of support services to business customers.

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Solutions for event planners and program managers

SCA can provide your group with entertaining, educational or motivational experts from a 30 minute presentation to an all day workshop.

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Services Cooperative Association provides hands on entrepreneurship education to the startup and emerging business owner in marketing, operations, administration and finance of the venture to accelerate business growth.

For companies seeking venture funding, the business incubators sponsored by Services Cooperative Association will take you through the "Proof of Concept", "Successful Business Model", "Due Diligence" and "Business Plan" processes, which are required by virtually all venture capital firms, angel investors and those individuals/organizations making private placements.

Services Cooperative Association maintains a seed fund and has been successful in virtually every form of business financing in both debt and equity.

With a history of interaction with literally thousands of businesses, there is so much more we can tell you about us.

However, we're vastly more interested in learning about you and what your requirements or interests might be.

Please use this site for the information it contains and exercise no hesitation in asking us specific questions regarding your needs.

Use our LIVE CHAT feature by clicking on the button to be found on any page. (Go ahead, it's quick, easy and fun!)

We've been "on the web" since 1985. Send us an email to tell us if the site was helpful or what we might add to make it easier for you to plan, start and grow a business.

Services Cooperative Association, its business incubators and the various economic development projects it sponsors, operate entirely without grants, donations, contributions or public funding.
We're independent and proud of it!

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