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 23 years of business incubation.

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 small business development and emerging business assistance, SCA was named "One of Houston's Core Entrepreneurial Groups" by the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

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Click here for a Business Identity Package with the incubator.

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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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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.

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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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