How to Start a Business Incubator

The Incubator Self-Sufficiency Group is a service bureau to the small business incubation industry for economic development corporations, communities, universities, consultants, career professionals and others interested in establishing or investing in small business incubators and for currently established incubators wishing to upgrade client development methodologies or transfer from not-for-profit to for-profit status.

Startup companies spent $102,236,640,000 in 2006.
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The ISSG was the first such in the nation to provide the comprehensive range of consulting services and technologies required for the diversity of the industry.

The ISSG is sponsored by Services Cooperative Association, a not-for-profit, educational corporation, and is responsible for the Texas Business Incubator Association's "Beta Project of Efficiency, Curriculum and Certification". The only certified business incubators in the nation are Texas business incubators via a program developed by the ISSG.

The ISSG provides for the education and enrollment of the community and the support technologies for all aspects of small business incubation including site selection, construction or renovation, staffing, staff training, client attraction - screening - retention - growth - support systems and equipment, computer networks and telephone systems designed for business incubators.

The ISSG provides answers for: feasibility, validation of incubator service area, type of facility, host community participation for the incubator project; reference contracts for incubator clients, mentors, advisors and advisory boards; reference guides for mentors, advisors and exit interviews, the relationship between not-for-profit sponsors and for-profit operators.

The incubator development methodology is uniquely tailored, case by case, to the specific resources of the host community to address the aspects of marketing, operations, administration and financing of the incubator from both public and private sectors.

The ISSG uses client development methodologies pioneered by Texas' oldest business incubator, the Entrepreneurial Development Center, a for-profit economic development corporation, which has operated since 1985 without one dime of public funding.

Incubator client development methodologies include an effective screening process for prospects,   advisory boards, mentors, a professional development coach, instruction in business plans, technology transfer, project commercialization, marketing strategies, accounting, finance, personal selling skills, entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial development training programs and manuals.

The ISSG practices self-sufficiency and, as a demonstration of capability, is entirely self-sufficient. No public funds, grants, contributions or donations are sought or accepted. Self-sufficiency is maintained entirely by fees for services and products to clients.

As a professional courtesy, we provide you with an initial telephone consult at no charge.

To find out more about the Incubator Self-Sufficiency Group, call, write, e-mail or visit today.

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There's much more that we can tell you about us (like we were the first people in the country to call incubators accelerators because incubators accelerate business growth). However, more importantly, we'd like to know much more about you, like your vision, aspirations for growth and what your incubator might look like in 3 to 5 years.

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