How to Start a Business Incubator
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have a great deal of activity on this page and have met lots of very interesting and
dynamic people from around the world.
Our purpose is to have more incubators/accelerators created, become and remain
self-sufficient without gifts, grants, donations, contributions or <shudder>
government funding.
Forecasts indicate that a goodly number of those incubators not having achieved
self-sufficiency will be closing. It's not because of a lack of need in their respective
communities. The need is there. They will be closed because the funding is no longer
available and those operating the incubator didn't develop a business model that produced
self-sufficiency, continuing to rely, instead, on public funding. Further, there is
increased scrutiny about public funding being used to compete with private sector.
Private sector business
incubation? Yes, it can be done and yes, you can do it. We have. Take a look and should
you have questions, please don't hesitate to call or ask online.
We pioneered "hands-on" entrepreneurial
development programs to accelerate business growth for entrepreneurs in emerging
businesses by:
#1) the very precise design of a custom tailored development methodology
exactly formulated for the unique resources, attributes and aptitude of the individual entrepreneur;
#2) an Advisory Board, Mentor and Professional Development
Coach comprised of experienced
business owners;
#3) replacement of the cumbersome business
plan with the advanced Business
Overview®;
#4) the convenient availability of virtually every resource the start-up business
owner is likely to need in an environment
conducive to rapid growth;
#5) a powerfully effective weekly Business
Building Breakfast for networking, leadership training and business development.
The result is our clients have garnered
virtually every award for business growth in Houston, some nationally and even
internationally, and they continue to do so today.
All entirely without public funding, grants, gifts, contributions and donations. Our
experience is that for those incubators that really can grow client companies outside
funding is not required.
For you business owners, business consultants, attorneys, CPAs, financial advisors and
owners/managers of executive suites, you can obtain our comprehensive guide to starting
and operating a privately funded, self-sufficient incubator in your community here. You can also buy a
license to our Entrepreneurial
Development Program* for $5,000.00 and we'll provide complete training.
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 and
become self-reliant.
The ISSG
is the result of an independent research project commenced in 1977 to conclusively
demonstrate that:
1) Incubators do not require public funding.
A) A cooperative association
of local business owners, for instance, is a powerful and expedient route to funding a
business incubator while creating part of the training structure.
2) Incubators can be entirely self-sufficient.
A) Incubators can remain self-sufficient by a modest 5% royalty in
the client companies.
3) The hands-on business experience level of support personnel (mentors, guides, advisors,
counselors) determines the success rate of the client companies.
A) Avoid support personnel without successful hands-on
business ownership experience.
4) Incubators accelerate business growth.
A) Research
underwritten by Services Cooperative
Association.
B) Research
underwritten by The Kauffman Foundation.
5) Data compiled along the way:
A) Startup companies spent $102,236,640,000 in 2006 (latest data available and we
had to compile it).
Breakdown by states is available by clicking here.
B) Information on business incubators, click here.
C) Important notes about the business incubation industry, click here.
D) Valuable and inexpensive incubator guides, click here.
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
organization of business owners, 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, gifts 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 a reduced rate. Please call C. Dean
Kring, Director of Research
at 713-932-7495 x 13.
To find out more about the Incubator
Self-Sufficiency Group, call, write, e-mail
or visit today.
Click here for more information about visits to the SCA
incubators.
Click here for
considerations on starting an incubator.
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 for
your community, aspirations for growth and what your incubator might look like in 3 to 5
years.
"Building
Businesses?"


Your wish . . .
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can do for you
or call us at 713.932.7495x11

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