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Beat the Odds! Increase Your Chances of
Business Success
According to the SBA, only 20% of
all new start up companies that open will be in business
in 5 years. How can you beat those odds? By becoming a
tenant in the Renaissance Small Business Incubator.
Based on national studies, small businesses that join a
small incubator increase their success rates to over
80 percent!
Highlights of Renaissance’s
Incubator include:
- Monthly
consulting with management, marketing and finance
experts
- Specific
goal-setting and measurements to help tenants design
and implement solutions for all their business
issues
- A community
of other small business owners to reduce isolation
- Furnished
offices, conference and meeting rooms, copier/fax and
wireless technology
- Parking is
available in the building
Incubator Orientations happen every
Tuesday at 5:30pm. For more information, contact Paul
Terry at 415-348-6225 or send an e-mail to paul@rencenter.org
Graduate
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| Renona Wesley in
action | Renona began
her business with her eyes wide open (and her scissors
sharp!). Taking what she’d learned from Renaissance’s
Business Planning Class, Renona opened her beauty salon
– Alluring Styles – in the heart of the Bayview
in 2003. “Renaissance gave me the confidence and skills
I needed to push forward and make my dreams a reality,”
says Wesley.
What’s next for this star performer?
Wesley hopes to open a hair academy where aspiring
stylists and artists can be trained and helped along
with their career goals. After that, she also wants to
consider having a chain of salons. Visit Alluring Styles
at 4614 3rd Street, San Francisco;
415-648-6200.
Do you have a Graduate Success
you’d like us to know about? If you do, contact Janet
Lees at janet@rencenter.org
Welcome New
Renaissance Staff!
Renaissance is delighted to announce - and
welcome - the following new staff and
promotions:
- Andrea Cousins -
Director of
Development
- Monika Hudson -
Director, Bayview
Business Resource Center
- Lisa Kirvin -
Director of
Administration and Operations
- Agnes Chan and Ken Keough
- will be job sharing
the position of Program Coordinator, Bayview Business
Resource Center
- Sarah Price -
Americorps VISTA,
Bayview Business Resource
Center
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Up-Coming Programs
Renaissance Networking Mixer
Come
to connect with past graduates, meet new ones, and
reconnect with Renaissance staff. Don’t miss this chance
to expand your business contacts! FREE, December 7 from
5:30 – 7:30 at Varnish Fine Art, 77 Natoma Street, San
Francisco. Register
Here.
Renaissance Holiday Fair and Open
House
Join us for fun, food and shopping on
Wednesday, December 8th from 11:00 am – 7:00 pm at
Renaissance, 275 5th Street, San Francisco.
Download invitation
PDF
Networking
Skills for Small Businesses: Learn the fundamentals
for building your network and how to get focused, set
goals and achieve results. Presented by Derinda Gaumond,
Founder WorkIt.com. Monday, November 22 from 6:00 – 9:00
pm. Register at www.acteva.com/go/rencenter.
At the Bayview
Center:
Check the monthly workshop
schedule.
Renaissance Honored
Renaissance
received the Organization Business Advocate of the Year
Pride Award from the Golden Gate Business Association
(San Francisco’s LGBT Chamber of Commerce) at their 30th
Anniversary Gala event on October 21, 2004. Thanks
GGBA!
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