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| Posted by: Michelle Girasole |
8/30/2006 7:47 PM |
On Monday, Wendy and I had the opportunity to participate in a working lunch with RI Congressman Patrick Kennedy, at an event hosted by the RI Small Business Development Center. The following entry is a letter reiterating the excellent point that Wendy made during the lunch: not all small businesses need venture funding, or acheive sales over $1 million; but we are an important part of our community, not to be forgotten by our legislators!
August 28, 2006
Dear Mr. Kennedy:
It was a pleasure to be at the Johnson & Wales/SBDC working lunch and I enjoyed hearing your comments. As I explained in my remarks, I came to Rhode Island five years ago from Massachusetts and I am an Executive Coach. The real estate prices and the airport originally brought us to Rhode Island as we travel around the country for our work. Fifty percent of our work is with Google and we coach executives and teams all over the United States.
John Cronin talked about having an Economic Summit with an outcome of developing some legislation to help all the organizations within Rhode Island work closer together for the sake of small business. I have been a volunteer counselor for SCORE and have continued to volunteer with the Center for Women and Enterprise since I came to Rhode Island. I have met many start up businesses and also had the opportunity through the Center for Women and Enterprise to initiate their GROW Program which is a program for women in business 3 years or more. As you know it’s a different set of challenges after 3 years, but still challenging.
My company, co-founded by my husband and I back in 1998, is a great example of a Rhode Island business. Our target market is corporate clients. We have had a long standing relationship with AiPSO, an insurance company in Rhode Island and would love to be able to do more business within Rhode Island and not always look outside Rhode Island’s borders for clients.
From my perspective as a business owner, I don’t need funding opportunities as much as I need business opportunities. There are many service/consultant businesses all around Rhode Island with revenues less than one million. We’re not building retail stores – we deal in education, training coaching whether in IT, Business, Marketing, Web Design etc. We all just need more business, networks and a clear vision of where we can go and request assistance.
So—legislation to clear up the confusion would be great. The SBDC and its fabulous team led by John is a great organization to be a focal point. Rhode Island is like the Cheers Pub—everybody knows your name. But—if you are a new kid on the block—you won’t know where the door is.
Thank you very much for your assistance on this matter.
Sincerely,
Wendy Hanson
President
Corley Hanson Associates |
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