SCORE Mentor: Ron Consolino

Beth Shapiro

Jerry Hoffman and Raj Mashruwala
plus several others

Texas Swim Academy won first place and was awarded $12,000 along with a media package from Small Business Today Magazine and Talk Show.

Second place winners included Three Brothers Bakery with an $8,000 prize and third place was awarded to HD2Menus.com with a $4,000 prize.

Honorable mentions of $1,000 was awarded to Got Dirty Blinds?, LLC.

Texas Swim Academy was the winner of SBA's Entrepreneurial Success Award in 2014.  Read more

Three Brothers Bakery was the winner ofSBA's Family owned Business Award for 2013.  Read more

Entrepreneur Sherri Luehr lauds score counselors (Oliver Mann, Rital Leader and the Principal Advisor, Rob Gay) for their role in guiding her successful launch of Parachute Consulting ... read more

Mobile Cuisine: Matti Merrell and her husband Rodney Perry, of Green Seed Vegan & Elixir Bar use a food truck to sell their vegan cuisine. On weekdays, it is parked at 2305 Wheeler in the Third Ward. On weekends, they take it to events around town.

Omar and Amirah Saleem can turn around a passport or visa in 24 hours at their A1 Passport and Visa store in Houston. A1 Passport charges anywhere from $49 to expedite a passport in 11 to 15 days to $249 for same-day service. 

In 1998 Thomas Tsan and Kim Tang founded TK Consultants, a data security consulting firm providing governance, risk and compliance solutions to Fortune 1000 as well as medium sized businesses that employ Systems Applications Programming (SAP) software.

Anthony D. Newton, Jr. founded Kaduceus, Inc. to provide “Hands-On” career training to high school students interested in pursuing a career in the healthcare industry. programs include Pharmacy Technician, Medical Billing and Coding, and Veterinarian Technician

In July 2008 Kairy-tate Barkley founded French Cuff Boutique,a women’s apparel and accessories boutique located at the crossroads of Houston’s West University Place and Bellaire neighborhoods with the goal of providing a personal, convenient, and stylish shopping experience in an intimate neighborhood setting.

In 2001 Dr. Yamile Jackson, PhD  founded Zakeez, Inc., an ergonomics and human factors company that specializes in the research and development of innovative and unique products and services that not only improve the quality of life of children, but that help parents and babies feel closer to each other.

Justin Perryman founded Global Service Group in early 2007 to assist businesses with finding government and government contractor bidding opportunities and developing proposals to succeed more effectively in the acquisition process.