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WE CAN WORK IT OUT!

With over 30 years of entrepreneurial life cycle experience, we know what is required to have a successful business. We Can Work It Out provides experts in the area of marketing, nonprofit start-up assistance, business packaging, franchising, invention, trademark/patent, funding, asset protection, corporate anonymity, and buy-sell/acquisition assistance. Our BIZ-TRAIN ACADEMY can help change the trajectory of your business. Our team has the expertise, common and book knowledge, life experience, and through trial and error have experienced a lot of things in business.  As a result of these experiences we can help you get over any hurdle with ease. Why lose time, energy, and money if we can help you avoid that uncomfortable feeling. With our strong, but helpful hand we will help you aim high and reach the next level in your business's lifecycle.  

  

Having a mentor in business is as crucial as oxygen.  Do you think you can survive without oxygen?    

Having a mentor in business is as crucial as oxygen.  Do you think you can survive without oxygen?  We have created a guide to starting your own business. It will help you determine if you're cut out to operate a business and will help you lay the groundwork for your new company. When you're ready to move forward with your idea, use our business startup checklist to make sure you complete all the important steps to launch the business. 



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Business Incubation Process

 

Our Vision

We Can Work It Out (WCWIO) has a vision for all underserved youth and young adults in the U.S. to have access to resources and services for creating wealth, assets, and healthy communities through business ownership. 

 

Our Mission

Create economic opportunities for underserved youth and young adults throughout the United States. We're engineering transformational change through Research, Incubation, Convening & Advocacy to foster a robust and inclusive marketplace.  

 

Our Story

  We help expand access to digital marketing expertise to entrepreneurs from all socioeconomic backgrounds by preparing them with skills and information that levels the playing field.


“Incubation is a unique and highly flexible combination of business development processes, infrastructure and people, designed to nurture and grow new and small businesses by supporting them through the early stages of development. and change." (UKBI.2007) 


Processes and practices: 

 There are 4 key value-adding activities:
1) the diagnosis of business needs,

2) the selection and monitoring of the  services provided to the firms,

3) the investment of capital, and

4) the access to the working, network of an incubator 


Efficiency and effectiveness: 

Business development of a venture is the main function and main reason for existence. In other words, to grow valid business ideas and entrepreneurs into real business. 

  

It should be clear that Business Incubation is a targeted approach providing a range of focused services to relatively small businesses. When evaluating public policy, the results achieved by the incubation process needs to be considered alongside that of other methods of delivering support services to new and existing enterprises.

  

We are now confronting the issue of scaling operations efficiently, and increasingly using the Internet to provide lower-cost services to a larger client base. We are using the Internet to provide some "virtual incubation" services. These services  include information resources and web based toolkits, as well as access to email and the Internet, and we are increasingly experimenting with more complex virtual and remote service offerings.




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An entrepreneurial spirit is at the heart of the work we do

Wake Up Now - Don’t let the past dictate who you are

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Henry Hawthorne Co-Founder WCWIO

Henry Hawthorne Co-Founder WCWIO

Henry Hawthorne Co-Founder WCWIO

We Can Work It Out advocates the  creation of community-based organizational partnership (entrepreneurial ecosystems) that supports and empowers youth from the cradle and throughout their career through (1) Community Schools; (2) Safe and Strong Neighborhoods; and (3) Economic Empowerment.

Mr. Hawthorne, a Vietnam Vet, co-founded the West 

We Can Work It Out advocates the  creation of community-based organizational partnership (entrepreneurial ecosystems) that supports and empowers youth from the cradle and throughout their career through (1) Community Schools; (2) Safe and Strong Neighborhoods; and (3) Economic Empowerment.

Mr. Hawthorne, a Vietnam Vet, co-founded the West Florin Place Business Incubator in 1993 with his Mentor Alphonso Geiger.

As Director of Training and Facilities Management, Henry provided a full range of administrative support to business incubator clients along with performing community outreach to ascertain the needs of our target population.

As the Facilities manager of the property, Henry was also an owner of the property that housed the business incubator. He represented the partnership and incubator in all dealings with Federal, State and local agencies and other County officials on fiscal and administrative matters.

Henry believes in inspiring youth and young adults to do extraordinary things. We know that tomorrow’s jobs and economy are going to be created by leaders and entrepreneurs we foster today. Not every youth will be an entrepreneur when he or she grows up, but we can inspire every young person to have an entrepreneurial spirit: to lead confidently, think critically and creatively, be financially responsible, and understand the value of teamwork. 


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Henry Hawthorne Co-Founder WCWIO

Henry Hawthorne Co-Founder WCWIO

Side projects and side hustles can become million-dollar businesses. Maybe you want to start a business. Or maybe you want to expand your business into a new area. Or maybe you don't want to quit your full-time job--at least not yet. You're trying to find a side hustle.  

 If you want to build a successful business, you need to be laser fo

Side projects and side hustles can become million-dollar businesses. Maybe you want to start a business. Or maybe you want to expand your business into a new area. Or maybe you don't want to quit your full-time job--at least not yet. You're trying to find a side hustle.  

 If you want to build a successful business, you need to be laser focused on a single goal, right? 

 Sure, conventional wisdom says we can't multitask and need to stay away from shiny object syndrome. But through my constant work with building and launching side projects, I've learned that startups are far from conventional. If you want to be successful--truly successful--you can't follow the path that's already been taken. 

Think about the most innovative, industry-leading businesses: Apple, Facebook, Google, SpaceX. How many people believe they had it all figured out when they first started out?

The truth is that they were all born out of experiments--ideas that seemed crazy at the time, but they tried them anyway.

This spirit of adventure, however, is sorely missing from our current working environment.

Despite all the hype around personal side hustles, and the importance of hobbies and interests outside your job, entrepreneurs aren't as willing to put their money where their mouth is and fund those crazy, moonshot ideas that could become million- or even billion-dollar businesses.

And this is a mistake. Side projects aren't just distractions. In fact, some of the world's most successful companies started as side projects.

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Close the Deal

Henry Hawthorne Co-Founder WCWIO

Close the Deal

   Minority business development/packaging by We Can Work It Out (WCWIO) is the process through which business opportunities, capital and know-how are brought together for the benefit of minority group entrepreneur/operator (E/O) by providing a maximum input of technical assistance and involvement of resources in order to produce a plan f

   Minority business development/packaging by We Can Work It Out (WCWIO) is the process through which business opportunities, capital and know-how are brought together for the benefit of minority group entrepreneur/operator (E/O) by providing a maximum input of technical assistance and involvement of resources in order to produce a plan for a viable business enterprise.  


“To many in this country, the inner-city (usually older, poorer, and more densely populated central section of a city) is an area of economic disaster. 

Through the Model Cities Program[1]

CEBO found the inner-city a land of economic potential. They found that the inner-city contains markets which pumps millions of dollars of buying power into the nation’s economy. The inner-city abounds in manpower resources and talent that has yet to be fully realized for its rich potential.” We have surmised that with management assistance and financial resources, inner-city communities can respond to the opportunities which awaits them. 

 Through the commitments of city and county governments, acting in concert with private and community-based organizations and inner-city residents, opportunities can be opened up for the economic empowerment of urban centers. Our common objective here is to help create healthy enterprises that characterize a wholesome community. 

    

Inner-city business development still presents new kinds of challenges. New business development processes must be put to use. The job ahead must be accomplished at the community level. The augmentation of community capability to solve community problems is our goal. At the same time, leadership from local public officials, established businesses and the financial/banking community must work together on this common objective. 

    

WCWIO is advancing the “state of the art” of business formation/packaging for minorities and the underserved. We are a “packaging organization”. We can provide direct assistance to others working in the field of minority economic empowerment. 



[1] National Council for Equal Business Opportunity Inc. (CEBO) program chosen by Dept. of H.U.D. (1971)

A Plan for African American & Community Renewal  by Dr. Ralph Steele.

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AIN'T NO STOPPING US NOW

Without HOPE there's no effort!

WE HAVE A RECIPE FOR SUCCESS

Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects. To learn is to acquire knowledge or skill. Learning also may involve a change in attitude. Learning is not just a change in attitude; it is a change in the way a man thinks, understands, or feels. Learning some things depends on other perceptions which have preceded these learning’s, and on the availability of time to sense and relate these new things to the earlier perceptions. Thus, sequence and time are necessary. After studying the theoretical aspect of a subject matter, understanding its practical implications is one of the prime steps of learning. 


We believe it is a fundamental right for anyone who has a big idea to be able to bring it to life. We work with entrepreneurs, empower them with tools and resources, and work to break down barriers that stand in the way of starting and growing their own businesses. 


We are a grassroots organization that strives to empower and improve the health and well-being of under-served communities. We Can Work It Out Inc. (WCWIO), is a nonprofit tax exempt 501(c)(3) organization that was organized in 2014. Think of us as a team of consultants working to expand the possibilities for our youth and our community. We collaborate with other grassroots organizations to ensure that our vision and mission comes to life.


“Burn your resume and create a job,” is the clarion call of entrepreneur Scott Gerber. Concerned about creating world-class leaders for a global economy, he and others lament the absence of an entrepreneurial mindset in today’s students. Some even decry the American education system as creating “good employees but not good entrepreneurs.” Entrepreneurial skills are valuable to students, whether they see themselves going into business or not. Curiosity, creativity and innovation need to be deliberately cultivated in schools at a time when public policies are thwarting those attributes. 

  

Our proposed entrepreneurial program presents an innovative path to prepare students for their creative futures. We embrace inspiration, creativity, courage, direct actions and fortitude. Our entrepreneurial program is a living laboratory to demonstrate that proposition and support the ultimate objective: to prepare students for the Creative Economy they will enter.

  

Our program offers participants an authentic entrepreneurship experience. In this curriculum, students have the opportunity to create and fully develop their own product or service. Real entrepreneurs and business experts serve as volunteer coaches and mentors guiding student teams through the processes of developing hypotheses about a business concept, testing those hypotheses, adapting, and continually learning and improving. This cycle of experimentation is combined with foundational business content such as marketing and finance.


Student entrepreneurs will demonstrate their learning through explanation, interpretation and application of content to their team’s real business idea. Students learn from a team of experts, volunteer coaches, mentors, and the classroom facilitator. Coaches provide authentic business expertise in a specific area. They come into the classroom for a short period of time (1-2 hours) to provide all students with a real-world context for a specific curricular area. The coach and classroom facilitator plan and present together. The coach’s focus is on curricular content, not war stories. Mentors are assigned to one team and follow them through the entire process providing participants with feedback and encouragement. 

  

Henry Hawthorne (Co-Founder and CEO-WCWIO) knows that talent is everywhere, but opportunity isn’t. He leads operations, outreach, program design, and fundraising for WCWIO/BTA Sacramento. His focus is to meet the needs of our young entrepreneurs. Henry co-founded and built a successful business incubator for new and existing businesses in 1994, serving over 15 entrepreneurs.




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