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Article: Oswego County launches $25K business-plan competition
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- The Business Journal - Central New York
- Article date:
- November 23, 2007
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OSWEGO - "Tom Golisano started Paychex with just $3,000 and a great idea - to make payroll outsourcing easy and affordable for small business," quips Austin Wheelock, economic-development specialist for Operation Oswego County (OOC) "He [Golisano] launched Paychex with just one employee in 1971. Today, Paychex employs 11,000 and had net revenues in 2006 of more than $1.9 billion. We want to create the next 'Paychex' in Oswego County," declares Wheelock.
The "we" in this case is OOC and the Small Business Development Center at SUNY Oswego (SBDC), which created an organizing committee of community and business leaders. Their purpose is to organize, fund, and draft rules for a $25,000 ...