https://tonywalkerpost.com/root-philosophy/
Originally Posted: January 1, 2017
Updated: April 15, 2018
Updated: October 20, 2020
From the very beginning in 1978, it has been my goal to provide the vision, resources, and confidence necessary for the development of the Advantage Co as a business experience for those willing to take the full measure of the challenge. This approach has energized our Root Philosophy for nearly 40 years, and it has been our good fortune to build a number of world-class businesses.
Here is a short list of businesses we have started or helped to start over the years. [152 and counting]. The businesses in italics are partnerships. The businesses in bold are currently operational. Each one has been visited by success and failure. One of these nights I’ll start filling in the stories. The really good news is that over 50 of the businesses we have helped to launch are thriving enterprises.
All told, we estimate there have been over 8,000 participants in the building of these opportunities. If you have a backstory for any of them, why not share it with us? I’ll take the good with the bad [they all have their share]. It is never meant to be easy, but it is always meant to be enjoyable.
A man who says he never had a chance is the man who never took one. Be big, be a builder.
Advantage Co Businesses
- Advantage Brands Group
- Advantage Catalog
- Advantage Computer Co.
- Advantage Global Resources
- Advantage Home Theater
- Advantage Outlet
- Advantage Properties
- Advantage TI
- Advantage Trade Group
- Aussie T Co
- Bogavia
- Brinkley Builders
- Chuggs
- Computer Head Start
- Giancarlo’s Sicilian Steakhouse
- Giancarlo’s Cafe & Patisserie
- Gift Giving Registry
- Grivani
- Grivani Wine Cellar
- Grivani Wine [Distributing]
- House of Cotton
- Forrestel Clothing Co
- iFul
- iSport
- iWorldFundraising.org
- iWorld Shopping Center
- King Finley
- Lab to Beauty
- Leave It To Alison**
- Lifetime Service
- Love Pink & Green
- Luxuri Link
- Merwin & Payne
- Modern Luxuri
- MyWarehouse.org
- Nantucket Clothing
- Naples Properties
- Osaka Speakers
- PALM Investments
- Piece Apparel
- Pioneer Home Theater
- Pure + Fresh
- Scotch Boots of Holland
- Smart Car Store
- Smart House Cafe**
- Smart Squad Design
- Smart Squad Install
- SmartLinks
- Sneaker Advantage
- SONY Home Theater
- Stereo Advantage
- Stereo Advantage [Olean]
- JVC Home Theater
- Taplin Marketing
- Tiny Walker
- Touche’
- TW Outlet [Niagara Falls]**
- TW&Co
- Walker Center
- Walker Kids Trust
- Walker Global Parts
- Walker Global Solutions
- Wehrle Properties
- White Box Services
Advantage Co Partnerships
- ABX Professionals
- Advantage Business Exchange
- Advantage Investment, Development & Oversight
- Advantage Marketing & Incentives
- Advantage Systems Professionals [now iWorld Professionals]
- Advantage Woodshop
- American Wireless
- AP Charlotte
- AP Cincinnati
- AP Cleveland
- AP Denver
- APHQ [now Advantage Global Resources]
- AP Metro**
- AP Phoenix
- AP Rochester
- AP Solutions [now Capax Global]
- AP Syracuse
- AP Tampa
- AP Washington DC
- AP WNY
- At Your Service
- Aussie Outfitters
- Autonomic Resources**
- Beacon Global Resources
- Bellus Development
- BizHop [support only]
- Black Progress Matters
- Butler Chemical
- Cascade Point**
- c1 Advantage
- c1 Secure
- Carolina Clothing Co
- Capax Alpha [now Capax Global]
- Capax Discovery
- Capax Global
- Capax India
- Capax Resource Management*
- CARES Act ADVISORY
- Chiampou Travis & Kershner*
- Christeus
- Cleary & Sullivan
- Cleary Travel
- Consilium1 [now c1 Advantage]
- Cross Pointe**
- Darmax Development
- Data Detect
- Delta Road Properties
- Duke Fund**
- Free Trade Consultants
- Gauntlet Design
- Greenview Landscaping*
- GRW For Hair
- Hudson Walker
- Images & Graphics
- Inspired Global Resources*
- Irwin Lazarus
- iWorld Professionals
- JALMAR Graphics
- JNorman & Co
- KATINI Skin
- King Finley
- LeCleanse Officiel
- LD World Resources
- Manzella Productions [support only]
- My Personal Advisor
- Outback Paging [AdTel Worldwide]
- Panther Data Solutions
- Phroket
- Pizza Shoppe
- PremCloud Services
- Real Properties Services
- Sceven
- SmartLink [Bailey & Kensington]
- SmartLink [Main Place Mall]
- Sozae
- Stereo Advantage [Phoenix]
- Stereo Shops [3 Rochester stores]**
- Strategic Finance
- Taplin Design
- Tony Walker Golf Club [4 locations nationally]
- Total Health & Fitness
- Trend Depot
- TW Charter Stores [92 Aussie Outfitter stores nationally]
- Unified Global Archiving
- Wellingtin Resources
- White & Co
- Wynnovation Labs
- Zovy Cloud
Coming Sooner or Later or Never
- Advacovery
- Ana Blu Mediterranean Kitchen
- 2 Girls 1 Deal
- Advantage Legal & Fiduciary
- ApothoClean
- Balance Bra
- Bedtime Monster Spray
- Christian Coop
- Clean Your Closets For Kids
- College Rep Program
- The Fantasy League
- Fashion Resource Group
- FedDrop
- FedSecure Data Centers
- FedCloud Vault
- Giancarlo’s Boutique Hotel
- GoToCloud Express
- Greenskeeper Coop
- Grivani Golf
- iTech Protect
- iWorld Auto
- iWorld Banking
- iWolrd Accounting
- Life Source Insurance
- OffShore Secure
- TW&Co Charter Fashion Labs
- Walker Global Mergers Acquisitions & Review
- Walker Sports Audit
* No longer involved in this partnership.
**Ended successfully.
There are three worlds: the one we are given, the one we are stuck with, and the one we bend to our will.
Theodore Roosevelt’s famous Man in the Arena speech. ‘It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause and who, if he fails, at least fails while bearing greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.’
