LOCAL & NATIONAL TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE RESOURCES
We are committed to offering tools and knowledge necessary to help our entrepreneurs take their small businesses to the next level. Scroll down to view a variety of free, face-to-face, and online resources that will allow entrepreneurs to learn what they need at a pace that suits their busy schedules.
LOCAL RESOURCES
Earn. Learn. Belong!
The Baker Ripley Entrepreneur Connection Program helps Greater Houston Area entrepreneurs through extensive business education programs, advising and resources.
Small Business Education and Opportunities
HCC’s Center for Entrepreneurship – Northwest helps entrepreneurs start and grow their small businesses by offering workshops, seminars, summits, classes and competitive training and advising, while also providing practical knowledge, resources and connections.
Get your Business Ready!
Stimulating Urban Renewal Through Entrepreneurship, or SURE℠, is an innovative educational platform that connects UH students, under-resourced entrepreneurs, and the Houston business community.
Access Free Mentors and Training
SCORE HOUSTON offers FREE business training, mentors & educational resources to help you start and grow your small business. SCORE’s mentor program and in-person and online workshops are tailored to assist entrepreneurs at every stage of their business journey.
RESOURCES
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Entrepreneur Connection Program helps entrepreneurs gain access to the resources needed to achieve business goals, click here for more information.
Goldman Sachs 10,000 is an investment in the growth of small businesses, click here for more information.
Grow with Google and access offers various on-demand courses or topics to ensure an online business presence and visibility; ads; find customers; claim your business identity, click here for more information.
Small Business Opportunities. News, classes, resources, workshops, training, and specialized entrepreneurial programs, click here to access the resources.
The Houston Public libraries in partnership with Data Axle offers US Business data base for reference and research, click here for more information.
LISC offers ways for business owners to gain access to additional avenues of capital with this Modules Playlist on YouTube, click here for more information.
NextStreet offers consultancy to access to experts, networks and capital, click here for more information.
Ready offers checklists and toolkits for disaster preparedness such as for environmental disasters (hurricanes, power outages, tornados, flooding, etc), click here for more information.
Various on-demand courses or topics for businesses at all stages, click here for The Startup Roadmap.
The SBA offers various on-demand courses or topics for businesses at all stages; federal contracting; workshops; COVID and emergency resources; disaster resiliency plans for businesses, click here for more information.
America’s SBDC Gulf Coast Network helps small businesses start, grow and succeed. Get access to professional business advising, training, industry-specific guidance, and resources, click here for more information.
Start Smart Think Big offers Legal, marketing, financial coaching, click here for more information.
The University of Houston Stimulating Urban Renewal Through Entrepreneurship, or SURE℠, is a unique multi-sided program at the University of Houston’s C. T. Bauer College of Business, click here for more information.
Venturize offers Loan preparation assistance and lending referrals, click here for more information.
Verizon Small Business Digital Ready offers various on-demand courses, click here for more information.
AFRICAN AMERICAN ENTREPRENEURS
A comprehensive center that offers classes, mentoring, wholistic wrap around services for African American entrepreneurs in Houston, click here for more information.
CO-WORK SPACES
Casey’s Share office offers robot collaborative office spaces, and private and flexible office suites, click here for more information.
Common Desk specializes in creating workspace communities where everyone finds a profound sense of belonging, click here for more information.
The Ranch is a Texas-inspired space for coworking in Houston. It is designed to inspire and specifically built to grow your small business, click here for more information.
Regus offers bright, Inspiring workspaces that can be customized to individual needs, click here for more information.
Sesh mission is to provide women, communities of color, the LGBTQ+ community and creative, mission-driven brands with space to work, click here for more information.
The Cannon supports startups, empowering small businesses, and creating entrepreneurial communities, click here for more information.
Urban Office offers stunning, functional workspaces for professionals in all types of industries, from finance to IT, click here for more information.
CREDIT REPAIR
Covenant Community Capital is a non-profit that helps lower-income people achieve the dream of howeownership, click here for more information.
The Credit Coalition’s purpose is to empower consumers through financial and homebuyer counseling, click here for more information.
Longtime, accredited financial counseling nonprofit organization (credit, budgeting, debt, housing, student loans). An affordable fee is charged for some services, click here for more information.
Operation Hope helps individuals of all ages by offering financial education, one-on-one couching, courses on credit score improvement, as well as pathways toward home ownership and starting a business, click here for more information.
ENVIRONMENTAL AND AGRICULTURAL
GROW mission is to create pathways for BIPOC communities to access education, workforce training, and economic opportunities, click here for more information.
Plant It Forward (PIF) mission is to empower refugees to develop sustainable farming businesses that produce fresh, healthy food for our community, click here for more information.
Urban Harvest goal is to transform the way communities engage with and access fresh, locally sourced food, click here for more information.
FUNDERS
Entre Capital is the first community loan fund exclusively servicing second-chance businesses, click here for more information.
TXRX labs offers courses for makers to learn skills to develop their business, click here for more information.
At JUST, they prioritize our clients above all else. They are are dedicated to supporting your entrepreneurial journey toward achieving financial success, click here for more information.
LiftFund offers Online Consultation, Online Learning and Funding, click here for more information.
PeopleFund offers loans for small businesses along with support and educational resources for individuals who typically have restricted access to these opportunities, click here for more information
The Tory Brunch Foundations helps you learn what capital options are right for your business, click here for more information.
INCUBATORS
E for All is a nonprofit organization that partners with communities nationwide to help under-represented individuals successfully start and grow a business through intensive business training, mentorship and an extend professional support network, click here for more information.
Emprediendo con Pasión es una platforma de educación, conexiones e información en español diseñada para ayudar a los impresarios latinos residentes en los Estados Unidos a entender el system de negocios, haz click aquí para más información.
Impact Hub connects entrepreneurs and innovators to large organizations, partners, investors, and the public sector, click here for more information.
Innova Community Business Academy is dedicated to empowering underserved entrepreneurs and small businesses in local communities, click here for more information.
The ION District main goal is to provide wide-reaching space and support to perfect, protect, and project your idea into the world so that it thrives, click here for more information.
Pearland Innovation Hub offers Pearland, Texas small business community resources for entrepreneurs, startups and small businesses, click here for more information.
Is a volunteer organization that serves underserved communities regardless of creed, ethnic or social background, health, gender, religious or political affiliations, click here for more information.
LGBTQ+ ENTREPRENEURS
A list of some of the best resources to help LGBTQ+ Entrepreneurs to thrive through networking, educational training, and funding opportunities, click here for more information.
MAKERS
TXRX labs offers courses for makers to learn skills to develop their business, click here for more information.
WHI works to build innovation capacity among our students, faculty and staff, and communities, click here for more information.
VETERAN ENTREPRENEURS
Reynolds and Reynolds Entrepreneur Bootcamp for Veterans at Texas A&M University is a program for post 9/11 veterans with a service-connected disabilities and a passion for entrepreneurship, click here for more information.
SBA – Office of Veterans Business Development, offers Education, Funding and Information specifically for Veteran Entrepreneurs, click here for more information.
WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS
America’s SBDCs, over 1000 in centers US and Territories, offers free services based upon residency, to help state residents, help with process to start a business, a business plan, click here for more information.
IFundWomen and Honeycomb Credit offer online access to classes, crowdfunding, coaching and grants, click here for more information.