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Small Business Opportunities & News

Upcoming Small Business Opportunities From Around HCC 


  • Experienced Small Business Advisors - Sought to Advise Teams Selected in the 2023 HCC Business Plan Competition:
  • For Experienced Advisors interested to know more about the opportunity - Join us for a live Zoom Orientation tomorrow.
  • Advisor Orientation - Virtual Event - Tues, Feb 7, 6:30 - 8:00pm
  • Open for Business Presents - Business Model Canvas Pt. II
  • Academia Digital - In Spanish
  • MBDA Business Academy - Entrepreneurial Readiness
  • MBDA - Virtual Subs and Sandwiches with HCC Procurement Small Business Development
  • MBDA Pandemic Recovery Center - Intro to Bookkeeping
  • Small Business Success Series by HCC - Virtual Series
  • SCORE @ HCC Workshops
  • 4th Annual Houston Business Matchmaker - Hosted by SBDC, SBA and Houston Business Journal.
  • Access to HCC Procurement Expo
  • Small Business Success Series by HCC - Onsite Series
  • Verizon Innovative Learning is hiring! Summer STEM Camps held HCC Campuses.

Small Business Opportunities from HCC

Experienced Small Business Advisors

Sought to Advise Teams Selected to Compete in the

2023 HCC Business Plan Competition

Experienced Small Business Advisors

are Invited to Join Us for a Zoom

Advisor Orientation & Info Session

Click here to get your link to join us on ZOOM at 6:30 pm, February 7


It's not required to attend this event, but it's a great way for interested advisors to connect with our competition leaders and other advisors, and to learn more about how our competition will flow this year.


Please Note: This Advisor Info Session is NOT FOR APPLICANTS APPLYING TO COMPETE in the 2023 HCC Business Plan Competition.

For more information, please visit: https://hcc.idloom.events/OFB-BMC2

Para mas información, visite: https://hcc.idloom.events/capital-oneADEspanol

For more information, please visit: https://tinyurl.com/EntrepreneurialReadiness

For more information, please visit: https://tinyurl.com/2023HCCProcurement

For more information, please visit: https://hcc.idloom.events/PRC-Bookkeeping

For more information, please visit: https://hcc.idloom.events/SBSS23

For more information, please visit: https://bit.ly/HCCScoreOBO

For more information, please visit: https://www.sbdc.uh.edu

For more information, please visit: https://hcc.idloom.events/access2023

For more information, please visit: https://hcc.idloom.events/SBSS-Alief2023

To apply for the Coding/Micro-Bits Instructor position,

please send your CV to Susie Molina at susie.molina@hccs.edu

About the Glenda & David Regenbaum Center for Entrepreneurship

HCC Northwest


OUR MISSION: To help entrepreneurs start and grow their businesses.

We do this by offering workshops, seminars, summits, classes and competitive training and advising, while also providing practical knowledge, resources and connections. We are also known for three Signature Programs: the Annual HCC Business Plan Competition, now in its 15th year; the Small Business Success Series by by HCC©; and the HCC Mattress Mack School of Selling©



Contact us at c4e@hccs.edu or 713-718-6650

Houston Community College Wins 2022 Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers Award for Excellence in Specialty Entrepreneurship Education


Houston-based academic group called out top universities and programs from around the world — including one in Houston and another in Texas — that are excelling in educating future entrepreneurs at the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers Conference in October.

The GCEC is a consortium of more than 250 university entrepreneurship programs that is headquartered at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business, which has been named a top entrepreneurship program itself time and time again. Houston Community College's Office of Entrepreneurial Initiatives (led by Dr. Maya Durnovo) won in the Excellence in Specialty Entrepreneurship Education category for programming that serves women and minority owned businesses. GCEC Award-Innovation Map Article

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Houston Community College Wins 2022 Bellwether Award for Entrepreneurial Initiatives


Houston Community College has won the 2022 Bellwether Award for its outstanding and innovative workforce development program: HCC’s Entrepreneurial Initiatives. The Bellwether Awards are widely regarded as one of the nation’s most competitive and prestigious recognitions for community colleges. Dr. Maya Durnovo, HCC’s chief entrepreneurial initiatives officer leads HCC’s mission of helping entrepreneurs start and grow businesses to bolster the local economy, create jobs and build Houston’s ecosystem by starting and growing small businesses, including minority-, veteran- and women-owned businesses. Dr. Durnovo said. “I am so fortunate to have a highly motivated and passionate team that strives for excellence in everything they do.”

Houston Community College Receives 2021 Diversity In Business Award from the Houston Business Journal!


Congratulations to all students, faculty, staff, entrepreneurs (aspiring & existing); and to all our community participants, supporters, volunteers, partners and sponsors who collaborate with us to make awards like this possible! Congratulations also to all of the other honorees and awardees! 


#WeAreHCC # HoustonStrong #HBJDiversity


NACCE Award 2

Houston Community College 

2020 Entrepreneurial College of the Year


The Houston Community College System was selected as the winner of the 2020 Entrepreneurial College of the Year award by the National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship (NACCE) at NACCE's annual conference, where entrepreneurial colleges from across the U.S. gather to share best practices. On behalf of all of our entrepreneurial programs and staff, we thank all of the entrepreneurs, partners, sponsors, volunteers, students, and HCC faculty and staff who have contributed to our efforts! Without your support and dedication to our programs, this wouldn't have been possible!