Vision2Venture: Innovation & Entrepreneurship Program

Event description

This event is hosted by the University of Houston Texas Gulf Coast SBDC Network

This immersive program equips you to critically assess, design, and launch innovation-driven ventures. Whether you’re spinning out a deep-tech startup from a university lab, developing a new software platform, creating a breakthrough restaurant concept, patenting an invention, or placing a product on store shelves, this four-part series is for you. You’ll learn to craft a compelling value proposition, chart early-stage funding paths, safeguard intellectual property, and build a focused go-to-market strategy for sustainable growth.

This series will be held on Fridays, April 10, 17, 24, and May 1, 2026.

Please be prepared to have your camera on and audio working.

Highlights:

• Craft and validate your innovative business concept
• IP Day: interactive session with an intellectual-property attorney covering patents, trademarks, and licensing
• Primer on navigating SBIR/STTR and additional early-stage funding resources
• Customer discovery, go-to-market planning, and securing initial traction

This series is intended for deep-tech entrepreneurs commercializing inventions, aspiring founders, small-business owners, and innovation leaders who aim to transform bold ideas—hardware, software, products or services—into viable, scalable ventures.

PLEASE NOTE: Registration will close two business days prior to the start of the cohort.