Small Business Development Center

The Small Business Development Center at the University of Houston has a nice slate of seminars for small business owners and entrepreneurs lined up in February and March. Here are some that might be worthwhile for Startup Houston readers:

• Financing Panel
  Growing a business takes money but here are many different financing tools to fund that growth. Find out latest trends in financing from traditional bank financing to angel funding and an innovative financing tool called BORSA^TM (Business Owner’s Retirement Savings Account) Plan.

  Panelist include: Richard Scruggs, Houston Angel Network; Gary Henderson, Amegy Bank; Fred Whitlock, DRDA; Nancy Comenares, AmeriSource; Miguel Ruiz, SBA.

  Cost: $19 if registered and paid on line. Pre-registration required.

• Protecting Your Ideas: Understanding Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights
  Many people conceive ideas for products, but they do not know how to protect these ideas. Learn the basic strategies tor protecting ideas using Intellectual Property tools.

  Cost: $39 if registered and paid online.

• Get Your Product to Market
  From idea to market research to commercialization, find out how to prepare and take your product to market. Ina 2-part workshop, learn how to protect your idea, research a product’s market potential, evaluate your product’s economics, and choose licensing or venturing as a commercialization strategy.

  Cost: $49 if registered and paid online.

• License Your Product
  Once licensing is chose as the strategy to commercialize an innovation, find out the steps to successfully transfer the innovation to licensing. Learn how to value an innovation and determine your share of value, ways to locate licenses, and how to negotiate licenses.

  Cost: $39 if registered and paid online.

The SBDC’s full calendar is here.