Advisor Role
Your Experience can Empower our Entrepreneurs
Houston City College and our Center for Entrepreneurship are preparing for the 18th annual HCC Business Plan Competition. We invite you to be a part of our 2025 HCC Business Plan Competition Advisor Cohort. Join other experienced entrepreneurial, business and technology experts who give one-on-one advising to a team selected to move through our competition.
Competition training and advising is virtual with optional opportunities to meet your team in person.
Advisors are a powerful and sustaining thread in the program. As an Advisor you will have an opportunity to help entrepreneurs of all ages who are entering the HCC Business Plan Competition to take expert advice and use it to become more successful.
- Approximately 30 entrepreneur teams will be chosen to compete in the 2025 Competition. We accept proposed, startup and existing companies who are entering to create refined and polished plans to start and/or grow their businesses. Each team (of 1 to 5 contestants) will move through the competition training and advising from late February through May. All contestant teams will be matched with Advisors. If you become an Advisor, you will be matched to a team based on your areas of expertise and the team's business concept and needs. Advisors are critical to the success of the Competition.
The Role of the Advisor is to:
- Encourage contestants to meet deadlines and complete competition;
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- Review contestants' work regularly;
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- Advise and guide contestants pointing out deficiencies and making suggestions;
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Lead by example: meet commitments, keep contestant(s) positive, encourage timeliness and complete work, follow-up on status of suggestions made at previous meeting;
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- Serve as a Business Plan Reviewer.
Advisors New to This Competition
If you have not yet served as an advisor in this Competition, please select our new advisor quick form to submit your interest and introduce yourself.
Returning Advisors
For those of you who have previously served as an Advisor for this Competition, please select the link below and complete the mini-form to say 'yes' and we would be honored to have you with us again.