U Houston Cougar Fund launches $1M student venture fund
The University of Houston has waded into the venture capital market. Administrators have launched the new Cougar Venture Fund this fall as part of its entrepreneurship curriculum for graduate business students. “The goal is to teach students in an entrepreneurial finance class about raising money for a startup, what the options are, how to evaluate […]
U Houston GEAR Program Supports Researchers At $30K An Idea
Ask any professor: A good idea alone isn’t likely to receive serious research funding. Big awards almost always have some data that supports the project, that shows the researcher’s idea should work. In a classic catch-22, though, getting this data itself takes money. Materials for experiments, graduate student time, lab space, computing power – none […]