WELCOME TO Alamo Heights High School Business Incubator Program
Developing Visionaries Into Tomorrow's Leaders
Your Path to Entrepreneurship Begins Here...
WHO WE ARE
Empowering Dreams One
Start Up at a Time:
The Heights Business Incubator allows students acquire foundational business concepts, then team up to apply those concepts as they launch their very own business. Principles from the LEAN startup movement help students test their thinking. From concept to Minimum Viable Product to Pitch, students are collaborating, hypothesizing, testing, adapting and learning.
From Idea to MVP
Market Research
Students learn to search through industries and market sectors to find an overlooked gap in the market.
Business Plan Development
Students employ the Lean Canvas Business Model to vet their ideas and select the most viable business idea.
Prototyping & Pricing
Students work with financial experts and production experts to engineer their designs into real products with smart profit margins.
Financials & Funding
Students learn from the experts on a variety of topics from pricing, costing, and even how to secure investors including 2 annual pitch nights where students compete for investment funds.
Legal & HR
Students are walked through the process of hiring a team, securing vendors, filing for business licenses, and securing necessary third-party testing for their prototypes.
Go To Market
Students are taught the fundamentals of building a brand, creating a marketing and sales strategy and bringing a new product to market.
Community Volunteers
Students have the opportunity to work with volunteer business coaches and mentors and their classroom teacher. Coaches are volunteer business and content area experts. Students will learn from their real world experiences and unique business perspective. Each student team will be assigned a volunteer mentor. Mentors will guide and advise teams as the develop their business concepts. Classroom teachers are the educational professionals who will manage the class dynamics and provide continuity.
Coaches
As a Coach, you work with students in their class to help them learn the material you present through lectures and activities. You will choose the lesson that aligns with your business expertise (e.g., marketing, finance, sales). INCubatoredu provides you with complete lessons with presentations, student activities, and curated resources. If you wish, replace the professional examples used in the lesson with your experiences. However, we ask you to use the lesson’s content. Work closely with your teacher to ensure you have access to the materials needed for the days you are in class.
Mentors
As a mentor, you facilitate learning, which is different from directly teaching. Students will look to you for answers, but you must help them understand how to search for solutions. Mentors meet with student teams once a week for at least an hour. The energy and effort will increase before key milestones such as the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) Pitch near the academic year’s mid-point and at the year’s end.
Community Partners
Our Students compete for real money to start their entrepreneurial venture. They are able to draw from the fund, generously built by our community partners. Every team presents for the opportunity to draw $500 to build their MVP.
Then the teams who move to the stage compete for $10,000 top prize, $8,000 second prize, $5,000 third prize and $1,000 people's choice award, that they then use during their Accelerator Year to grow their business. Accelerator teams are so coached and provided with opportunities to pitch to Angel Funds and Private Equity.
Thank you, Sponsors, for your generous support of this program!
Visionary Sponsors
($100,000+)
The Dreeben Family Foundation
Founding Sponsors
($25,000+)
Mays Family Foundation
Partnering Sponsors
($10,000+)
Frost Bank
Charley Hollimon
The Henry and Mary Kessler Sauer Family
Laura and Lew Moorman
Luther King Capital Management
Supporting Sponsors
($5,000+)
Sue Hill Bonar
Kim Ford - theKFORDgroup
Mike Fulton
The Gunn Family
Julie Hill
Caroline and Robert Schupbach
Contributing Sponsors
($2,500+)
Brandary
Craig Clayton
Friends
($1,000+)
Elizabeth and Corbin Snow
Ed Howie
Jenny Schnoebelen
Kori and Joseph Williams
Donors
(Under $1,000)
Pat Frost
Charley Hollimon
South Texas Money Management
Invite Your Student to Start Making Impact Today!
Watch your student engage like never before as they learn to apply business principles to real world application.
FAQS
How do I apply to be in the Business Incubator Program at Alamo Heights?
Students sign up for classes in February of each year, for the next year. Please remember to ask your counselor to sign you up.
Do I have to have a student in the program to volunteer?
We welcome volunteer experts whether or not you have a child enrolled. Click here to sign up!
Do students receive high school credit for these classes?
Yes, these classes are part of the school curriculum and contribute regular credit hours towards graduation.
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