Entrepreneurship
Through Trinity’s entrepreneurship minor, real-world problem solvers of all academic interests embark on their first ventures. Through the minor, open to all majors, students build real ventures, meet real-world challenges, learn from failure, get out of the classroom, and start something real.
Entrepreneurship: Facts
It’s a good fit for you if you:
- Enjoy turning ideas into real products, services, or ventures.
- Want to develop leadership, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Are interested in starting your own business or side hustle.
- Like identifying opportunities and finding creative solutions to challenges.
- Want to gain practical skills that are valuable in any career or industry.
What You’ll Study
As an Entrepreneurship minor at Trinity University, you’ll turn ideas into ventures through coursework in opportunity recognition, business planning, marketing, finance, innovation, and leadership. Students launch for-profit and nonprofit startups, retain 100% IP, and compete in pitch competitions at state, national, and global levels. Ventures may also join programs like Techstars. With 1-on-1 coaching via Trinity Startup Tree and alumni mentoring through the Venture Mentoring Service, you’re supported from idea to launch.
Featured Courses
Discover expert-led entrepreneurship courses designed to help you launch, grow, and lead successful businesses with confidence.
Introduction to Entrepreneurship
Focus on the processes of brainstorming, recognizing and evaluating entrepreneurial opportunities and developing a preliminary business model around that opportunity.
Innovation, Design, and Entrepreneurship
Dive deep in customer discovery using design thinking to develop desirable, feasible, and viable business models for startup
Arts Entrepreneurship Mindset
Artists create! Now, learn to see yourself as an entrepreneur, and how you can create value for your clients.
Entrepreneurial Sales
Trinity boasts one of the few programs nationwide with a built-in sales course embedded in the curriculum. Learn to attract and retain clients, and how to pitch your product to a wide range of markets.
Independent Study
Being an entrepreneur is -literally - its own learning experience. At Trinity, you can get credit for working on your own business.
Social Innovation
Entrepreneurship is about more than products and pricing. Learn how a new generation of social entrepreneurs are solving a global challenges in sustainable ways.
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Meet Your Faculty Mentors
Our professors practice what they preach
Our faculty are at the epicenter of a booming startup and tech scene in San Antonio, with connections stretching throughout Texas, the U.S., and beyond. Students receive personal feedback and development, as well as gain access to a real-world network of industry insiders, movers, and shakers.
Real-world practitioners
Trinity’s unique clinical adjunct faculty model brings real-world practitioners, full-time and exemplary in their areas. Active in the San Antonio entrepreneurial ecosystem, they share their networks and current knowledge with students. The Entrepreneurship Co-working space is where students have 24/7 access to work with their teams in developing new ventures as well as meet with mentors and network.
Learn Beyond the Classroom
Students+Startups
Gain hands-on startup experience through a paid summer internship, connect with local entrepreneurs, expand your network, and build valuable skills with San Antonio's top emerging companies.
Stumberg Venture Competition
Turn your idea into a venture. Compete in Trinity's annual pitch competition for startup funding, mentorship, and a chance to win up to $25,000.
Trinity Accelerator Program
Turn your startup idea into reality. Stumberg finalists receive paid support and mentorship through a 10-week accelerator designed to drive growth and measurable results.
Center for the Sciences and Innovation
Bring your ideas to life with access to dedicated workspaces, cutting-edge technology, and the CSI Makerspace. CSI provides the resources to transform concepts into successful ventures.
Outcomes
Join a startup, or work for yourself
From creating international tax platforms and pushing data-driven dairy farming to high-tech expunction software, Trinity entrepreneurs graduate into jobs they’ve created for themselves, or bring an experienced skillset to startup or postgraduate opportunity of their choice.
Notable Companies who have Hired Trinity Graduates:
- Scaleworks
- Stanford University
- Venture for America
Career Areas
Be a high impact founder or employee that knows how to take risks, seize opportunities, and create value.
Career Areas:
- Business Development/Marketing
- Program Manager
- Serial Entrepreneur
Graduate Schools or Programs:
- Masters in Public Health USC
- Social Entrepreneurship, University of San Diego