Who We Are:

The Southwest Texas State University Small Business Development Center (SBDC) works with existing and startup small companies to help them grow and compete in today’s global economy. SBDCs are available for small companies in every phase of the business life cycle, helping entrepreneurs make sound decisions and succeed. The resulting improvement in their business performance leads to job creation, investments, and economic growth for communities all across South Texas.

The SBDC’s professional staff of counselors, trainers, and researchers provides comprehensive, confidential business counseling services that are at no cost to the client. The SBDC is funded in part by the U. S. Small Business Administration, Southwest Texas State University at San Marcos, and an extensive network of banks, chambers of commerce, and other economic development organizations. The Southwest Texas State University SBDC serves twelve counties within the South-West Texas Border SBDC which is located in San Antonio, which serves a 79-county service region, providing an accessible network of business development services, which are listed below:



Counseling Services

We provide confidential business counseling services that are free of charge to our clients. Below are some of the areas of assistance.

Accounting and Bookkeeping

Government Contracting

Public Relations

Annual Business Checkup

Home-based Business

Retailing

Business Planning

Human Resources

Regulatory Assistance

Capital Acquisition

International Trade

SBA Loan Guarantee Assistance

Cash Flow

Manufacturing

SBA 8(a) & Other Programs

Computing Applications

Marketing and Advertising

Strategic Planning

Customer Service

Market Research

Taxes

Financial Analysis

Minority Business Development

Technology Commercialization

Financing and Loan Packaging

OSHA / Workplace Safety

Women's Business Issues

Franchising

Product Development / Engineering

Workforce Development

 

Research Services

SBDC counselors can also provide their clients with targeted research assistance through the SBDC National Information Clearinghouse. This program provides research data and analyses and web-based information that enable SBDC clients to make sound business decisions. The Clearinghouse website also has extensive on-line resources and links that are accessible to users: http://sbdcnet.utsa.edu/

 

Professional Business Consulting

Our business consultants apply their skills and experience to give you information for making better decisions about your small business. Consulting services are confidential and available to anyone whose business is more than a year old. If you have been in Business less than a year call our office for guidance.


For more information contact us at:

  • 512-45X-XXXX
  • swtsbdc@swt.edu

Hours of Operation:

  • Monday-Friday: 8:30AM-5:30PM

Maps and Directions:

Address

  • 314 Highland Mall Blvd. (Suite 110)
  • Austin, TX 78752-3735

Map

  • Click here for a map

 

The Austin Small Business Development Center is partially funded under cooperative agreement no. 2-603001-R-0049-17-by the U.S. Small Business Administration.

The support given by the SBA through such funding does not constitute an expressed or implied endorsement of any of the co-sponsorsÕ or participantsÕ opinions, findings, conclusions, recommendation, products, or services. All SBDC programs are nondiscriminatory and open to the public.