Global Moot Corp Announces Winner and Repositioning

May 9, 2010

Global Moot Corp Competition Announces Winner andRepositioning of The Super Bowl of Business Plan Competitions Austin Texas, May 9, 2010. Global Moot Corp tonight announced the Global Champion of its competition is BiologicsMD, a team from the University of Arkansas, developing a new prescription medicine for the treatment of osteoporosis. Paul Mlakar, President of BiologicsMD [...]

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Another Texas Moot Corp Winner Acquired: MacuClear

May 4, 2010

Healthcare of Today Acquires Pharmaceutical Company Treating Dry Age-Related Macular Degeneration BURBANK, CA — May 4, 2010 — Healthcare of Today, Inc. today announces that it has completed the acquisition of MacuCLEAR, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing novel solutions for vascular disorders of the eye. MacuCLEAR’s (www.macuclear.com) groundbreaking work leverages [...]

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Venture Week and Moot Corp Schedules May 5-8

April 30, 2010

University of Texas at Austin to Host Venture Week, Termed the Future “SXSW of New Venture Creation” AUSTIN, Texas — Global Moot Corp, taking place May 6–8 at The University of Texas at Austin, has been called “The Super Bowl of world business plan competition.” Starting this year, it will be accompanied by the inaugural [...]

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Launch Event Slides for If You Build It Will They Come

April 28, 2010

If you build it will they come launch presentation View more presentations from Rob Adams.

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Inc. Magazine Blog Post and Book Contest

April 28, 2010

I’ve posted the opening section of my new book “If You Build It Will They Come? Three Steps to Test and Validate Any Market Opportunity” up on my Inc. blog. This includes a contest to win an autographed copy of the book through them. The details are from Inc. are; To win a free autographed [...]

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The Power of Powerpoint?

April 27, 2010

Is Powerpoint ultimately a blessing or a curse? For the presenter, it’s really an outline to make sure nothing gets left out. For the audience, it can be the ultimate form of mind-numbing efforts to keep your eyes open. If they ever give an award for the most mind-boggling Powerpoint slide, this is surely it! [...]

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Today’s Campus Interview on Student Start-ups

April 20, 2010

This is an interview from Today’s Campus covering the nature of start-ups coming off university campuses today. The current state of the economy, the lack of competitors the nature of types of businesses students start explain some of the proliferation of student lead companies.

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If You Build It… Book Review

April 20, 2010

A great review of If You Build It Will They Come? Three Steps to Test and Validate any Market Opportunity by Dave Wenger.

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Austin Launch for If You Build It!

April 13, 2010

If You Build It Will They Come? Three Steps to Test and Validate Any Market Opportunity shipped on April 12 and is available at major book sellers everywhere, including Amazon, Books-A-Million, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Wiley, and 800CEORead. The formal Austin Launch will be Wednesday, April 28th, 5:30-8:00 PM at the AT&T Executive Education and [...]

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5th Annual Alumni Conference Material

April 3, 2010

The  recent McCombs Alumni Conference had a series of excellent great presentations from the Business School. A link to the slides and videos of those presentations is here. It was great to catch up with all of you that attended live.

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