McCombs Entrepreneur Society

Entrepreneur Society Boat Cruise 2008

Class of 2010,

Welcome to UT and the McCombs School of Business! As you wind down from the orientation process and get ready to start your first semester, the Entrepreneur Society would like to invite you to the Entrepreneur Society Boat Cruise, August 22nd from 4pm to 7pm. Food and beverages will be provided. Entrepreneur Society officers will be selling tickets during orientation breaks, so be sure to look for us to reserve your spot. Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions.

Where: Hyatt Regency Boat Dock (google map)

When: 4pm - 7pm (please arrive 15-20 minutes early)

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Moot Corp Celebrates 25 Years!

The Global Moot Corp competition, the “Super Bowl of world business-plan competitions,” will celebrate its 25th year when it unfolds Friday and Saturday at McCombs. Everybody is welcome to come and watch the action as 38 teams from countries around the world vie for the top prize. Above, Barry Kahn of the Texas champion Qcue presents his team’s e-commerce solution for helping event promoters price their tickets based on fluctuating market factors.

Read the Austin American-Statesman story.

Click here for a schedule of the presentations.

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Austin Ventures Commits $50 Million to Create Social Enterprise Software and Services Company

[via austinist.com]

Local venture capital firm Austin Ventures is contributing up to $50 million to create a company that will build a social networking platform for corporations.

Jeffrey Dachis, who led Razorfish during its reign as one of the original digital services firms, will be the chairman and chief executive officer of the new company, which will be based in Austin.

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Rackspace IPO Hints at Expansion

[via GigaOm]

Data center and hosting provider RackSpace Inc., has filed to raise up to $400 million in an initial public offering. Its financials seem generally sound (unlike many tech companies it’s actually profitable), although profits did drop by 10 percent in the last year.

Rackspace is headquarted in San Antonio, TX.

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PartnerUp

Here’s a cool site. PartnerUp is an online community for entrepreneurs and startups that helps them find people for their business, such as co-founders, business partners, advisors, board members, and skilled technical people. In addition, PartnerUp helps entrepreneurs ask for and offer up advice, find commercial real estate, and find resources for their business. [via VentureBeat]

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Far From Silicon Valley

Interesting post by tech blogger Robert Scoble on lack of acknowledgment given to tech firms outside of the Valley.  Mentioned in the article were some local firms (San Antonio), some of which I had never heard of:

• PerfTech
• Kulabyte
• NewTech

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UT Entrepreneurship Happy Hour

When: Friday (5/18) at 4pm

Where: Spider House [map] [website]

There’s nothing better than a group of entrepreneurial-minded individuals after a round of frosty or caffeinated beverages. Come on over and talk about/throw around ideas relating to entrepreneurship/tech commercialization/tech-start-ups. Or just come, hang out and listen to all of the ideas.

Hope to see you there!

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Sports Entrepreneurship and I2P Workshop

Sports Entrepreneurship: Phil Rawlins on Tuesday, April 15, 2008, UTC 1.118, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

The market pain: Soccer is the largest sport in the world, with the most heavily attended games of any sport. Over 30 billion viewers watched the World Cup matches in Germany in2006. The sport is booming in North America with close to 14 million young athletes under the age of 18 playing soccer every week. The Austin area has over 35,000 young people and over 8,000 adults playing organized soccer, and is the largest city in the United States without a professional sports franchise.
The solution: Phil Rawlins is a successful technology entrepreneur who recently started The Austin Aztex Soccer Club and is an owner of Stoke City, a Football League Championship club in England. Founded in 1863, Stoke City is the second oldest club in soccer history. Phil Rawlins brings to the Austin Aztex many years of management experience in soccer operations and entrepreneurship. Come hear his story.

TES Event - I2P Workshop #5: Selling Your Idea

Learn the presentation skills you’ll need to make a top-notch I2P presentation! Not competing in I2P this semester? These skills will apply no matter what you are selling!

• Speaker: Dr. Gary Cadenhead, IC2 Director & former Moot Corp Director
• Free food!
• When: Tuesday, April 15th from 6:00 to 7:00pm
• Where: ACE 2.402
• Hosted by the Technology Entrepreneurship Society (TES) — www.texastes.org
• Supporting the Idea to Product (I2P) Competition - April 25 & 26

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Internship Opportunity at Conformity

Conformity is developing the industry’s first software-as-a-service (SaaS) management solution that will enable organizations to centrally manage and control user access to On-Demand applications. The Conformity solution is currently available in Beta release, with general availability targeted for June 2008. Conformity is currently seeking an MBA student intern(s) to assist with market research efforts to validate key market hypotheses, and to help gather primary market data to help refine and shape the Conformity product roadmap. We are specifically looking for someone to speak directly with prospects to:

· Identify current pain points around management of multiple SaaS applications
· Determine interest in Conformity solution and value proposition
· Prioritize potential features/capabilities
· Test and validate Conformity price point(s)

Prospect interviews/ conversations will target Sales Operations and Field Operations employees at mid-sized organizations (250-1,000 employees) that have deployed 2 or more SaaS applications. Please visit www.conformity-inc.com for more information about Conformity and our solution.

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2008 NCAA Championship Game Party

SEMA invites all McCombs students to the:

2008 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP GAME McCOMBS WATCHING PARTY

Monday, April 7th - Tipoff: 8:21 p.m.
Scholz Garden (17th & San Jacinto)

Join your classmates to watch the big game and to cheer on whoever helps your bracket! Food will be provided courtesy of SEMA.

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