Start Up Meet Up (SUMU) is less than a month away and we now have the online ticket purchase available.
Click on the link below to get your ticket to the McCombs’ 2nd annual Start Up Meet Up Entrepreneurs’ Conference!
Entrepreneur Society hosts 2nd Annual Start Up Meet Up!
@ Texas Union – September 24th
We are proud to announce that the 2nd Annual Start Up Meet Up will be held on Friday, September 24th at the Texas Union on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin! Last year was a great success with over 200 participants and we are planning to build on that.
Please stay tuned for ticket, speaker, and logistical details. If you are interested in sponsoring this wonderful event, please contact Luke Jones at luke.jones@mba11.mccombs.utexas.edu
Thanks and looking forward to seeing you there!
Entrepreneur Society and MBA+ hosts the 9th Annual Pitch Party!
Save the date and location! UT Alumni Center between 6-9pm.
The 9th Annual MBA+ Pitch Party challenges MBA students to “pitch” their best start up idea to mock “investors” who are prominent members of the greater Austin entrepreneurship community and McCombs faculty. Investors are given venture funding (in true monopoly fashion) to back the best ideas that they hear over the course of the evening cocktail event.
(The idea can be real or fictional. You just have to sell it to the mock investors!)
DETAILS:
What: Pitchers win prizes by collecting the most “McCombs Money”.
Drinks and appetizers will be served.
Who: Pitchers – 1st year McCombs MBAs with entrepreneurial ideas
Investors – Alumni, VCs, angels, business leaders, faculty, and 2nd year MBA students
Object: Gain the most investor support in the form of “McCombs Money”
Pitch: A 60-second “elevator pitch” outlining your idea. Be creative! Have fun!
Where: UT Alumni Center, 2110 San Jacinto Blvd. (right across from the football stadium)
When: Thursday, September 23rd, 6-9 p.m.
SPONSORING OPPORTUNITIES: If you are interested in sponsoring this wonderful event, please contact Luke Jones at luke.jones@mba11.mccombs.utexas.edu
Thanks and looking forward to seeing you there!
Entrepreneur Society welcomes Class of 2012! Hope your orientation is as fun as it was for us. 
Don’t forget to stop by our table at the org fair on the 24th!
ES Connections 2010 was a huge success! Check out the photo gallery for some of the snapshots!
ES CONNECTIONS 2010 PHOTO GALLERY
April 1st (6 to 8pm) at the UT Alumni Center
The best ES connections ever is about to begin!
MBA students: Don’t forget to bring your resumes and the dress code is business casual. Also, please wear your name tags.
This event is closed to McCombs MBA students only!
Below is the list of companies participating in the ES Connections 2010! We thank all the companies for participating and we send special thanks to Baby Earth for sponsoring this event.
PARTICIPATING COMPANIES:
| Baby Earth (ES CONNECTIONS SPONSOR) |
| Austin Technology Incubator |
| BrainMatch/Indigo Heron Group |
| BrainMatch |
| Boundless Network |
| campus2careers |
| Carebuzz |
| Challenge Games |
| Critical Mass Interactive, Inc. |
| Deverus |
| Eclipse Solar Gear |
| Enspire |
| INCENTER |
| Independence Brewing Company |
| Innovate Wireless Health |
| Notice Technologies |
| OneSpot |
| SolarWinds |
| Tech Ranch |
| UpSpring, Ltd. |
| Venti Energy |
| Vertive, Inc. |
| Whale Shark Media |
| Wilco Angel Network |
From 6 to 8pm at the UT Alumni Center
ES Connections will give you a great opportunity to network with various Austin based early stage, growing, and established companies that are looking to fill internship and full time positions related to entrepreneurial ventures.
The event will be an informal career fair that will allow MBA students to freely interact with the entrepreneurs and company representatives in a cocktail environment allowing you and the firm to learn more about each other and determine if you and the company are a good fit!
Students should wear dressy business casual and are asked only to bring business cards and resumes. There is no cost for students to attend. Stay tuned for a list of companies to attend!
This event is closed to McCombs MBA students only!
The officers’ push to connect all lifetime members of the Entrepreneur Society is off and running. We recently set up a group on LinkedIn, and all Class of 2010 & 2011 members have been invited via their McCombs email addresses. If your McCombs address is not linked to LinkedIn, then you’ll have to join the old fashioned way—submit a request to join directly in LinkedIn. Just search for the group called “Entrepreneur Society.”
In the day and a half since we invited ES alumni from around the world, over 200 additional lifetime members have joined!!! Don’t take these new connections for granted; be active within the group!
When: Wednesday, Feb 17th 2010
Time: Panel of Previous Winners: 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Finals Presentations: 6:30 – 9:00 p.m.
Where: Legacy Events Room
We have quite a few McCombs students (and ES members) that have moved onto the finals of Moot Corp. Congratulations to MBAbenchmark, Ordoro, Solavicta, and Mentionables! Come here about their great business plans and offer your support at the next round. Additionally, a panel of previous winners of Moot Corp will be answering questions and speaking about their experience after winning this prized competition. Find more information on the later rounds of Moot Corp and a panel of previous Moot Corp winner at the Moot Corp website: www.mootcorp.org/TXMC.asp
I am very excited to announce that the new ES Board has taken over for the 2nd years. A huge thank you to Naruby and the rest of the board for their excellent work and setting the bar so high. The new ES Board is very excited for the upcoming year and we welcome all suggestions and feedback. Feel free to reach out at luke.jones@mba11.mccombs.utexas.edu
Luke Jones
