Campus Entrepreneurship

Just a few business plan competition updates that have come in to the mailbox the last few days…
People love reading about QCUE, which just buzzed through the Rice Competition/FSB Competition. BTW, it offered $675K in cash and prizes. From the story on QCUE at CNN Money; “Kahn’s startup, called qcue, hopes to slash that [...]

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Just noticed that the Big Idea with Donny Deutsch is having an elevator pitch show tonite (28 Feb). No doubt it will play again multiple times (probably over the weekend). Here is the elevator pitch section of the show’s site.
Calling all entrepreneurs! If you’re looking for an angel investor, our new segment “Elevator Pitch” could [...]

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Moot Corp was the first business plan competition. It was started by two University of Texas MBA students that wanted something comparable to the Moot Court that was/is offered to law school students. That was 1984. Today Moot Corp is the most prestigious of the ‘open’ business plan contests where people from a variety of [...]

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Elizabeth Willet, an MBA student at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, is here pitching her new venture, an ISP and tech support business targeting ‘old fogeys.’
It sounds like older folks would pay a monthly fee for her firm to install and maintain computers, internet, printers, etc as well as offering training to the [...]

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