Dear Professor Adams:I am a law student at UT and wanting to enter LES’s GRADUATE STUDENT BUSINESS PLAN COMPETITION where participants submit a comprehensive business plan with a core IP licensing component and the winning team receives $10,000. I have the technology selected and need an MBA student to help me with some of the components. Professor Nichols referred me to you.

The details of the program are here: http://www.lesfoundation.org/pdf/2008CompetitionGuidelines.pdf

Specifically, the MBA student would assist in developing:

i. Market Analysis and Marketing Strategy
ii. Operations
iii. Management
iv. Summary Financials, including details of any licensing agreements

Ideally the student would have tech and licensing experience.

sam bergstrom

Ideally, the project will result in an initial pitch deck (i.e., the usual 10-12 slides used for investor meetings). Depending on the business ventures identified, the students, along with the appropriate members of the WNCG, could begin to commercially launch and pursue an opportunity this summer at ATI or use it as the basis for the New Venture Creation class.

The Plus project team’s main contact at ATI is a Texas MBA alum and former ATI intern, Bart Bohn. For more information, please contact Deidra Stephens, Plus Program Director, deidra.stephens at mccombs dot utexas dot edu.