McCombs Entrepreneur Society

Product Realization and Technology Commercialization Seminar

crabasa — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:16:02 +0000

Below is the schedule for a great seminar (Product Realization and Technology Commercialization) that is being held on campus (ETC 2.140) and is open to the public. No need to register, just show up hear from some of the sharpest minds at UT about brining your ideas to market. The seminar is held every Friday leading up to the I2P (Idea-to-Product) competition.

Date	Topic	Key Learnings	Speaker
8/29	Introduction	Technology commercialization, product development, new production introduction; Difference between technology commercialization and new venture creation	Dr. Steven Nichols
9/5	Customer Pain	What is the problem that the technology helps to solve? What is the process that tech entrepreneurs follow to help solve customers’ problems?	Dr. Norm Kaderlan
9/12	Unit Economics	Difference between cost and price; Understand value (customer doesn’t care how much it costs you to make it); Product development and manufacturing cost versus sale price	Tom Ortman
9/19	Funding	Getting projects financed internally at a company; Getting funding externally	Susan Davenport & Jamie Rhodes
9/26	IP	Patents, trademarks, copyrights; provisional patent, continuation, international patent; public domain prior art; lab notebook	Steve Sprinkle
10/3	Entrepreneurship	The mindset and process of an entrepreneur	Dale Misczynski
10/10	Intrapreneurship	The mindset and process of an intrapraneur	Hall T. Martin
10/17	CTO as Founder	What is the role and what are the learnings of a CTO that starts a company?	Dr. Chetan Kapoor
10/24	Competitor Analysis	How are others solving this problem?	Bart Bohn
10/31	I2P Global Competition	Attend I2P Global on Friday Oct. 31 and Saturday Nov. 1 at the AT&T Conference Center
11/7	Your First Dollar	Go to market strategy	Dr. SV Sreenivasan
11/14	Business Plan & Pitch	How to write a business plan; The components of a business plan; raising internal company funds; business plan preparation inside of a company	Dan Watkins & Blair Garrou
11/21	Pitch Deck Review	Idea-to-Product pitch and a business plan (McCombs team visit) pitch with comparison.	Rob Adams

A networking happy hour will follow each seminar from 4-5pm at the Spider House Cafe.

TechCrunch plans on an Austin party

rajiv.bala — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:05:41 +0000

http://www.statesman.com/business/content/business/stories/technology/09/01/0901plugged.html

Moot Corp Winners Open NASDAQ

crabasa — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:00:01 +0000

Rob Adams, center, director of the Moot Corp Program, helps open NASDAQ Aug. 15.

Winners of the 2008 Global Moot Corp Competition hosted by The University of Texas at Austin opened the NASDAQ stock market Friday, Aug. 15 in New York City….

Read the rest of the story at the McCombs Today Blog

Entrepreneur Society Boat Cruise 2008

admin — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:23:31 +0000

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)

Moot Corp Celebrates 25 Years!

crabasa — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:04:53 +0000

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.

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

crabasa — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:23:01 +0000

[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.

Rackspace IPO Hints at Expansion

crabasa — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:57:24 +0000

[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.

PartnerUp

crabasa — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:33:54 +0000

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]

Far From Silicon Valley

crabasa — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:58:10 +0000

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:

UT Entrepreneurship Happy Hour

crabasa — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:26:52 +0000

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!