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Product Realization and Technology Commercialization Seminar
Below is the schedule for a great seminar (Product Realization and Technology Commercialization) that is being held on campus (Fridays at 3pm, 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.
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Topic |
Key Learnings |
Speaker |
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8/29 |
Introduction |
Technology commercialization, product development, new production introduction; Difference between technology commercialization and new venture creation |
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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? |
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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 |
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9/19 |
Funding |
Getting projects financed internally at a company; Getting funding externally |
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9/26 |
IP |
Patents, trademarks, copyrights; provisional patent, continuation, international patent; public domain prior art; lab notebook |
Steve Sprinkle |
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10/3 |
Entrepreneurship |
The mindset and process of an entrepreneur |
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10/10 |
Intrapreneurship |
The mindset and process of an intrapraneur |
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10/17 |
CTO as Founder |
What is the role and what are the learnings of a CTO that starts a company? |
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10/24 |
Competitor Analysis |
How are others solving this problem? |
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10/31 |
I2P Global Competition |
Attend I2P Global on Friday Oct. 31 and Saturday Nov. 1 at the AT&T Conference Center |
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11/7 |
Your First Dollar |
Go to market strategy |
Dr. SV Sreenivasan |
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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 |
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11/21 |
Pitch Deck Review |
Idea-to-Product pitch and a business plan (McCombs team visit) pitch with comparison. |
A networking happy hour will follow each seminar from 4-5pm at the Spider House Cafe.
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TechCrunch plans on an Austin party
http://www.statesman.com/business/content/business/stories/technology/09/01/0901plugged.html
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Moot Corp Winners Open NASDAQ
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
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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
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
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:
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