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MBA Alumni Owned Company, Hourville, Awarded Top Honors

February 24th, 2009 · Alumni News · MBA News · Posted by Christine Burdell

Texas Evening MBA alumni, Matt Trudeau, Fadi Gabra, Craig McDonald and Nicholas Van Loan, launched Hourville in 2008 as a marketplace and community where people can buy and sell virtually anything that can be priced by the hour.

Hourville received top honors as one of the ten most promising companies (of 55) at the Rice Alliance I.T. and Web 2.0 Venture Forum in December and was recently named one of 20 finalists in the Microsoft BizSpark Accelerator at the upcoming SXSW Interactive festival. Hourville was chosen out of 200+ applicants from 5 countries. The winners of the Accelerator contest will be determined at SXSW on March 16.

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  • 1 Anthony Stevens // Mar 8, 2009 at 10:16 am

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