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From McCombs TODAY
Faculty, students and the public are encouraged to attend the Global Moot Corp competition taking place May 8-9 at the McCombs School of Business. The Moot Corp competition is the oldest and most prestigious business-plan competition in the country, and this year’s event features 40 teams from 11 countries vying for a grand-prize [...]

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From Austin American-Statesman in McCombs Today
What has changed at Phurnace Software since it was founded two years ago?
Not much. Only the product, the marketing strategy, the customers it wanted to target, its hiring plan and the amount of money it intended to raise. Also the sales strategy — three times.
“At one point, we stopped writing [...]

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From McCombs TODAY
FocalPop, a Web-based solution for finding quality stock photography, won the Texas round of the Moot Corp® competition, the new-venture competition hosted annually at the McCombs School of Business.
The win at the Feb. 18 competition earned FocalPop a berth in the Global Moot Corp competition, which will be held in Austin May 7-9. [...]

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