McCombs Alumni Network News

From The Austin American-Statesman
Pricing for plane tickets, car rentals and hotels is constantly changing. Why not for sporting events, too?
That’s what Barry Kahn wondered three years ago, when he was a University of Texas doctoral degree candidate in economics.
Convinced there was a business there, he teamed with UT MBA student Jiten Dalvi in 2007 to [...]

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From McCombs Director of Communications David Wenger and ID University
“There is nothing like Glasstire in Texas. There’s not anything like Glasstire in most of the country.”
With those words Rainey Knudson begins a video interview about Glasstire, her online journal of Texas art, recently recognized as a finalist for the National Arts Journalism Summit, the theme [...]

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From McCombs Today

AUSTIN, Texas— A company hoping to significantly slow the onset of antibiotic resistance has claimed the grand prize at the 26th annual Global Moot Corp Competition at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin.
Novophage Therapeutics from Boston University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology beat out 39 teams [...]

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From McCombs TODAY

Left to right: Brian Romanko, Becky Parker, Rob Adams, director of Moot Corp, Ronnie Lebert and Eddie Howard
AUSTIN, TX – FocalPop, Inc., which represented the McCombs School of Business at the 2009 Global Moot Corp competition, took home several awards May 9. Within the technology track, FocalPop earned “Outstanding Written Business Plan” and “Outstanding Market” [...]

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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 and Texas Magazine
By Rob Adams
The Chinese might have been prescient about the current world situation when they coined the phrase “may you live in interesting times.” However, most entrepreneurs and business owners are finding these times a little too interesting for comfort, and they are looking for insight on how to manage [...]

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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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From Austin Business Journal
University of Texas business students know winning the Texas Moot Corp Competition, one of the most prestigious business plan competitions in the country, pays off — literally.
The 26-year-old Moot Corp Competition at UT’s McCombs School of Business has been the launching pad for many startups. In the last six years, eight Texas [...]

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McCombs Today
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. Rob Adams, director of the Moot Corp program and management lecturer did the honors along with NeuroBank, the team of MBA students from Carnegie Mellon University [...]

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