McCombs Alumni Network News

From McCombs Director of Communications David Wenger and ID University
Are you willing to obsess over costs, eat Ramen for dinner, toil far from the PR limelight, and build the business one customer at a time?
I walked the path over to Chris Treadaway’s blog, The Common Sense Web…An Entrepreneurs’ Blog, and was immediately taken by his [...]

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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 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 McCombs Today
McCombs School of Business Dean Tom Gilligan hosted a panel of distinguished professors from across The University of Texas at Austin April 28 to discuss the policy decisions President Barack Obama has made to help ease the current recession. Taking part in the discussion were Bernard S. Black from the School of Law [...]

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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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