McCombs TODAY

Looking to bring together Austin’s entrepreneurial community and UT students, the McCombs Entrepreneur Society is hosting Start Up Meet Up, a one-day entrepreneurship conference. The conference will feature panel discussions on market validation, entrepreneurial law, digital-era marketing and start-up capital.
McCombs alumnus Brett Hurt, founder and CEO of Bazaarvoice, is the keynote speaker, and McCombs faculty members [...]

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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 their businesses through the choppy [...]

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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. The Global [...]

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Moot Corp is the oldest and most prestigious student business-plan competition in the United States. In the first-ever reunion of past Texas Moot Corp winners, the founders of seven companies will share their stories and insights into the start-up process. This panel discussion, followed by a question and answer session, will cover topics such as [...]

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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 which won [...]

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