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UW venture capitalist team wins national competition It looks as if the University of Washington may have some budding venture capitalists walking the halls. For the second time in the past three years, a team from the UWs MBA program won the national Venture Capital Investment Competition. People are pretty excited around here today, considering who we beat, UW business school spokeswoman Nancy Gardner said. Other schools that participated included MIT, Harvard and Michigan. The competition, hosted by the University of North Carolina allows students to emulate the job of venture capitalists. As part of the competition, the teams evaluate a pitch from
In a unique partnership, students from the three premier institutes of Ahmedabad - Indian Institute of Management, National Institute of Design and Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad - have got together to put their core skills in creating business plans for start-up ventures. The collaboration, which currently revolves around the students of one institute taking up elective courses in the other institutes, has led to students from NID taking up the business design aspect, students of Mica taking up the communications management, while their counterparts from IIM-A shaping the financial side of the business plan. With a number of top venture capitalists
Fortune Small Business magazine reports that both the undergraduate and MBA programs offered by Indiana Universitys Kelley School of Business are among the top programs nationally for aspiring entrepreneurs. While Fortune Small Business did not rank the programs, Kelley was one of two schools that were singled out in presentations of the top four MBA and top five undergraduate programs in the magazines September issue. The report also is featured at CNNMoney.com. The magazine based its findings on interviews with hundreds of entrepreneurs, professors, students, alumni, university administrators and venture capitalists. More : newsinfo.iu.edu
Often criticised for not doing enough for the society despite getting attractive remuneration packages, students from top business schools across the country are using skills learnt in the campus to make inroads into social entrepreneurship. As many as 65 entries have come for the Social Entrepreneurship Fair, to be organised in September by Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) and its Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE). The event has bagged a Rs 5 lakh title sponsorship from Dena Bank and has caught the eye of prominent social entrepreneurs and venture capitalists who have shown interest in offering
UNM students pocket $25,000 in University-wide Technology Business Plan Competition After months of sweating the details and false starts – and despite the heavy load of classes associated with being full-time students, 17 teams presented plans at the University of New Mexico’s first Technology Business Plan Competition held recently. A who’s who of New Mexico venture capitalists, including VSpring’s Paul Ahlstrom, Verge’s Ray Rasosevich, and New Mexico Community Capital’s Jarratt Applewhite, whittled the group of 17 down to six finalist teams and then awarded first, second and third place prizes worth more than $40,000 to the top three teams. Satyrne Biotechnologies, a
NEW DELHI: A two-day conference called "Destination Uttar Pradesh 2005," is aimed at investors, which will be held on Thursday. The conference was organised by the BIS Development Council and the Birla Institute of Management Technology. More than 20 NRIs, venture capitalists and India, more than 100 companies and large enterprises attended the conclave. Political leadership and the state bureaucracy has invited investors to invest in the country. The chairman of the Aditya Birla group, Kumar Mangalam Birla, has assured investors that the State as well as any other destination and outlined plans for investment in the country. CM Mulayam
NEW DELHI: A two-day conference called "Destination Uttar Pradesh 2005," is aimed at investors, which will be held on Thursday. The conference was organised by the BIS Development Council and the Birla Institute of Management Technology. More than 20 NRIs, venture capitalists and India, more than 100 companies and large enterprises attended the conclave. Political leadership and the state bureaucracy has invited investors to invest in the country. The chairman of the Aditya Birla group, Kumar Mangalam Birla, has assured investors that the State as well as any other destination and outlined plans for investment in the country. CM Mulayam Singh Yadav, guarantees
The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), a non-profit global network of entrepreneurs, is looking at funding nearly 100 business plans in the next two years from Ahmedabad. Badri Mahapatra, executive director of TiE-Ahmedabad, said nearly 50 students from Ahmedabad had approached the organisation with their business ideas. “Students from the city have come up with innovative business models in the IT/ITeS, healthcare and education sectors. Typically, the business plans require an investment of Rs 2,00,000 to 25,00,000,” he said. Students and representatives from the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information Communication Technology, National Institute of Design and its incubator, Entreprenuership Development Institute of India and its
MANGALORE: The basis of Manipal T.A. Pai Management Institute (TAPMI) annual three-day festival, 'Atharva', from December 6. Top business schools in the country are expected to attend the event, which is expected that "an opportunity for the process of learning between students and management of the industry." According to the organizers, he told the press here on Tuesday, events for which all of the money price of Rs 2.75 lach, TA Pai Young Memorial Business Leader competition, is "one of the distinctions in the B-School - Circuit. "winners of this year, according to the organizers, 'go away with money from prizes worth
Only 50% of British businesses undertake talent management activities, despite a majority recognising that it has an impact on their bottom line, according to research launched by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) at a series of conferences held in London. The research found that 38% of companies have a formal talent management strategy and the same percentage have a formal definition of talent management. The report found that companies have very different definitions of talent management. Paul Turner, professor and executive in residence at Nottingham Business School, told the conference: “There are those [companies] that have an exclusive
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 05/03/07 -- Sernova Corp. (TSX VENTURE: SVA) is pleased to announce that Sernova Director Dr. George Adams has been appointed Chair of the Board of Directors, effective immediately. Dr. Adams, who is also CEO and a director of Amorfix Life Sciences Ltd. (TSX VENTURE: AMF), replaces long time Chairman Dr. William Cochrane, who asked to step down from the position. Dr. Cochrane will continue to serve as a director and member of board committees. The Company wishes to thank Dr. Cochrane for his steady and experienced guidance during his 6 year tenure as
ManhattanGMATs Social Venture Scholarships As editors of a blog gaining some traction online, we get requests to promote certain products, events, or websites. We are always happy to get these requests, but mostly they are only peripherally related to the philanthropy sector so weve passed on them. In the case of the Manhattan GMAT Social Venture Scholarships, however, we jumped at the opportunity to involve the FLiP community. Here is the offer: Manhattan GMAT, the world is largest GMAT-exclusive test prep company, is offering up to 25 individuals the chance to take their preparation class (valued at nearly $1,400) for
Companies associated with Georgia Techs science and technology incubator have raised more than a billion dollars in venture capital since 1999 - and in 2006 accounted for 10 of the top 25 venture deals in Georgia, including the two largest. The incubator, the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC), has turned out 112 science and technology companies since 1986 - including 31 that have been represented on the public markets through IPOs or acquisitions. At a May 10 event held to showcase the incubators companies, ATDC graduated six early-stage firms - three Internet companies, two semiconductor firms and a developer of