TruckItNow at UA Innovation Day 2010
Earlier this year, my team at TruckItNow as part of The University of Arizona McGuire Entrepreneurship Program entered and competed in the 2010 UofA Innovation Day competition. We competed along with 30+ teams for “Best TradeShow Business Pitch,” “Best TradeShow Booth” and “Best Tradeshow Investor Presentation.” My team TruckItNow swept two of the three awards including “Best TradeShow Business Pitch” and “Best Tradeshow Investor Presentation.”
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Does An Entrepreneur Need An M.B.A.?
When evaluating entrepreneurs for potential investments, Rick Burnes, founder of the VC firm Charles River Ventures, shared in the book The VC Way “it helps to look at the educational level a person has attained and the institutions he or she attended. It takes some determination to get through a demanding university.”
I began researching MBA programs shortly after completing my bachelors a little over 10 years ago. I knew I wanted to attend a demanding program if I got the opportunity because of the opinions held by many investors like Burnes. These opinions weren’t new to me because while raising capital for a previous start-up, I had been told by several investors that my lack of an MBA was a negative.
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I Made YouTube’s Homepage
Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, had a huge inspiration on my life after I heard a speech he gave back at the turn of the century called “Regret Minimization Framework.” Earlier this year, an incoming MBA student asked me why I had decided to take a break from my entrepreneurship career and business to complete an MBA (I get that question quite a bit). I borrowed from Jeff Bezos framework saying “studying entrepreneurship and business at the masters level at a top tier entrepreneurship schools has always been a dream of mine. The point came in my life at 33 years of age when I knew I would reget not having done my MBA.”
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McGuire Entrepreneurship Team Redesigns Desert Angel’s Website
The McGuire Entrepreneurship Center team TruckItNow.com over the last 9 months has worked with one of the nation’s leading investment groups. Under the direction of McGuire Professor and Desert Angel Director Bob Morrison and his leadership team at the Desert Angels, the McGuire team has redesigned the legendary investment group’s website and helped them deploy the investment management system AngelSoft.
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Eller MBA and McGuire attend Private Equity Summit
Earlier this month, I joined a group of students from Eller MBA and McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship to the University Private Equity Summit held at the University of Utah located in Salt Lake City. Our goal was to learn about the important role private equity plays in nurturing entrepreneurship and growing businesses. Studies show that where you find healthy entrepreneurs and strong start-ups is where you will also find a healthy private equity market.
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A Day in the Life of an Eller MBA
I am often asked by Eller MBA applicants, arriving first year Eller MBA’s, friends and family what a day is like at The University of Arizona Eller MBA.
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How is The University of Arizona different?
During my summer blog series, I have written posts that I hope to benefit the incoming MBA students here at Eller MBA. When my family and I first moved to Tucson and I started Eller MBA, many of our colleagues, friends and family throughout the US often confused The University of Arizona with either Arizona State University or University of Phoenix. I could see how these schools are easily confused because they have very similar names and even share the same state. Add to that the fact that Arizona’s geography is not as widely known as say California or New York, we have a recipe for confusion.
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Why The University of Arizona Eller MBA?
This post marks the one year anniversary of this blog and I greatly appreciate all the readers who have come here to learn about my experiences over the last 12 months. I officially started this blog in June 2008 when my wife and I made the decision to relocate from Tennessee to Arizona for me to attend The University of Arizona Eller MBA. This blog has served to help us communicate with you, our friends and family, our experiences over the last 12 months and we look forward to sharing more with you over the next 12 months.
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What’s in a 1st Year’s MBA Backpack?
I have come to the end of my first year as an MBA student at The University of Arizona and it has been a fun, exciting and at the same time challenging adventure. As a 2nd year MBA, I’ve had the pleasure to welcome some of the great MBA students who will be next year’s 1st year MBA’s. As a welcome gift, this post will be dedicated to you the incoming class at Eller MBA.
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Calculating the Value of Solar Power
This spring semester, I had the honor to serve as team leader for an Eller MBA Field Project. Eller MBA utilizes field projects to provide first-year MBA students and graduate students from other disciplines consulting experience that utilizes and builds upon the skills and knowledge acquired from the core MBA courses. My Eller MBA Project Team consisted of myself and 3 other Eller MBA students assigned to lead the staff at AzRISE in one of their current organizational projects.
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