Who’s that on The University of Arizona homepage?
I was contacted last week by The University of Arizona and informed that I would be highlighted on their homepage. As you can imagine, I was very proud of such an honor.
To read the article that The University of Arizona wrote about my entrepreneural life and how I used The University of Arizona to improve my business skills, click here. (To see a larger version of the homepage, click here.)
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TruckItNow Featured in Arizona Daily Star
The Arizona Daily Star featured TruckItNow (now known as Post.Bid.Ship.) along with a quote from my business partner Jarret Hamstreet. It isn’t the Wall Street Journal but it is a pretty good start!
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Fundraising Strategies for Entrepreneurial Ventures
This month, we are featuring our first guest writer. Jarret Hamstreet, the co-founder of Post.Bid.Ship., and I were invited to share with the graduates of The University of Arizona McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship our experience transitioning from graduate school to entrepreneurship. After receiving the invitation to speak, Jarret started writing down the most important lessons he learned while raising capital for Post.Bid.Ship. Thanks Jarret for sharing your knowledge with McGuire graduates and mickythompson.com.
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Post.Bid.Ship. appears on Arizona Illustrated
My Post.Bid.Ship. co-founder Jarret Hamstreet and I recently appeared on Arizona Illustrated where we shared our insight on the state of entrepreneurship in Arizona. Press the play button on the video below to watch our interview and see Post.Bid.Ship.’s TV debut.
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TruckItNow Awarded $139,000 Arizona Commerce Authority Grant
Great news! My team and I learned today that the Arizona Commerce Authority awarded our start-up TruckItNow, Inc. a grant under the Arizona Innovation Challenge program. TruckItNow will receive up to $139,000 under the terms of the grant to commercialize our flagship product, Post.Bid.Ship.℠
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How Post.Bid.Ship. Does A Tradeshow
This past week, Post.Bid.Ship. (formerly TruckItNow) held our first official tradeshow as a company. Coincidence has it that Dr. Randy Accetta of the McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship at The University of Arizona the previous week invited us to share with his students our insight into how to best prepare for a tradeshow.
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My Outsourced Life
Last month, I was invited by The University of Arizona’s Professor Amar Gupta to speak to students of his Outsourcing of Professional Activities class and share with them my experiences with professional outsourcing and off-shoring.
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My Entrepreneurship Life
Earlier this fall, I delivered a presentation on my experiences as an entrepreneur to The University of Arizona’s Entrepreneurship Student Association. The club president, Brittany Hultstrom, and ESA members were so appreciative. I hope my bits of wisdom on the subject of entrepreneurship helps to better equip and motivate these young students to have the courage one day to launch their own ventures.
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Filed under: Eller MBA,Entrepreneurship,Life Experiences,Post.Bid.Ship.
The TruckItNow Cannonball Run Challenge
It started when a friend from Tennessee asked me to join him for the Alabama/Arkansas game in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The same day, Jarret’s old room-mate, Pete Mittelholzer, asked if he could help him ship some personal items from Tucson to his new home in Austin, Texas. When you combine this with my wife’s desire for some items in a storage unit we left in Tennessee, it became obvious: a road trip was in my future.
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Making the Cover of Eller Progress Magazine
Recently, I received one of the greatest honors of my life: I was selected for the cover and feature article of the Fall 2010 edition of Eller Progress Magazine, a magazine produced by The University of Arizona’s Eller College of Management.
The feature article details my life’s journey from growing up on a farm in Spring Hill, Tennessee, starting and growing three technology companies and then studying at one of the world’s top MBA and Entrepreneurship programs: The University of Arizona’s Eller MBA and McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship.
I hope you enjoy the article. Click here to read the article.
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