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Congratulations to the all the participating teams of the 2008 New Venture Champion. The 17th annual NVC involved both intriguing products and intelligent business plans, but there can only be one grand prize winner.
Drum roll, please…
Intel Capital Finals Round
The 2008 NVC Champion of […]

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Final Presentations concluded today with venture group Electrisense from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
TJ Patel and Erich Stuntebeck presented their solution to indoor real-time asset tracking. By using existing power lines within the building infrastructure, the venture keeps hardware costs low. The […]

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The University of Oregon venture team TakeShape continued competing this morning in the Final Presentation Round.
The team plans to license a patented 3D body scanner to institutional sports teams to create leverage into the retail health and fitness market. The group already […]

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Final Presentations continued with Frederic Mazella who makes up the Comuto team from Insead, Singapore.
The Comuto venture is an online platform that connects drivers and passengers to create an online carpool connection. Comuto already has 80,000 active users in France since it […]

This is a guest post by Eileen Chang of Allen Hall Public Relations
The University of South Carolina’s MadWise presented their product and business plan to the Lightning Round judges this morning. The concept of the product is to provide robotic solutions into everyday products and services.
The team took 15 minutes to enlighten the judges that […]

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The Final Presentations Round began today with a presentation from venture team Klymit, from Brigham Young University. In the final round, each team has 15 minutes to present with 20 minutes of questions from the audience and the panel of judges.
The Klymit group […]

Congratulations to the qualifying finalists of the 2008 New Venture Championship. Here they are in alphabetical order:

Brigham Young University
Georgia Institute of Technology
INSEAD
Stanford
University of Oregon

They will be competing in tomorrow morning’s Intel Capital Finalist Round, which could lead them to the final grand prize of $50,000.
As for the remaining fifteen teams, they have one more chance […]

This guest post is by Eileen Chang of Allen Hall Public Relations
The first team to receive feedback from its Semifinal presentation just came out from the Conference Room. Advotech from the University of Manitoba was judged by Jim Huston, John Hull, Michael Lind, Steve Lord and Skip Rung.
The team’s immediate reaction is “it was very […]

This is a guest post by Eileen Chang of Allen Hall Public Relations

Dave Hersh, CEO of Jive Software, joined the New Venture Championship today to give an inspiring keynote address to the competing teams, faculty advisors, venture capitalists and other attendees at the keynote luncheon.
He told his story of how Jive got started up, from […]

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Hand sanitizers take a new approach with Cleanspray, the new venture from the team at Bond University in Australia. This anti-bacterial personal sanitizer offers a product that kills 99.9 percent of germs and is gentle on the hands. The Cleanspray team has developed […]