UT at Austin Launches Texas Venture Labs
Texas
Venture Labs at The University of Texas at Austin is a campus-wide initiative to
accelerate the rate of start-ups on its campus, offering entrepreneurs an
accelerated route in bringing their innovations to market.
Venture Labs provides direct links to the entrepreneurial, business, technology
and legal resources available both on the campus and in the Texas
entrepreneurial eco-system. Venture Labs enables students, faculty and
researchers to have full access to these resources, while providing the
mentoring, team-building, market and business plan validation, technology
commercialization and domain knowledge needed to start and grow innovative
ventures. For more information, check out the TVL website at
http://tvl.utexas.edu.
TNG Pharmaceuticals Named 2011 Global VLIC Champion
TNG Pharmaceuticals, a team from
the University of Louisville that developed a vaccine to prevent negative
effects to cattle from the horn fly, won the Global Venture Labs Investment
Competition (Global VLIC), hosted by Texas Venture Labs at the McCombs School.
As global champion, TNG Pharmaceuticals received a prize package worth $135,000.
The team will also be invited to open the NASDAQ OMX Stck Market in June with
Rob Adams, Texas Venture Labs director. TNG was also
recognized at Global VLIC competition, held May 6-7, for having the outstanding
written business plan and presentation in its opening round division.
Read more about the Global Champion. For a complete list of the winners,
click here.
Thirty-eight teams from 12 countries competed this year.
Read about all the 2011 teams here.
For information on where some of the previous competitors are today,
click
here.
Started at The University of Texas at Austin by Master of Business
Administration students in 1984, the Venture Labs Investment Competition is the
oldest new venture competition in the world. The competition provides graduate
students with a chance to simulate the process of raising venture capital.
New Name for Competition Announced
Moot Corp Competition Is Now
Venture Labs Investment Competition
2012 Global VLIC
May 2 - 5, 2012
We have changed
our name to the Venture Labs Investment Competition and repositioned ourselves
as “The Super Bowl of Investment Competition.” We will continue to use our
former name, Moot Corp, as part of our tagline for the foreseeable future.
Rob Adams, director of the Venture Labs Investment Competition, explained the
renaming as “reflective of the true nature of what Moot Corp had turned into, a
forum where MBAs from around the world launch their ventures by raising capital.
This competition is far from Moot, and parallels the real-world process and
realities of developing and launching a venture backed company. This renaming
and repositioning aligns the competition with that mission.”
Venture
Labs Investment Competition (vlic.utexas.edu)
– The Super Bowl of Investment Competition (formerly Moot Corp) is the premier
world-wide investment competition hosted annually at The University of Texas at
Austin.
Start-Up
Advice from Moot Corp Alumni
Recently, a panel of former Texas Moot Corp participants
and entrepreneurs gathered to share insights on
topics such as raising venture capital, hiring the right team and how to learn
from mistakes along the way. In the video, they share some excellent advice on
the start-up process.
View the video.
Schedule of Events
Rules and GuidelinesAbout VLIC History
Awards
Texas
Venture Labs Investment Competition
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