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MBA Team Wins 2nd Place
Congratulations to our USF Graduate Student Team for their outstanding performance in the 2008 International Venture Capital Investment Competition.
The contest is organized by UNC and is essentially a reverse business plan competition where graduate student teams evaluate entrepreneur pitches from a strategic, financial, technical, and legal perspective. The teams' evaluations are then judged by venture capitalists.
Our team, chosen from graduate student applications from across campus, earned Second Place for their keen analytical and professional presentations. The other teams in the event included the Univ. of Washington (first place), USC, UC Irvine, Santa Clara Univ. and BYU. This is the best performance to date by a USF team and continues to build the upon the strong reputation of our graduate students and brand of our business school among other leading universities.
The USF team of 5 included MBA candidates Carin Smit, Cathy Legg Tanimura, Clarence Wong, and Michael Jimenez-Cruz, and Computer Science Graduate Student - Jeremiah Porten. USF MBA candidate Tomosue Den was the team's first alternate who prepared with the team and will lead next year's team.
The School of Business And Management wishes to thank the team's faculty advisers, Larry Louie and Mark Cannice for the expert advice provided by new adjunct faculty members David Epstein (Venture Partner with Crosslink Capital) and Jon Fisher (VP with Oracle), as well as dedicated coaching from members of last year's USF VCIC team - EMBA alumni Barbara Domingo, and Ray Heinz, and Colin Billings (UC-Hastings Law/USF MBA candidate) as well as key rehearsal business plan pitch support from EMBA alumni - Tom Monahan, Ruya Ozer and Ray Heinz.
We are extremely proud of the team's poise and performance during the entire process. This is the fourth year that USF has been invited to participate in this international event and the best we have done to date.
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