Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Winning $22,000

Skype is a great tool when you are living in Mexico. In an earlier post I wrote about "speed networking for entrepreneurs" - an event I put together to match business people with idea people. At the event I met up with Brian Lawrence a Cornell Biomedical Engineer Phd and we started a medical device company based on his technology. In Mexico I wrote the business plan and Brian and I communicated through Skype and Gchat.

Last week we presented at Cornell University's business plan competition and Rice University's competition. We walked away with over $20,000 and some great contacts. Here are a few articles on the event.

Startup showdown

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2009/smallbusiness/0904/gallery.startup_showdown_2009.smb/5.html

Students play game of capitalism

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/chronicle/6379679.html

# posted by Ben Rollins @ 7:38 PM

Comments:

Hi! It is my first time to visit your blog and i think i need to leave a comment because i find your post very interesting. I will check out the CNN link. I hope i can use it on my business. By the way, Ben you have awesome picture on CNN. I need to read your post on CNN for a while. Thanks for sharing.

# posted by

Dorothy : April 30, 2009 4:41 PM

The CNN link are very cool thanks, great post.

# posted by

Michael : May 1, 2009 4:24 PM

Business is what everyone think about this days. In my case, i also want to know more about it. I will read your few articles on the event from CNN now. Thank you so much for sharing it!

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