Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon

McGinnis Venture Competition Launches New Companies on the Road to Success

Published in Cancer Weekly, March 30th, 2010

A promising cure for ovarian cancer seeking funding to begin clinical trials; a person-to-person car-sharing program that could reduce carbon emissions; a device to enable power-generation facilities to save billions of dollars annually--these were the winning ventures in the seventh-annual McGinnis Venture Competition held March 11-13, 2010 and hosted by the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University.

Twenty-six teams from MBA schools across North America as well as from India, Columbia, Canada and the United Kingdom brought their visions of real start-up companies to this three-day competition, founded seven years ago through a generous gift from Gerald...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2010-03-30)

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