Tepper School of Business
Donald H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurship
JONES CENTER AND QATAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PARK (QSTP) SUCCESSFULLY HOLD FIRST QATAR NEW VENTURE COMPETITION
The Donald H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurship completed its first full year of teaching the Qatar Executive Entrepreneurship Certificate Program in May 2008, and the program's capstone event was the inaugural Carnegie Mellon Qatar New Venture Competition.
The New Venture Competition was organized by Carnegie Mellon University, Doha, to give the participants in the Qatar Executive Entrepreneurship Certificate Program a chance to present their business plans and possibly earn prize money for their ventures.
"We're excited about the entire certificate program, and this venture competition will become an excellent way to expose these entrepreneurs to the venture capital process," said Arthur A. Boni (Jones Center director).
Clinipharma, an asthma-treatment venture, took first place in the May 2008 competition.
UPCOMING JONES CENTER EVENTS
Tepper student Raymond Sekula and CIT Ph.D. candidate Sasha Bakhru won the 2008 Global Moot Corp Competiton and will get to open the NASDAQ market on August 15, 2008! Please visit the "News" page for more details.
John R. "Jack" Thorne, founding director of the Donald H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurship, passed away on February 13, 2008. The entire Tepper community mourns this loss. Please visit the Tepper news site for more information, and please read Dr. Arthur Boni's tribute to Jack Thorne.
Please visit the Tepper School's home page to hear Dr. Arthur Boni discuss how the Jones Center's McGinnis Venture Competition gives student entrepreneurs a chance to prove the viability of their ventures.
