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The third event for TAD was a half day program design to teach high-tech entrepreneurs how to build a business. The keynote speaker was Rusty Cone, president, Alliance Systems Ltd., Plano, a Texas-based company specializing in communications and computing solutions. The event also had two contests to give entrepreneurs hands-on experience. An "elevator pitch" contest enabled entrepreneurs to learn how to tell their story in a minute or two to approximate the time it would take to tell their story to a potential investor riding in the same elevator. The second contest was a business plan contest sponsored by Andrews Kurth LLP, a national law firm based in Texas. Contestants competed in small groups and had expert coaches as they created a fictitious high-tech company, write a business plan for it, and make a presentation to investors and to the Technology Day audience. A prize of $1000 was awarded to the winning team. A late afternoon panel entitled How to Build a Business from Seed-Stage to Rollout of Product to First Customers featured experts who shared secrets of success for building a high-tech business. Panel members were John Baker, president, Venture Research, Inc.; Laurence Briggs, CEO & co-founder, The InvestIN Group; and Harlan Kappel, business financial advisor, American Express Financial Advisors Inc. JANUARY 2005 PRESS RELEASES
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