/ Modified apr 30, 2015 2:45 p.m.

Student-Run Startup Companies Compete for Cash

Eller College of Management student start-ups will be featured Friday

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Student-run startup companies will compete for up to $10,000 on Friday at the McGuire New Venture Competition and Showcase held at the University of Arizona.

The competing companies are all groups from the McGuire Entrepreneurship Program with the Eller College of Management.

Mat Friedman’s company, InHouse Real Estate Marketing, has developed a platform to help real estate agents free up their time.

Agents always post listings to a local database and then post the listing on their personal sites as well, Friedman said. The program the InHouse team developed allows agents to post a listing to the local database, and then pull that information to post automatically to other websites.

“They don’t want to be spending the time to sit and design print marketing,” he said. “Being in Tucson, there are quite a few agents that use print marketing on the regular. They want to be out with their clients, making sales.”

Members of the public, the competing students, and judges will all vote on prizes for the best ventures at the competition. Groups will have three minutes to present their business cases to the judges before the final six teams are chosen for the final round.

The showcase opens at 9 a.m. Friday, and students will begin pitching their companies to judges at 10 a.m. The event will take place at the Eller College of Management at 1130 E. Helen St.

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