This is an interview with Verkata CEO, Alper Turgut. Verkata is a startup software company developing mobile and podcasting applications. Alper talks about many of the challenges that all startups face but he also gives some cool tips on how to be successful with your business.
Note: This is the last episode for Spring 2007 and now we are going to take a break and return full strenght in the Fall. We might do a couple of interviews during the summer but nothing concrete yet.
As the only University Business Plan Competition in China open to complete graduate teams from other universities, the HKUST Competition provides a unique entrepreneurial opportunity for all graduate students. Total awards for the competition was approximately $25,000; however, the real prize is the chance for graduate students to offer their business proposals before an international panel of investors and executives in the financial hub of Asia.
A group of MBA students went on a tour of the AT&T baseball park in San Francisco. After the tour Chuck Tucker, the director of sales for the Giants baseball team, talked about some of the marketing challenges he faces. For example, how to sell the less popular seats and how to keep the park full in the future after the Giant’s superstar, Barry Bonds, retires in 2008.
This is an interview with Verkata CEO, Alper Turgut. Verkata is a startup software company developing mobile and podcasting applications. Alper talks about many of the challenges that all startups face but he also gives some cool tips on how to be successful with your business.
As the only 
A group of MBA students went on a tour of the 