Archive for August, 2010

The new school year has started, and with that, the Idea Finishing School has added more students.  A new team has joined PREE Corp. and Flicks and Food in the school; Invictus.  They are a group of engineers from the University of Texas at San Antonio who are working to develop a medical device for premature children.  Like PREE, they also participated in the Spring 2010 $100k Venture Start-up  Competition at UTSA

The new team will make an excellent addition to the school, and reflect our commitment to bring the best technologies to market.  Invictus has already had their first meeting this week and more details and information will come in the following weeks as these new student work their way through our program.

Come meet PREE Corp at the SATC Mixer on September 2nd.

Instead of having PREE Corp speak at the August Idea Xchange and then again at the SATC Mixer, we’ve decided to combine the two events and will now be having our Idea Xchange at the SATC Mixer on September 2nd.

The SATC mixer is a HUGE event. Everyone is San Antonio comes out for the quarterly event, so we figured it would just be better to have PREE focus on that day when everyone can meet them. We know people are busy and may not be able to attend both events, so we’re going to stick with the bigger one.

So if you were wanting to meet PREE Corp and learn about how they’ve managed to become the only graduates from the UTSA Entrepreneurship Program to actually keep developing their company after they graduated and how thanks to IFS, they’ve now gotten $35k in seed money, then come on out the the SATC Mixer on Sept 2nd.

The SATC Mixer is in the San Antonio Technology Center building at 3463 Magic Dr, San Antonio TX 78229 on September 2nd, 2010. It starts at 5pm.

A bonus round to meet PREE Corp!

The Idea Finishing School is located inside a bright red building in San Antonio called the San Antonio Technology Center.

Each quarter, they have their own big shindig. The next one is the Fall Mixer, and it’s on September 2nd. These are normally pretty big affairs. They take up the whole downstairs of the building, with an open bar at each end, and have pretty good nibblies. People come from all over San Antonio to socialize and network. There’s always some interesting guest speakers and around the edges, other businesses will set up mini tables showing off their companies.

On Friday, I got a call asking about our August Idea Xchange with PREE Corp, and if PREE would also be available to appear at the September mixer. I said of course, they’d love to. (Then quickly called Rudy to make sure.)

So, it’s going to be a super exciting week for PREE. They’ll be at the August Idea Xchange and then a few days later at the SATC Mixer.

So if the end of Summer and all the partying that goes with it is getting you down, get your social on by coming out to see the Idea Finishing School folks and the PREE Corp group at the August Idea Xchange and then at the SATC Mixer.

This might be one of your last opportunities to say, “I knew them before they were famous”.

Come meet the PREE Corp group at the August Idea Xchange.

Joshua Sellers, Matthew Jackson, Amanda DeKay and Matthew Ellison, the foursome behind the new wireless energy iPhone charger technology that means you never have to plug your phone in again will be the guest speakers at the August Idea Xchange.

PREE Corp are graduates of UTSA and are current students of the Idea Finishing School. Rudy De La Garza initially discovered PREE Corp when he was a judge at the The 100k Venture Startup Competition at UTSA. They didn’t get first place, but Rudy thought they should have, so he immediately talked to them about the Idea Finishing School. Rudy could see the massive potential of the group. They had a great product and the group worked well together.  PREE has already raised some seed capital through IFS and has many more investors and distributors wanting to talk to them.

PREE Corp are currently working on perfecting their marketing pitch and would love to get your feedback on their product at the Idea Xchange.

The Idea Xchange will be on Wednesday August 25th, starting at 4pm

3463 Magic Dr, suite 245
San Antonio, TX 78229

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