Five teams made their best pitches Monday in the final round of the University of Richmond’s annual business competition.
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Dominion Club pitches plan
The Dominion Club has issued a plan to reemerge as a sustainable business, but a major obstacle remains.
VEDP finds its pitchman
The Virginia Department of Economic Development on Tuesday named its new CEO on Tuesday.
Startup scores a home run on the second pitch
The New Dominion Angels and two other Virginia venture capital groups have invested $450,000 to help Phthisis Diagnostics bring its innovation to market.
Interactive watch wins VCU pitch contest
A watch that monitors your workout. That idea was chosen as the best pitch at a business plan competition for VCU students earlier this week.
Local pitch not enough to lure Google
VCU may have toppled the Kansas Jayhawks, but Kansas City, Kan. vanquished Richmond and 1,100 other localities in the battle over Google Fiber. According to several news reports this week, Kansas City has been chosen as the test spot for Google’s Fiber for Communities, an experimental broadband network that would deliver data at speeds of… Read more »
Five Israeli companies pitch clean tech
Five Israeli startups pitched their business plans to investors and local officials in Richmond.
Student entrepreneur has perfect pitch
A Kindle-style tablet that its inventor hopes will display sheet music and also transcribe songs into musical notation is music to the judges’ ears at UR’s annual business pitch contest, plus four other promising startups.
City posts pitch to Google
Richmond’s pitch to Google — urging the company to pick the city for its high-speed broadband experiment — is now online. It features some familiar faces and places and is worth a look. Richmond faces competition from pretty much every locality in the country. The only good point I think they forgot to make is… Read more »
Highwoods pitches plan to Shockoe Bottom
Planners of a proposed downtown ballpark development made a pitch to and fielded questions from residents and business owners Monday night at the Shockoe Bottom Neighborhood Association’s monthly meeting. “The area you are looking at for redevelopment is mostly parking lots. There really hasn’t been any significant development here since [tropical storm] Gaston,” said Highwoods… Read more »