Arkansas Capital Corp., the Little Rock-based financial lending and consulting shop, is pushing entrepreneurship at multiple levels. This spring, the company completed its 13th annual business plan competition, the Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup, which brought 47 different student teams from 13 different Arkansas college campuses to Little Rock for the well-attended awards luncheon. [Read more…]

A Catch-22 is usually considered a no-win situation from which there is no escape. But for the UALR College of Business team, Catch-22, who won big at the 2013 Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup awards, the moment was sweet victory. In one of the premier business-plan competitions in America, Catch-22 earned a first place award and $25,000 for its undergraduate business proposal to create a high-quality organic fertilizer from Asian carp, an undesirable fish population that has invaded the Mississippi River Basin. [Read more…]

Picasolar, a University of Arkansas startup company that includes two GREEN Ph.D. students, won the $25,000 first place prize in the Arkansas Governor’s Cup business plan competition last Wednesday. The company was formed after Seth Shumate, who works with GREEN faculty researcher Hameed Naseem, discovered a patent-pending process to improve the efficiency of solar cells by as much a 15% and potentially save manufacturers millions of dollars per year. [Read more…]

Picasolar, a team from the University of Arkansas that has developed a patent-pending process to improve the efficiency of solar cells, took the $25,000 first place prize Wednesday in the graduate division at the Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup collegiate business plan competition.     [Read more…]

University of Arkansas business-plan teams continued their run of graduate-level domination at the 2013 Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup Wednesday, sweeping the top three places. Picasolar took first followed by HomeDx and EverClean Coating Solutions. On the undergraduate level, though, top bill in the state’s collegiate business-plan realm is up for grabs. This year, it went to UALR’s Catch-22. Ouachita’s eScout and IMST of Harding took second and third. [Read more…]

Winners of the 2013 Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup Collegiate Business Plan Competition were announced today at a luncheon hosted at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock. The event is managed by The Arkansas Economic Acceleration Foundation, an affiliate of The Arkansas Capital Corporation Group. This year, 47 teams submitted business plans from 13 colleges and universities from across Arkansas for a chance to win a share of the $154,000 prize pool. The 2013 Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup winners are: [Read more…]

Winners of the 2013 Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup Collegiate Business Plan Competition were announced today at a luncheon hosted at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock. The event is managed by The Arkansas Economic Acceleration Foundation, an affiliate of The Arkansas Capital Corporation Group. [Read more…]

Here in Arkansas, student entrepreneurs from the state’s colleges and universities honored yesterday with cash prizes at the 2013 Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup awards. The annual event, once again held at the Statehouse Convention Center, awarded the best graduate and undergraduate student business plans and pitches. [Read more…]

Winners of the 2013 Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup Collegiate Business Plan Competition that is managed by The Arkansas Economic Acceleration Foundation, an affiliate of The Arkansas Capital Corporation Group, were announced today at a luncheon hosted at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock, Ark. John Rutledge, president and chief executive officer of the Little Rock market for First Security Bank, served as the master of ceremonies for the event, which hosted approximately 800 business leaders, students, educators and supporters from across the state for the 13th annual Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup. This year, 47 teams submitted business plans from 13 colleges and universities from across Arkansas for a chance to win a share of the $154,000 prize pool. First and second place winners of the undergraduate and graduate teams will compete against the top two teams from Nevada and Oklahoma for the Donald W. Reynolds Tri-State Award in May, where they will be competing to win a share of the $118,000 prize pool. The 2013 Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup winners are: [Read more…]