2016 MTSU Business Plan Competition

Congratulations to May graduate and Business Plan Competition winner Hunter Marlowe for his Jambourine invention! Wright Travel Chair of Entrepreneurship sponsored the competition, giving a big boost to student entrepreneurship with cash prizes: http://bit.ly/27hMPgp‪#‎entrepreneurship‬

Business Plan Competition for MTSU Students and Alumni

www.mtsubusinessplan2015.istart.org 

The Wright Travel Chair in Entrepreneurship Business Plan Competition is open to MTSU students and alumni. First prize, $7,500; second, $5,000. Applications and submissions are due by noon Feb. 26.

• www.mtsubusinessplan2015.istart.org 
• http://www.mtsu.edu/entre/wright_travel.php

Entrepreneurship Resources

http://www.12thandbroad.com/entrepreneurs 

Jones College of Business is partnering with 12th and Broad on a venture provide resources and information for entrepreneurs. It will feature interviews with the new chairholder of the Wright Travel Chair of Entrepreneurship, Bill McDowell. [Tennessean article]

Tatum Voted Association for Corporate Growth Vice Chair

Doug Tatum, holder of the Wright Travel Chair of Entrepreneurship, was voted vice chairman for 2013-2014 of the Association for Corporate Growth at the group’s annual conference in Orlando, Fla. [Daily News Journal]

Tatum Speaks at Entrepreneur Event

Doug Tatum, Wright Travel Chair in Entrepreneurship

"Frazier & Deeter and the Oxford Center for Entrepreneurs sponsored an entrepreneur event on January 25 in Nashville. Speakers included Bo Burlingham, Cliff Oxford, and Doug Tatum. Tatum is the holder of the Wright Travel Chair in Entrepreneurship. He is a recognized expert on capital markets and entrepreneurial growth businesses, having testified before Congress on more than one occasion concerning the financing issues faced by growing companies. He was the founder and Chairman of the nation’s largest executive services firm, Tatum, LLC. Tatum is also the Chairman of Newport Board Group and its affiliated private equity firm, Evolution Capital partners. Tatum’s ideas concerning growth companies, private equity and the capital markets have been cited by leading media including Inc. Magazine, The Financial Times, New York Times and MSNBC." [Read more] 

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Entrepreneurship Chair GIves Conference Keynote

Doug Tatum, Wright Travel Chair of Entrepreneurship, gave a keynote speech, "No Man’s Land and the Economics of Growing Middle Market Companies," based on his book No Man's Land: Where Growing Companies Fail at the Alliance of Merger and Acquisition Advisors summer conference.

Tatum’s Work in ‘100 Best’ Business Books

A 2007 book by Doug Tatum, holder of the Wright Chair of Entrepreneurship at MTSU, “No Man’s Land: What to Do When Your Company is Too Big to Be Small but Too Small to Be Big,” is included in the recently updated edition of “The 100 Best Business Books of All Time.” (article)

- Murfreesboro Post (Jan. 12, 2010)