World's richest and largest student startup competition launches new People’s Choice Competition

HOUSTON – (March 23, 2015) – Forty-two teams hailing from some of the world's top universities will vie for more than $1 million in prizes at the 15th annual Rice Business Plan Competition at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business April 16-18

Seed accelerators Angelpad, MuckerLab and Techstars landed the top spots in the third Seed Accelerator Rankings announced March 17 at South by Southwest (SXSW) by entrepreneurship and management experts from Rice University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Richmond.

The 2014 winner of the Rice University Business Plan Competition — Medical Adhesive Revolution (MAR) of RWTH Aachen University, Germany – announced this week that it will relocate its headquarters to Houston. MAR executives made the announcement Oct. 16 as they rang the Nasdaq stock market closing bell in New York City's Times Square.

Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business has the No. 4 graduate entrepreneurship program in the U.S. for the third consecutive year, according to rankings announced Sept. 16 by the Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine.