MyHaggle and Cascade Crews win UO Venture Quest Competition

EUGENE, Ore. -- (June 10, 2008) -- MyHaggle, a patent-pending technology-based discount "For Sale by Owner" Web application, won the $500 first place award for undergraduate business majors at the Undergraduate Venture Quest business plan competition held Friday, June 6, at the Lillis Business Complex at the University of Oregon.

Cascade Crews Corporation, a premium firefighting services provider, won the $500 first-place award for undergraduate business minors. This year's Venture Quest competition featured 10 teams of students from the UO Charles H. Lundquist College of Business (LCB).

More than 20 teams competed for selection as a VQ finalist team representing a 50 percent increase from previous years' competitions.

MyHaggle team members were Nick Wiley and Daniel Kalman. Kalman is an honors student in the LCB and will graduate this term. Wiley, a junior, will return next year to complete his business degree concentrating in entrepreneurship through the Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship.

Cascade Crews Corporation, is the business venture of Joseph Mintzlaff, a senior majoring in economics with a minor in business at the LCB.

The Venture Quest competition is one of the flagship events of the Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship. The Lundquist Center was recently named the 16th best entrepreneurship center in the nation by US News & World Report and has been nationally ranked every year of its 18-year history. For five consecutive years, Entrepreneur Magazine ranked the Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship in the top four percent of the more than 1,000 entrepreneurship programs identified by the magazine.

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Contact: Dick Sloan, 541-346-3291, rsloan@uoregon.edu

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