Murphy Enterprise Center awards $25,000 to UNT students with winning business plans

E-Opportunity — a company created by two UNT students that creates Internet strategies and web sites for new, small and growing businesses — claimed the top prize last month in the first New Venture Creation Contest sponsored by UNT's Murphy Enterprise Center.

The contest, which replaces the center's annual Shirley Murphy Business Plan Contest, rewards UNT students who develop unique and innovative business ideas. Tucker Covington, a junior majoring in business with a professional field in entrepreneurship, and Justin Thomason, who will receive his bachelor's degree in business with an entrepreneurship professional field in August, received $15,000 for creating E-Opportunity.

Sophomore Daniel Strebe, also an entrepreneurship student, received the second-place prize of $10,000 for creating Strebe Imports, which will provide handmade leather products directly to retailers.

In addition to the prize money, all of the students will receive help from business mentors provided by the Murphy Enterprise Center to launch their companies.

BY NANCY KOLSTI nkolsti@unt.edu

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