ReQwip : business plan and go-to-market strategy

textThe nature of this Report is to outline the proposed business opportunity for reQwip -- an online marketplace for buying, selling and renting sports equipment -- and the go-to-market strategy for this young startup. reQwip is an Austin, Texas-based technology company founded by students and alumni of The University of Texas at Austin for the purpuse of creating a mobile, peer-to-peer (P2P) marketplace for buying, selling and renting new and used sports equipment. ReQwip is launching its minimum viable product (MVP) in Spring 2014. The MVP is a liquid marketplace focused specifically on buying and selling new and used cycling and triathlon gear in Austin,TX and greater Central Texas. This MVP is our gateway into a sporting goods industry worth $150 billion in sales worldwide and$54 billion in the United States, of which $1-3 billion is used gear sales in the U.S.AdvertisingBusiness Administratio

New Lepidoptera-Parasitoid Associations in Weedy Corn Plantings: A Potential Alternate Host for \u3ci\u3eOstrinia Nubilalis\u3c/i\u3e (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) Parasitoids

Larvae of the common sooty wing, Pholisora catullus, and pupae of the yellow-collared scape moth, Cisseps Fulvicollis, were collected in corn plantings containing different manipulated, indigenous weed communities to determine if these Lepidoptera had parasitoid species in common with the European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis. Pholisora catullus larvae were collected from lambsquarter, Chenopodium album, and redroot pigweed, Amaranthus retroflexus, whereas pupae of C. Julvicollis were obtained from corn. Four parasitoid species were reared from P. catulIus: Cotesia pholisorae, Oncophanes americanu (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), Gambrus ultimus, and Sinophorus albipalpus (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). Of these, O. americanus and S. albipalpus represent new host records. Gambrus ultimus, however, was probably parasitizing a primary parasitoid of P. catullus. Itoplectis conquisitor and Vulgichneumon brevicinctor (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) were reared from C. fulvicollis; V. brevicinctor had not previously been associated with this host. Both species reared from C. fulvicollis and Gambrus ultimus have been reported from O. nubilalis