Everybody knows some of the biggest entrepreneurs in recent history: Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Pierre Omidyar, Steve Jobs, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, but we often fail to give credit to those who have helped them.
There exists an aura of the sole programmer hacking away all hours of the day, or a visionary making key [...]

Here is an opportunity for businesses in State College (startups and established alike) to take advantage of free advertising on Google.
I am participating in the Google Online Marketing Challenge, which is an academic event that will take place this coming spring. This is an international competition where academic teams like ours at PSU compete [...]

The Daily Collegian published an article today regarding the PSU Y Combinator startups - Weebly and Xobni. It’s good background on some of the details regarding the founding of Weebly. In it, Xobni co-founder Matt Brezina makes the following statement:
“You don’t get exposed to [startups] enough at Penn State,” he said. “You think [...]

We were pirates. And we still are. My business partner and I have been “stealing” our time away from Corporate America since the age of 19. So far, it’s working!
When we began building our first business years ago, we had to be “creative”. We didn’t have office space or computers so [...]

I’ve finally gotten this blog mostly setup now, so now it’s time to invite some guest authors to participate in the dialog. If you’re interested in writing, please leave a comment on this post.