Thanks to a growing show of support from Penn Staters, including a Facebook group and posts on student-run blogs, State College has moved into 7th place on Startup Weekend’s City Vote page. It’s fantastic to see such interest from the Happy Valley community! Currently, State College has received 90 votes, placing it ahead [...]

In late February, TechCrunch reported on rumors of Xobni’s potential acquisition by Microsoft. Today, TechCrunch writes that Xobni had indeed been in negotiations with Microsoft and had proceeded to sign a letter of intent. However, Xobni has apparently walked away from the $20 million dollar deal, apparently over concerns of its future after [...]

Have you heard of Startup Weekend?
Here’s how the organizers describe it:
“Startup Weekend recruits a highly motivated group of developers, business managers, startup enthusiasts, marketing gurus, graphic artists and more to a 54 hour event that builds communities, companies and projects.”
The organizers have recently started taking suggestions for where to hold the next events. Sounds [...]

The new web site for the Lion Launch Pad has been re-launched! We aimed to keep it simple and succinct, though if there is any content that would be useful, please let us know. Some additions are planned for the next few months.

Penn State students are doing well on ideablob.com! Matt Allison’s Personal Trainer concept has been named a finalist for April. Matt is a senior majoring in Economics and minoring in Engineering Entrepreneurship.
More information on the concept is below – please visit ideablob.com and support Matt’s idea!
Personal Trainer on a portable touch screen device [...]

Aaron Fleishman, a Penn State senior majoring in Chemisty, won $10,000 from ideablob.com’s February contest for Mashavu.com. Mashavu’s concept is a cell-phone based system for disaster relief. Read more on Mashavu’s blog and on ideablob.com. Congratulations, Aaron & team!