The Lion Launch Pad was featured today in a news article on the College of Information Sciences and Technology’s site: “Innovative ‘Business Accelerator’ Rolls Out New Web Site”. The article discusses the focus on the mentoring aspect of the Lion Launch Pad, which was a key driver for the new site. The article also gives some good background on the program, as well as why we’re calling it a ‘business accelerator’.

From the article:

“The Lion Launch Pad is called a business accelerator because it’s not a business incubator in the conventional sense,” according to Shedd. “Similarly, the Lion Launch Pad is quite different from the existing incubators at Penn State, so we wanted to distinguish it.”

The article also mentions the upcoming feature story on the Lion Launch Pad and entrepreneurs in IST in the forthcoming summer edition of i-Connect, the college’s alumni magazine.

All in all, great press for the program! Thanks very much to Charlie DuBois and the IST Communications team for taking the time to understand the Lion Launch Pad and its mission!