Dr. Robert Macy, professor of entrepreneurship in the Smeal College of Business, passed along information on a new course that he will be teaching this fall for the first time. The course will cover the business side of video games. Macy said, “There are classes across this and other campuses that cover art, [...]

Due to the fact that Penn State scheduled Parents & Families Day for October 3-5, we needed to move the dates for Startup Weekend in State College.
The event will now begin the evening of Friday, October 24 and conclude on Sunday, October 26. Please update your calendars! Registration will be opening soon.

Growing an entrepreneurial community seems to be moving higher on everyone’s priority lists. A recent article from Innovation Philadelphia talks about some of the new initiatives in Philly with regard to supporting and connecting entrepreneurs. In the article, the author mentions a handful of the groups emerging in the Philadelphia region to bolster [...]

Continuing on the subject of alternative models for investment in early stage startups, ReadWriteWeb recently covered the launch of Prototype Invest. Prototype Invest is interesting because they don’t invest money into early stage ventures - rather, they provide the venture with technology in exchange for equity. As they state on their web site, [...]

CNet.com and the New York Times are announcing the launch of the latest seed stage funding engine for early stage ventures: NYC Seed. Spurred by New York City Mayor Michael P. Bloomberg, who was a technology entrepreneur himself, the fund has approximately $2 million and plans to provide up to $200,000 per venture in [...]

Budding entrepreneurs now have a new option for early stage funding. College Mogul (also a great site for following the college entrepreneurship world!) is reporting that Obsidian Launch has finally started operations. I heard of Obsidian Launch over half a year ago, but until recently, not much had been mentioned about them and [...]

Today, The Boston Globe featured an article, In a city that plays it safe, incubator has a tough job on the coming Summer 2008 class of Y Combinator startups. YC operates out of Cambridge, MA, for the summer months. The article was more validation that east coast VCs still haven’t made a single [...]

Startup Weekend was holding off until July to officially announce the event, but the investigative crew over at ISTbuilding.com discovered the weekend’s site shortly after it was launched. Further information, the announcement on the main StartupWeekend.com site, and the ticket purchase system are expected to go live in July.
State College Startup Weekend site

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 [...]

Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal published an interesting article, Facebook Ignites Entrepreneurial Spirit at Harvard. The article discusses the Havard students who have been inspired by Mark Zuckerberg’s runaway success with Facebook and have attempted to mirror his efforts. As you would expect, the article indicates a handful of startups have [...]