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 [...]

Earlier this week, Penn State Live featured an article on Erik Davidson and his two companies, Triple Overtime Promotions Buzby Networks. Davidson, a graduate of the class of 2008 with a BS in Electric Engineering, helped found Triple Overtime Promotions which has expanded beyond producing PSU-branded magnets to include other colleges and universities around [...]

Another Penn State startup recently announced a business plan competition win! Meezik, a company that develops applications for social networks like Facebook, took 2nd place in the 6th Annual 2008 Great Valley Business Plan Competition. The founders of Meezik discuss their entry in the contest here. Meezik won $5,000 prize money and [...]

Matthew Gross, founder of MG Walls LLC, a materials science and engineering student was named the winner of the Penn State inaugural Idea Pitch competition. Matthew’s company won the contest with its business plan detailing the manufacture, marketing, and distribution of PolyWall, a synthetic alternative to drywall.
“The product offers customers ease of installation, long [...]

For Penn Staters interested in news and discussions around Startup Weekend, IdeaBlob, and other exciting web 2.0/entrepreneurial topics at Penn State, a new Google Group has been created to keep everyone informed. You can request to join the group here. Within 12 hours of the group being created, the discussion has already started. [...]

As posted in late April, Matt Allison, a Penn State senior, was the second PSU student to have an idea place as a finalist on ideablob.com. I was excited to learn that Matt’s idea was named the winner of the monthly contest! Tomorrow, Matt will also become the second PSU student to receive [...]

State College, PA, is now the leading venue for Startup Weekend. Currently, it has 394 votes compared with its next nearest contender Columbus with 352. Great job everyone, spreading the word via Facebook groups, blogs, and word of mouth!

This is truly a demonstration of the power of the Penn State entrepreneurship community to [...]