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 [...]

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. [...]

The New York Times has recently published two interesting articles for Penn State entrepreneurs. The first appeared today, If You Use Outlook E-Mail, Meet Xobni, heralding Xobni’s emergence from private beta. After more than seven months of being invitation-only, the product for Microsoft Outlook is now available for public download. The article [...]

An interesting study was released by the Kauffman Foundation. Entitled “Education and Tech Entrepreneurship”, the study has produced a lot of conversation, especially in communities centered around young entrepreneurs, with its finding that “that most U.S.-born tech founders of technology and engineering companies are middle-aged with sixteen years of work experience before they launch [...]

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 [...]

There has been quite a lot of discussion in the blogosphere around the Lion Launch Pad and the Blue Line recently. Much of it appears to have been driven by a recent article in the Centre Daily Times. As of February 8, 2008, Dave Barton requested that the offices at 234 E. College [...]

Daehee Park asked the question that needed to be asked. What’s happening around here?
Apologies for the lack of updates on the blog - this is my fault. It’s incredible what an intense life consulting is, especially when you’re on a project with compressed timelines. That’s left me little time to blog, though [...]

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 [...]

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.

Welcome all to the PSU Startups blog! As I wrote in my personal blog, one of the key drivers for the Lion Launch Pad will be to build a hub of entrepreneurship around the organization.
Dave Barton built a great site for the Lion Launch Pad, but a strong community is the other [...]