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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

Go2Athlete, one of the companies working out of the Lion Launch Pad, was featured on WTAJ News in December.
Here’s the clip on YouTube:

Everybody knows some of the biggest entrepreneurs in recent history: Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Pierre Omidyar, Steve Jobs, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, but we often fail to give credit to those who have helped them.
There exists an aura of the sole programmer hacking away all hours of the day, or a visionary making key [...]

The Daily Collegian published an article today regarding the PSU Y Combinator startups - Weebly and Xobni. It’s good background on some of the details regarding the founding of Weebly. In it, Xobni co-founder Matt Brezina makes the following statement:
“You don’t get exposed to [startups] enough at Penn State,” he said. “You think [...]

We were pirates. And we still are. My business partner and I have been “stealing” our time away from Corporate America since the age of 19. So far, it’s working!
When we began building our first business years ago, we had to be “creative”. We didn’t have office space or computers so [...]

As you view the YouTube video tour of the new Lion Launch Pad, understand that everything about it was designed and chosen very carefully. We searched for over six months to find the right location, equidistant from Schreyers, Smeal, IST and Engineering for easy access by students and their advising faculty. We found this [...]