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 [...]

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, 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. [...]

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 [...]