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 [...]

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 [...]

Penn State students are doing well on ideablob.com! Matt Allison’s Personal Trainer concept has been named a finalist for April. Matt is a senior majoring in Economics and minoring in Engineering Entrepreneurship.
More information on the concept is below – please visit ideablob.com and support Matt’s idea!
Personal Trainer on a portable touch screen device [...]

Aaron Fleishman, a Penn State senior majoring in Chemisty, won $10,000 from ideablob.com’s February contest for Mashavu.com. Mashavu’s concept is a cell-phone based system for disaster relief. Read more on Mashavu’s blog and on ideablob.com. Congratulations, Aaron & team!

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 [...]

I thought it’d be in the best interest of the PSU startup community, if we started getting some perspectives from past and present startups.
A lot of us have questions –’ how do I get started?’, ‘how do I know it’s a good idea,’ ‘ do i have to draft a business plan?’
I believe one of [...]

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 [...]