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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Have you heard of Startup Weekend?
Here’s how the organizers describe it:
“Startup Weekend recruits a highly motivated group of developers, business managers, startup enthusiasts, marketing gurus, graphic artists and more to a 54 hour event that builds communities, companies and projects.”
The organizers have recently started taking suggestions for where to hold the next events. Sounds [...]

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: