A great event for your calendars:
PSU Entrepreneurship Guest Lecture Series
Hosted by the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Smeal College of Business and the College of Engineering Norbert and Audrey Gaelen Entrepreneur Speaker Series
How Google Grew: 10 Good Moves In 10 Good Years
An intimate analysis of Google and its success, by a seasoned [...]

Unfortunately, the national level for Startup Weekend set the cutoff at 50 registered participants for there to be enough participants for the event to work as desired. Given the fact that registrations didn’t give us enough participants to hold the event, the event needed to be canceled.
All students who have registered will have refunds [...]

If you’re interested in attending Startup Weekend, but the registration cost was holding you back, thanks to Liz Kisenwether and the support of the Engineering Entrepreneurship minor program, you can now apply for a scholarship to cover the ticket cost.
Download the attached information and apply online here.
The form is very easy to complete, so submit [...]

DreamIt has compiled a video of quick interview segments with the founders from this past summer, along with clips (actually more like one or two words each…) from speakers at one of their events (presumably the big kickoff event at the start of the summer). It was interesting to hear some of the founders’ [...]

In early September, I heard of Awesome, Inc. Details are light, both through the company web site and other sources, but it appears to be a new seed fund accelerator. According to the web site, applications will be accepted starting January 1, 2009, and the program will run in Lexington, KY. SitePoint, [...]

With the start of October, we now only have 24 days until Startup Weekend begins in State College! Make sure to let us know that you’re coming through the Facebook event, forward the Facebook invitation to your friends, and purchase your ticket via Eventbrite!

For those student entrepreneurs with ventures (or concepts) that are interested in funding opportunities, consider the following information session held by the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA). NCIIA is an organization supporting collegiate entrepreneurship and has given grants to Penn State student launched ventures in the past, in particular, the Advanced E-Team [...]

Perhaps more than any other location outside of Silicon Valley, Boulder has transformed itself and has fostered a growing startup community. Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and other locations that aspire to become active entrepreneurial hotspots, would do well to follow much of Boulder’s lead.
In yet another innovative approach to attracting top notch talent and marketing the [...]

For those of you not following the growth of the entrepreneurship community in Philadelphia, ignitePhilly 2 was held this past Tuesday. There is a great summary here.
Based on that synopsis of the speakers’ presentations, it’s clear that there were a lot of great talks and ideas. Two particularly interesting speakers:
Steve Welch from DreamIt: [...]

The Daily Collegian covered David Adewumi’s Heekya venture earlier this week. The article provides a solid overview of Heekya and the site’s aims.
It was also good to see the first press mention of ISTBuilding.com. I’m looking forward to an invite to Heekya, so that I can try out what David & team have [...]