Ahson Wardak blogged today about his thoughts around the LaunchBox Digital program in Washington, DC. This is the same seed stage “incubator” that Penn State’s David Adewumi & team participated in with their venture, Heekya. Ahson covers some of the major perks to one of these programs, including the mentorship, the connections, and [...]

DreamIt Ventures held its first Funding Day today. Tech Crunch provides a synopsis of the ventures which pitched. DreamIt is the Philadelphia-area seed fund program, similar to Y Combinator and TechStars, which ran for the first time this summer.
The comments posted on TechCrunch have been fairly harsh and critical of the DreamIt companies. [...]

From Penn State Live:

Harbaughs give $250,000 to create entrepreneurship lecture forum
Penn State alumnus and fund-raising volunteer Earl K. Harbaugh and his wife, Kay Harbaugh, have given $250,000 to create the Harbaugh Endowment for Entrepreneurship in the College of Agricultural Sciences. The endowment will fund the Harbaugh Entrepreneurship Forum, which will bring successful entrepreneur leaders to [...]

In July, Innovation Philadelphia, featured this profile of Steven Welch, one of the three founding partners of DreamIt Ventures, the seed fund now concluding its first season in Philly. Other profiles of area entrepreneurs are here.

Dr. Gerry Santoro recently filled me in on his section of IST 440W, the IST capstone class, which he will be teaching this fall. His section will be focused on entrepreneurship - the syllabus is already online here.
There have been 440W sections focused on entrepreneurship in past semesters, but the new approach that Dr. [...]

Just like the summer flying by, so is the time leading up to Startup Weekend in State College! We are now just two months from the event, taking place from October 24-26 in the IST Building’s Cybertorium. The official site is now up on StartupWeekend.com.
We now need everyone to start spreading the word, [...]

It’s hard to believe, but the summer is over and students are returning to classes once again in Happy Valley for the fall. Likewise, it’s time for me to return from my summer blogging vacation and get back to work. Even though this blog has been quiet for the last month or so, [...]

Dr. Robert Macy, professor of entrepreneurship in the Smeal College of Business, passed along information on a new course that he will be teaching this fall for the first time. The course will cover the business side of video games. Macy said, “There are classes across this and other campuses that cover art, [...]