Campus Entrepreneurship

Colin Roche came up with the idea for a revolutionary new writing instrument while in Saturday detention during HS. Years later, while discussing the idea with a college buddy, they decided to launch the company: PenAgain. I saw him on The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch earlier this week. Pretty good story.
From the PenAgain website:
Colin [...]

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There seems to be a lot of chatter about facebook right now. Facebook was founded by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg. Last week while watching Charlie Rose interview Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, Wales went on and on about facebook and the sharpness of its founder. Then there is the recent NY Times article about Facebook going [...]

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An article from the Huntsville Times in ‘Bama highlights the performance of UA Huntsville participants in the inaugural Alabama Launchpad Initiative. It is sponsored by the Economic Development Partnership of Alabama and the six participating universities. Here is the competition website.
The participating schools were;

Alabama A&M University
Alabama State University
Auburn University
University of Alabama
University of Alabama at Birmingham
University [...]

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Skip Shuda (I don’t know who he is) has two posts on the 8 entrepreneurial types that he has discovered.
Here is the long post, here is the short post.
Here is the website for his business — Team and a Dream.

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From Tulane graduate Scott Himmel, Campusmenus.com. Pretty straightforward and useful in my opinion.

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An article from last summer at Inc. that outlines how extraordinary the growth in the study of entrepreneurship has become. It is based on a study done by The Johnson Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Indiana University.
From the piece,
As entrepreneurship continues to grow in popularity with college students, the nation’s entrepreneurial centers are responding [...]

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Stephen Grocer of the WSJ has a profile of PolicePrep.com over at StartupJournal.com. The trio who started the firm met while getting their MBA’s and made great use of the campus and their time in the program to plan their venture. From the piece,
“I started kicking around ideas with anyone,” Mr. Jessop says. “And one [...]

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Would you have invested or worked with this guy and his team?

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This May 19th-21st the 2007 Lunar Ventures Student Business Plan Competition was held at the Colorado School of Mines (in Golden, CO — home of Coors I believe). The goal of the competition is to encourage “students in business, engineering, and space to collaborate in creating business ventures related to space.” Here were the eligibility [...]

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Send emails from simple, printer like machines? From the Albany Biz Journal, “Celery LLC, was named the winner of the $100,000 business plan competition at the Summit in Tech Valley on Monday. The Troy, N.Y., company has created a system that allows people to send and receive e-mails using a regular printer rather than a [...]

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