Campus Entrepreneurship

In a section called tool kit, NY Times writer Paul Brown offer’s Fortune Magazine’s findings on where the right place to learn entrepreneurship is. From undergrad and grad to online and executive ed; the article lays out some programs to think about. Nowhere in the article does it actually look at the broader campus [...]

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This post over at Feld Thoughts gives great insights into the use of social networks and music consumption. Moreover, the focus group took place at U of Michigan (I am an alumn).  Here are five insights from the blog post,

I asked how many of them used other social networks, or similar things, Flickr, Twitter, etc..  [...]

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An article in the NY Times about PayPal founder and restless millionaire Max Levchin has gotten lots of coverage. Richard Florida has it over on his blog, multiple articles/posts at WSJ  (including the wealth blog and Wendy Bounds). From the longer piece, at the WSJ, related to story of the Nantucket Nectar founders (who met [...]

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With Microsoft buying a piece of Facebook last week, the valuation was set at $15 billion. Not bad for a student entrepreneur who viewed his  campus an an ecosystem and as a market to launch his business. Zuckerberg is hot and keeps getting hotter, but it remains to be seen if he can reach the [...]

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I recently highlighted the site vator.tv –where entrepreneurs pitch their venture’s with video and there are niche competitions. Here is another online site, Ideablob.com, offering contests for business ideas. Found this via Dane Carlson’s blog. The original piece is from BusinessWeek. BTW, Ideablob.com is ‘inspired by Advanta’ — a commercial financial firm that offers lots [...]

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This e-commerce contest is put on by Art Technology Group (Nasdaq: ARTQ), a maker of a suite of e-commerce software. The winner gets 50K in cash and the ‘people’s choice’ winner gets 10K. Most businesses in the US launch with less than 1oK, btw.
“The ATG e-Commerce Ingenuity Business Plan Competition is open to individuals or [...]

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A piece in today’s WSJ presents a great new opportunity for campus entrepreneurs. Writer Ann Zimmerman describes a new college sporting activity: The National Collegiate Bass Fishing Championship. This years event featured 83 two-person teams drawn from college fishing clubs across the country. Don’t think there is much $$ in fishing? Turns out that there [...]

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Fraser Doherty, an 18 year old Scottish dude, who was attending Strathclyde University, is growing a big business with his Super Jams, a healthy, new spin on jams (I don’t know the difference between jelly and jam). Here is the story from the Daily Record. He has scored a big distribution with the Tesco supermarket [...]

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Off campus sellers see the campus as a niche, those who are on campus know there are a lotta ways to segment –sports fans, greek members, pre-law, pre-med, working students, dorm vs. off-campus dwellers, part-time students, commuters, etc.
Kim T. Gordon has a column at Entrepreneur.com, “A Niche to Grow,” that gets into the idea of [...]

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According to the USA Today, “College Prices, Borrowing Up“. This means that more students may become entrepreneurs as making $7 an hour at a copy, coffee, or book shop makes a smaller dent in tuition. Alternatively, for those students it means opportunity — because there is pain. Pain for students, parents, others involved in higher [...]

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