Campus Entrepreneurship

I recently noticed that Sean Combs (P Diddy, Puffy, etc.) was a campus entrepreneur  when he attended Howard University in DC. I thought I saw it while checking out StartupNation.com’s new Dorm Room Based 50 rankings (entry open until 3/15).  Some cool background from the wikipedia entry on Sean Combs;
While enrolled at Howard University, he [...]

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Just noticed that the Big Idea with Donny Deutsch is having an elevator pitch show tonite (28 Feb). No doubt it will play again multiple times (probably over the weekend). Here is the elevator pitch section of the show’s site.
Calling all entrepreneurs! If you’re looking for an angel investor, our new segment “Elevator Pitch” could [...]

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  Last week, while traveling, I had the opportunity to read John Steele Gordon’s, An Empire of Wealth. The book is a sweeping economic history of the US, from pre-colonial times through the internet. Really a great read.
Turns out the entire petroleum industry was created by a group of campus entrepreneurs in [...]

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According to the Independent Street Blog over at the WSJ, high-def channel MOJO has been airing a reality show, called Startup Junkies, about a Seattle tech firm raising VC funds. While most new ventures never go after or receive VC, my hunch is there is a lot to learn from watching the process. I don’t [...]

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This week is the 2nd Annual National Entrepreneurship Week in America. It is a ‘celebration of the heritage of entrepreneurship in America and new opportunities for a new generation.’ There are activities going on around the country and countless opportunities to learn; many of them at universities and colleges. Here is a link to the [...]

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Mark Cuban has a great post on the regulation/management of college athletics (the NCAA). In it, Cuban questions the current model that defines college athletics and player development.
At some point, hopefully someone will spend the time to put together sports alliances completely outside traditional high school and college ruling bodies that will allow students to [...]

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I began researching the subject of campus entrepreneurship for two reasons; 1) entrepreneurs and their ideas (especially campus entrepreneurs) are fascinating and fun to learn about and 2) my belief (based on observed behavior of campus entrepreneurs) that the campus offers many assets and institutions that can be leveraged by entrepreneurs for advantage.

Some school [...]

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  Just received a notice about the Young Entrepreneurs Talent & Innovation Competition of the Americas. According to their website,
2008 the Young Americas Business Trust (YABT) will host the second edition of the Talent and Innovation Competition of the Americas (TIC Americas), an opportunity for young people worldwide to develop and present their business ideas [...]

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Received this email from a social venture campus entrepreneur, Dean Davastar:
I’m an MBA student myself at Mason and I’ve been running a social entrepreneurship firm for about two years and am about to officially finalize opening a branch at George Mason University. We started at UVA and we work towards global prosperity and multicultural understanding. [...]

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Just for fun, here is a little feature from Entrepreneur Magazine profiling Presidents that were also entrepreneurs, “George Washington built a whiskey distillery on his Mount Vernon property the year he left office. By 1799, Washington’s distillery was one of the largest in the country, producing 11,000 gallons of whiskey annually.”
Apparently Herbert Hoover (who took [...]

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