Campus Entrepreneurship

Just received a news an update that the Edson Student Entrepreneur Initiative at ASU has awarded another round of seed financing to student entrepreneurs on campus. According to the East Valley Tribune,
Sixteen fledgling businesses operated by Arizona State University students have received a total of $200,000 in grants from the Edson Student Entrepreneur Initiative to [...]

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The $500,000 Global Security Challenge is back for another year after a successful events the last two years. While this is clearly a niche competition, the market it explores is huge and very important to people with a lot of money (the defense/security establishment).
From the competition’s website:
We seek to uncover the creative capabilities of innovators [...]

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I think this is the first time I have seen a team of Executive MBA Students win a business plan competition. According to a report on VUCast (Vanderbilt’s University Network), a team of executive MBA students from the Owen Graduate School of Management, won the Jungle Business Plan Challenge.
Check out the members of this team [...]

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Next Saturday (April 26th) I will be attending the finals of the Mid-Atlantic Business Plan Competition. The event is put on by the MIT Enterprise Forum of Washington-Baltimore and Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business. This competition is open to students at any university or college in DC, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and Delaware. (Pretty interesting [...]

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Next Saturday (April 26th) I will be attending the finals of the Mid-Atlantic Business Plan Competition. The event is put on by the MIT Enterprise Forum of Washington-Baltimore and Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business. This competition is open to students at any university or college in DC, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and Delaware. (Pretty interesting [...]

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Found this really cool article by Albert Park over at Xconomy.com in which he (an MIT student) goes over and observes the entrepreneurial culture at local rival Harvard. When I think of Harvard entrepreneurs I think of Gates and Zuckerberg.
Parks does kind of a mini-ethnography and lays out some of the driving institutions in Harvard’s [...]

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Just a few business plan competition updates that have come in to the mailbox the last few days…
People love reading about QCUE, which just buzzed through the Rice Competition/FSB Competition. BTW, it offered $675K in cash and prizes. From the story on QCUE at CNN Money; “Kahn’s startup, called qcue, hopes to slash that [...]

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Just read an interesting story by Kimberly Cornuelle covering BU’s Institute for Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization (ITEC) competition. In this competition, there will be real time voting for finalists by audience members. While it doesn’t appear that these votes are not counted in a specific way, according to the article, the judges will take audience [...]

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I was lucky enough to work in Dayton a few months back with the Creative Class Group. They have some great people there and some great universities. Today I found out about a really cool student venture that won the University of Dayton’s Business Plan Competition.
Salud del Sol, an innovative new business from a team [...]

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When it comes to bplan comps, we almost always hear about the winners. This is good old selection bias. Tiffany Petrosino over at the Yale Daily News has a great piece on some Yale entrepreneurs who lost in the Yale Entrepreneurial Society Competition.
After losing in the competition,
Robert Henehan ’10 and Vincent McPhillip ’10 did not [...]

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