Campus Entrepreneurship

Our friends over at StudentBusinesses.com have started a new, weekly feature on their blog — a column profiling some of the great businesses and entrepreneurs that they have as part of their site. Below is an excerpt from their inaugural column. It features two new ventures, ThinkGum LLC and EasyBib.
Founded by a PhD candidate at [...]

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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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A few months ago I came across a company called FantasyCongress.com. They have taken the idea of fantasy sports and applied it to politics. Looks pretty cool. It turns out, the founders came up with the idea when they were in school at Claremont McKenna College in California studying politics. From their site,
Andrew was obsessed [...]

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Quite simply, there is almost unlimited opportunity for entrepreneurship on campus. That is one of the reasons that we are seeing more and more campus entrepreneurs. From loans and housing to food and clothing, campus entrepreneurs have entered many of these markets.
The Global Higher Ed blog has a fascinating posting that explains that the campus [...]

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Mizzou Tiger Cary Silverman has experienced his fair share of ups and downs in launching GradeGenie.com. The goal of the site is to provide an ‘easy way to share class notes, study guides, and other useful class information.’ Seems to make [...]

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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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I read this post, ‘Banking off the Election: Entrepreneurs Get Creative,’ over at the WSJ’s Independent Street Blog. Its about companies producing ‘election’ specific products to try to grow. While the post focuses on high tech offerings, campus entrepreneurs have made T-Shirts, thrown parties, and formed firms in order to exploit events — from homecoming [...]

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I found the pitch for MyFilmU.com over at Vator.tv. It is pretty interesting. It appears the company takes scripts/pitches from students at various schools. Then picks some to produce. Here is a sample of an upcoming show at Montana State University — Textbook. From their about us page.
Founded in May 2006, MyFilmU.com is an online [...]

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I received an email last week from a PR firm representing CollegeTonight.com. I don’t know the site, but it was started by two Emory students. From the email:
What does it take to start a business while in college? While many students are juggling social lives, parties, papers and exams (and not always in the right [...]

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