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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Nice article by Behance Network founder Scott Belsky of Harvard Business School. Its not often that we get first hand accounts from entrepreneurs like this article in the Harbus (the student weekly at Harvard Business School). There is a lot to learn from active campus entrepreneurs like Belsky. Here are some selections from his piece:
Soon [...]

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DC-based accelerator Launchbox Digital is hosting another online chat this week. From their email,

LaunchBox Digital will be hosting another online chat tomorrow, Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at 7 pm EDT.  Please join moderator Tom Des Jardins, founder and ex-CTO of Lightningcast, as he leads a discussion on start-up company valuations and investor due diligence.

To join [...]

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From Imperial College London:
The College-wide business plan competition, organised by Tanaka Business School and held on Thursday 13 March, provides both undergraduates and postgraduates with an opportunity to develop and present business ideas in a realistic environment.
The winning interdisciplinary team won the prestigious prize for their device called Tap Sprinkler, which focuses on providing quick [...]

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Great piece by Zachary A. Goldfarb in the Washington Post about Daylert, a venture created and launched by a campus entrepreneur at Virginia Tech. Moreover, its early activities appear to have made use of the campus as market model. The articles goes through the successes and struggles that the social networking firm/website has experienced.
From the [...]

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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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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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Came across this article in Entrepreneur Magazine while traveling and actually completed the exercise last night. (It took about 15 minutes, but I typed it up and formatted it). Jay Conrad Levinson and Jeannie Levinson suggest 7 questions to answer that will provide you with a great guerilla marketing plan. While I don’t know if [...]

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Last week, while traveling, I received an email from Felix Chan. Felix wrote,
“I am currently a Michigan dropout. I am starting a new company called www.skoogO.com. It is an information network for students to connect with others through their school, majors, courses, interests, etc.”
While I haven’t had time to look through Felix’s site, I will [...]

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