Campus Entrepreneurship

Pretty interesting piece in today’s WSJ by Riva Richmond about successful and unsuccessful Facebook applications. At this point, Zuckerberg and Facebook are the kingpins of the campus entrepreneur space. While Gates, Brin, Dell, Smith, and others have far more money and reach, Zuck/Fbook are as hot as a pistol.
Its amazing how many other businesses have [...]

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Ben Worthen of the WSJ offers an interesting post on tech entrepreneurship, age, and education. Worthen reports on a recent Kauffman Foundation survey that finds, contrary to popular views, most enginnering & tech firms are founded by older workers. (the report is titled Education & Tech Entrepreneurship). From the post:
Instead, the average tech entrepreneur was [...]

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The deadline to apply for the UC Davis Green Tech Entrepreneurship Academy has been extended to May 16th. The Academy is for science and technology doctoral students, post-docs, and research faculty. The event will take place over a week in July in Lake Tahoe, NV.
The keynote speaker for the event is going to Armory Lovins. [...]

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When I first began thinking about building my new venture, I knew I would need a basic content management system. Two open source tools were recommended by various people — Joomla and Drupal.
We ended up going with Joomla (the dev should be done soon), but I just learned today that Drupal was created by Dries [...]

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Administrators and Professors are still exhibiting a wide variety of reactions to the growth in campus entrepreneurship. Andrzej Zwaniecki of America.gov wrote a nice piece on the rise of entrepreneurship on US campuses.
The piece offers some interesting insights and coverage of the growth of entrepreneurship and institutions on MITs campus over the past decade [...]

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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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Springwise is featuring a story on a Dutch company that uses students as ‘cell phone’ instructors for older users. They teach txt, bluetooth, voice mail management etc.. The company, Bellendoejezo, has been hired by banks, law firms, and an energy company.
Think of how much apparently basic phone/blackberry/iphone etc. knowledge that students have. Think about how [...]

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Thats what the headline in the WaPost screamed. Of course I was going to read this article.Turns out the story is about the Mid-Atlantic Business Plan Competition, a business plan contest in my home region. From the WaPo story,
Joseph Zuccaro, 47, strutted around a Northern Virginia restaurant showing off his ultimate networking tool: a [...]

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Big prizes in this contest. The Minnesota Cup — a business plan competition in the land of 10K lakes  has doubled its prizes. Winners gets 50K in cash! From the Pioneer Press:
The Minnesota Cup, a statewide contest that promotes innovative business ideas, has doubled the prize money it will award its top three winners this [...]

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Found this cool campus entrepreneur over at Vator.tv. HubDub.com is a site that lets you try to predict the news. Fun, casual gaming involving news forecasting. Great video from the AP on the company. The CEO is Nigel Eccles and he appears to be working with the Edinburgh Technology Transfer Centre.

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