Campus Entrepreneurship

I was not able to post anything over the weekend because life got in the way. You see, in addition to blogging as a component of my PhD, I am also a launching a new business and am married with a young child.
My wife works full time as an ER doctor and was working on [...]

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The tragedy at Northern Illinois University and others like it (Virginia Tech, etc.) have made it clear there is a problem on campuses: security. (I just heard on tv there have been 4 shootings this week — 3 were HS — that have left 10 dead students)
When there is a problem that society feels strongly [...]

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Tim Berry has an interesting post on deciding what business to start. There is even a nice, short video (worth watching) on SBTV.com in which he is interviewed on this question of choosing a business. Below is a snippet from the post on how to decide on a business:

Look in the mirror. A good [...]

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Would Mark Zuckerberg have created Facebook if he had spent his freshman year in Barcelona instead of on campus in Cambridge?
According to an article by Anjali Athavely of the WSJ, more and more freshman are beginning to go abroad. As one who spent my Jr. year abroad (in Osaka, Japan) and lived with a [...]

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From The Cheap Revolution blog, 20 great entrepreneurial quotes. Here are a couple from their post.
#4: The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning - to create a product or service to make the world a better place - Guy Kawasaki, entrepreneur, investor, author
#14: An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little [...]

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