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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Found this story (h/t Vator.tv) about CrushTV.com  — an online campus video network with news, sports, lifestyle, classes, etc. from various California schools. (Of course, as a media company targeting undergrads, it has a ‘hotties’ section called ‘campus crush’). From the story at Vator.tv:

What’s the difference between Facebook and CrushTV, other than about 60 million [...]

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According to Del Jones at the USA Today;

Billionaires are getting younger. Forbes magazine released its list of the world’s mega-rich Wednesday and said Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, 23, became the youngest ever self-made billionaire.
Zuckerberg, born during the Ronald Reagan presidency, is worth $1.5 billion four years after launching the social-networking site and the third-youngest to [...]

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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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Interesting list that I found at this blog = Dulcenegosyante.com. Looks like a lot are/were campus entrepreneurs. I will have to do some research.
Here are 4-9.
4. Chad Hurley [ Youtube ] 30 years old | $85M
5. Angelo Sotira [ Deviant ART ] 26 years old | $75M
6. John Vechey [ PopCap Games ] 28 years [...]

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I just blogged about why college is so expensive, well here is a startup attempting to help you make the most of it: TheCollegeFreeway.com. I found this in a Springwise newsletter from a few weeks back. It is a new social networking, Facebook integrated site that intends to serve as an academic resource exchange. According [...]

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Great article passed along to me by a colleague, Jill Rough, at George Mason University. This piece, from Jeffrey M. O’Brien of Fortune, explores the ‘PayPal Mafia’ (the founders and early funders of PayPal) and their exploits. As you can see, Stanford and University of Illinois continue to play a central role in their activities. [...]

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This post over at Feld Thoughts gives great insights into the use of social networks and music consumption. Moreover, the focus group took place at U of Michigan (I am an alumn).  Here are five insights from the blog post,

I asked how many of them used other social networks, or similar things, Flickr, Twitter, etc..  [...]

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With Microsoft buying a piece of Facebook last week, the valuation was set at $15 billion. Not bad for a student entrepreneur who viewed his  campus an an ecosystem and as a market to launch his business. Zuckerberg is hot and keeps getting hotter, but it remains to be seen if he can reach the [...]

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This is from Rob Walker at the NY Times Magazine a few weeks back. A story on how JP Morgan Chase is using facebook in order to get student customers for its credit cards. Their +1 program offers credit course (which you get ‘karma’ points for taking) and ‘karma’ points for paying on time. Moreover, [...]

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