Campus Entrepreneurship

I had a great conversation with Travis May, one of the founders of StudentBusinesses.com. Travis is currently a junior at Harvard and has been involved with entrepreneurship since entering the school.
Travis and his parter, Vivek G. Ramaswamy, who graduated last June, discovered their shared interest in entrepreneurship while sitting on a bus in china during [...]

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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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There is always opportunity, if you look in the right places. Below is a great post on opportunity from Seth Godin (required reading for entrepreneurs — Idea Virus). Here is the post in full, from his blog;

So, there’s plenty of bad economic news floating around. From the price of oil to Wall Street to bailouts [...]

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There is no doubt that the campus is a great place to experiment with new products and services. From music and fashion to tech and movies, the campus is open and demands new things. Food is one area where this is true (check out Cereality). Business Week’s Kerry Miller has an interesting article on [...]

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