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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Our friends over at StudentBusinesses.com have started a new, weekly feature on their blog — a column profiling some of the great businesses and entrepreneurs that they have as part of their site. Below is an excerpt from their inaugural column. It features two new ventures, ThinkGum LLC and EasyBib.
Founded by a PhD candidate at [...]

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Next Saturday (April 26th) I will be attending the finals of the Mid-Atlantic Business Plan Competition. The event is put on by the MIT Enterprise Forum of Washington-Baltimore and Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business. This competition is open to students at any university or college in DC, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and Delaware. (Pretty interesting [...]

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Next Saturday (April 26th) I will be attending the finals of the Mid-Atlantic Business Plan Competition. The event is put on by the MIT Enterprise Forum of Washington-Baltimore and Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business. This competition is open to students at any university or college in DC, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and Delaware. (Pretty interesting [...]

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I received a nice email from Brian H. recently with a link to an article in the Coloradoan concerning startups and the recession. The article is generally positive and full of ‘experts’ saying startups can thrive in lean times.
From the piece by Cari Merrill,
“Economic conditions are the important part of entrepreneurial endeavors. As an [...]

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Found this over at MSNBC. Quite an eclectic list; including PT Barnum and Pope Sixtus VI. Here is their description of number 3 Ben Franklin.
3.  Benjamin Franklin. In a real sense, Franklin was America’s first entrepreneur. Unlike other of the Founding Fathers — the hypermoral Washington, the prodigiously intellectual Jefferson — whose virtues and attainments are [...]

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Found this list of 2008 predictions at the Silicon Valley Blog. It includes predictions on lots of subjects (specific technologies, consumer markets, health care, etc.) from lots of outlets including vc firms, websites, and magazines.
Here are some direct links to lists…. EETimes.com list of tech predictions…. Macworld predictions….. PCWorld predictions.
Any predictions of your [...]

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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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