Campus Entrepreneurship

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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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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While I do not visit vator.tv on a daily basis, I do like what they are doing and check it out a couple of times a week. Props to Bambi Francisco, the founder and CEO of Vator.tv. They have a longish (13 odd min) interview with MC Hammer (my coverage of his new venture [...]

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Okay, so this is a total pr piece, but these are some fascinating businesses (both Vator.tv and Crushpad).
Here is the video for crushpad and here is from the press release,
Crushpad, the urban winery that is democratizing wine making, today announced that it has been selected the winner of the 2007 Wine 2.0 Business Plan Competition [...]

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I recently highlighted the site vator.tv –where entrepreneurs pitch their venture’s with video and there are niche competitions. Here is another online site, Ideablob.com, offering contests for business ideas. Found this via Dane Carlson’s blog. The original piece is from BusinessWeek. BTW, Ideablob.com is ‘inspired by Advanta’ — a commercial financial firm that offers lots [...]

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