A few days ago, I wrote a post that generated a bit of very insightful, relevant discussion to this ongoing push towards innovation, community, and entrpreneurship within IST and the greater Penn State area. I'd like to talk about what has been accomplished. 1. Several Penn State companies have launched within the past few years and are on their way to being successful. 2. In the last year, the formal entrepreneurial ...

The Social Media Meets E-Ship, which was originally advertised as a BBQ, took place at the Indian Pavilion in downtown State College this evening. Our staff meteorologist, Daehee Park, had predicted a thunderstorm earlier this week and moved the BBQ indoors (it was actually quite nice outside throughout our entire dinner). Although the event was moved inside, the food was absolutely delicious, and the company ...

The Lion Launch Pad website is back, after being thrown to the side for a couple months following the breakup with The Blue Line. Although the new website no longer offers dynamic content, it is much better structured and cleaner than the previous one built on the Wild Apricot content management system. Lion Launch Pad is an independent business accelerator that helps PSU undergraduates get up and running with ...

Several Penn Staters involved in entrepreneurship met this afternoon for a magazine photo shoot. Paul Horn (Class of '04), the Fuzr guys--Matt Slocum (Senior, IST), Eric Kirse (Senior, IST), Jordan Shelley (Senior, Comp Sci)--and I were present. I asked Charlie DuBois to snap a quick photo on the side with my own camera as the professional photographer was getting prepared. Paul Horn is currently working in sales at Sun ...

Hello fellow IST and SRA junkies, I hope you're all doing well on this wonderful April afternoon. I know many of you have probably heard the term "social graph" tossed around. An Exeter-alum, Harvard drop-out popularized the term, although who's to say who actually came up with it? You might know him, his friends call him Zuck, a bit more than four years ago, he started a small social website ...

One of our very own is running in the Final 8 on an entrepreneurship competition website called IdeaBlob. Matt Allison (Senior, Economics with minor in Engineering Entrepreneurship) has come up with a way to improve exercise at home. He suggests a personal trainer device that syncs up with a social networking website. Matt describes his product by introducing the pain in the market, Individuals begin fitness programs each year, ...

I briefly mentioned Drizzoo in an earlier post where I noticed that the lead developer for the company was an IST graduate. Drizzoo seems to be in private alpha because the search results return only jobs and more jobs but nothing about an available product. I was immediately intrigued to find out more about this instance of entrepreneurship in the College of iST, so I emailed Scott Ayres ...