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Resources @ PSU for your new product or startup idea

Resources @ PSU for your new product or startup idea. Part of….. IST Startup Week Tuesday, April 10, 2012 4:15 - 5:30 p.m. 110 IST Liz Kisenwether exk13@psu.edu 863-1531 Asst. Prof. - Engineering Design Co-Director - Lion Launch Pad Director - Intercollege Minor in Entrepreneurship.

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Resources @ PSU for your new product or startup idea

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  1. Resources @ PSU for your new product or startup idea Part of….. IST Startup Week Tuesday, April 10, 2012 4:15 - 5:30 p.m. 110 IST Liz Kisenwether exk13@psu.edu 863-1531 Asst. Prof. - Engineering Design Co-Director - Lion Launch Pad Director - Intercollege Minor in Entrepreneurship

  2. I have a great new product idea, but how do I get started?!? Confused_guy.jpg www.adwaccountants.com

  3. Student Organizations Courses & seminars Funding + Mentoring You and your idea Competitions with prize $$ On-line resources Help getting ideas built Help getting ideas coded the-future.jpg; www.lookingforpurpose.com

  4. PSU programs and courses… • E-SHIP Minor [18 credit] • http://www.sedtapp.psu.edu/entrepreneurship/ • Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship (HESE) certificate • http://www.sedtapp.psu.edu/humanitarian • Two-course sequence in Entrepreneurship [6 credits]: • MGMT/IST/ENGR425 - New Venture Creation • MGMT/IST/ENGR426 - Invention Commercialization

  5. …..and more courses… College of Arts and Architecture: ART101 - Web design ART203 - The Art of Web Design College of Communications: COMM493 – Entrepreneurship in the Information Age College of Engineering: ENGR 312 - Sustainable Energy Entrepreneurship ENGR497K - Social Entrepreneurship

  6. …..and more courses… College of Information Science and Technology: IST 402 – Google Online Marketing Challenge College of Health and Human Development: HRIM 497F – Entrepreneurship in the Hospitality Industry Smeal College of Business: MGMT497A - Start-Up Company MGMT 431 – Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management

  7. …and seminars. Penn State Small Business Development Center (SBDC) • Free!The First Step of Starting a Business • Next session: May 1, 2012 • http://sbdc.psu.edu/the-first-step.htm

  8. Student Organizations • Innoblue.org • Nittany Entrepreneurs

  9. Funding + Mentoring • Lion Launch Pad www.lionlp.com • PSU Sparkplug www.thesparkplug.net

  10. Competitions with prize $$ • Fall: Ag. Sci Springboard Competition • $5000 1st place, $1000 2nd place • http://agsci.psu.edu/entrepreneur/competitions/springboard • Spring: Smeal Idea Pitch Competition • $2000 1st place, $1000 2nd place, $500 3rd place • http://ideapitch.smeal.psu.edu/

  11. Help getting ideas built • Learning Factory • www.lf.psu.edu • CEDE - Center for Engineering Design and Entrepreneurship • www.cede.psu.edu • RepRap Users Group - Open-source 3D Printing • https://sites.google.com/a/psu.edu/penn-state-reprap

  12. Help getting ideas coded • Innoblue - www.innoblue.org • IST and CSE (Computer Science and Engineering) students

  13. On-line resources • Teach yourself: http://lynda.psu.com • Guidance from leading entrepreneurs: www.ecorner.stanford.edu • PA Open for Business:http://www.paopenforbusiness.state.pa.us

  14. …more on-line resources • Code Academy - free! • http://www.codeacademy.com • MIT Open Course Ware - free! • http://ocw.mit.com

  15. Looking ahead…. • Intercollege Minor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation

  16. Q&A / Discussions

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