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I can’t believe someone on the PSU domain is spamming me with an affiliate offer. I received this email from the President of “PSU Free Student Offers.” This character named Samantha Volley is obviously fake, and I confirmed it because the name is not in the Penn State Directory or even Facebook.
Dear Penn State Student:
You [...]

Earlier this month, on February 6th, I posed a question about what’s happening with the Lion Launch Pad here at Penn State University. A couple of representatives quickly responded to my blog post saying that everything was still on track. Since then, there has been some drama on the blogosphere and a couple of major [...]

Check out the new Maiselog by Matt Maisel. This is the first blog that I’ve seen so far arise out of the Security & Risk Analysis program at Penn State. I hope that he continues to write posts like the recent one on the i2 Analyst Notebook software.
However, one horrible mistake on the Maiselog is, [...]

Update: Lion Launch Pad has been rebranded as The Blue Line, and their website is located at http://www.bluelinenetworks.com. This new site could use some basic SEO because it’s practically invisible to the search engines.
What happened to the open and driven atmosphere that first attracted me to the Lion Launch Pad? The blog is dormant, the [...]

A couple of months ago, I had a great business idea that would leverage the tens of thousands of students here at Penn State University. I was confident about its success so I took the idea to the Lion Launch Pad (Penn State’s student business incubator) to apply for funding and business assistance.
Along the way, [...]

Have you ever tried to search for bloggers from your own school? I’ve tried it using Google, Facebook profiles, Facebook groups and Technorati. But the results were limited in each case. Most bloggers don’t even mention what schools they go to, so search engines don’t pick up on keywords. Meanwhile, blogger groups on Facebook are [...]

Network with other Facebook developers at Penn State. Meet a programmer who can create your dream Facebook application. Pitch your product idea and get valuable feedback from people with the business or technical know-how.
The Facebook Developer Garage is coming to our campus in March at the Lion Launch Pad. The actual date will be announced [...]

The following is an email I received after writing the post about dropping out of college to pursue my business. I thought that I would share this with you because it helped put me back on track with academics.
Daehee,
I came across your website from a link to [...]

Today, we have Cisco Systems visiting us to see what our college is all about. This is also an opportunity for IST students to learn how Cisco manages to recover from extreme disasters such as Hurricane Katrina. Cisco’s Network Emergency Response Vehicle (NERV) is currently parked at the west end of the IST Building. The [...]

Rob Shedd just launched the PSU Startups blog. The PSU Startups blog is complementary to the Lion Launch Pad initiative, and it’s supposed to serve as a communication medium for Penn State students interested in entrepreneurship. Rob has invited numerous people involved with entrepreneurship to write as guest bloggers, including me, so it should be [...]