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Resources @ PSU for your new product or startup idea

Part of….. IST Startup WeekTuesday, April 10, 2012

4:15 - 5:30 p.m.110 IST

Liz Kisenwetherexk13@psu.edu 863-1531

Asst. Prof. - Engineering DesignCo-Director - Lion Launch Pad

Director - Intercollege Minor in Entrepreneurship

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I have a great new product idea, but how do I get started?!?

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Courses &seminars

On-line resources

Student Organizations

Competitionswith prize $$

Funding +Mentoring

Help gettingideas built

Help gettingideas coded

You and youridea

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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

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…..and more courses…

College of Arts and Architecture:ART101 - Web designART203 - 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

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…..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

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…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

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Student Organizations

• Innoblue.org

• Nittany Entrepreneurs

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Funding + Mentoring

• Lion Launch Pad www.lionlp.com

• PSU Sparkplug www.thesparkplug.net

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Competitions with prize $$

• Fall: Ag. Sci Springboard Competition– $5000 1st place, $1000 2nd place– http://agsci.psu.edu/entrepreneur/competitions/

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• Spring: Smeal Idea Pitch Competition– $2000 1st place, $1000 2nd place, $500 3rd place

– http://ideapitch.smeal.psu.edu/

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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

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Help getting ideas coded

• Innoblue - www.innoblue.org

• IST and CSE (Computer Science and Engineering) students

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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

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• Code Academy - free!– http://www.codeacademy.com

• MIT Open Course Ware - free!– http://ocw.mit.com

…more on-line resources

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Looking ahead….

• Intercollege Minor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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Q&A / Discussions