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
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?!?
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3. Student Organizations Courses & Funding + seminars Mentoring
You and
your
idea
Competitions
with prize $$
On-line
resources
Help getting
ideas built
Help getting
ideas coded
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4. PSU programs and courses…
E-SHIP Minor [18 credit]
Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship (HESE) certificate
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 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

8. Student Organizations
Innoblue.org
Nittany Entrepreneurs

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

10. Competitions with prize $$
Fall: Ag. Sci Springboard Competition
$5000 1st place, $1000 2nd place
Spring: Smeal Idea Pitch Competition
$2000 1st place, $1000 2nd place, $500 3rd place

11. Help getting ideas built
Learning Factory
CEDE - Center for Engineering Design and Entrepreneurship
RepRap Users Group - Open-source 3D Printing

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

13. On-line resources Teach yourself: http://lynda.psu.com
Guidance from leading entrepreneurs:
PA Open for Business:

14. …more on-line resources
Code Academy - free!
MIT Open Course Ware - free!

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

16. Q&A / Discussions