1. 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.eduexk13@psu.edu 863-1531 Asst. Prof. - Engineering Design Co-Director - Lion Launch Pad Director - Intercollege Minor in Entrepreneurship

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

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

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

5. 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. 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. 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.htmhttp://sbdc.psu.edu/the-first-step.htm

8. 8 Student Organizations Innoblue.org Nittany Entrepreneurs

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

10. 10 Competitions with prize $$ Fall: Ag. Sci Springboard Competition –$5000 1st place, $1000 2nd place –http://agsci.psu.edu/entrepreneur/competitions/springboardhttp://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/http://ideapitch.smeal.psu.edu/

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

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

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

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

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

16. 16 Q&A / Discussions