I recently received the email below from Purdue student Alexandra Gagliano who followed it up with a phone call. BTW, noting her major, I applaud her for practicing what I’m certain her classes preach. I promised her I would spread the word about InternView and thus this blog entry. According to their web site,
Developed by [...]

In the increasingly common of the world according to digital, it is possible and indeed prudent to use hardware as software. This is the central idea behind Hardware as a Service (HaaS). It doesn’t matter what the hardware is, with the proper “middleware,” an organization can run whatever software they desire on it using their [...]

Today in my ENTR200 classes Ustream.tv was one of the two 5-minute presentation companies. The 0900 class presentation team thought it to be disruptive and would invest in it; the noon class thought it was a glorified YouTube [my words]. I got home to find the following post on today’s TechCrunch:
“For those of you [...]

The Indiana Economic Development Corporation (IEDC) , the Indiana Venture Center and Techpoint are teaming up to offer the second annual Indiana Collegiate Entrepreneur Bootcamp on Thursday March 20, 2008. They are bringing together an outstanding team of successful Indiana entrepreneurs, angel investors and venture capitalists to share their expertise and experience in building high [...]

A group of Purdue students are in the Soy Competition mentioned in this blog a couple of days ago. They have a soy-based clay pigeon of the type used in shooting trap and would like readers of this blog to help them in deciding on a name for their entry. Thus the poll link. [...]

TechCrunch recently ran a blurb on belt tightening by corporations due to the slowing down of the US economy. This is what they had to say:
The outlook for corporate IT spending is gloomy, with growth expected to slow from 7 percent last year to 4 percent this year. The $500 billion that U.S. corporations [...]

One of my colleagues in crime, Stroh Brann, who teaches both ENTR200 and 201 with me @ Purdue University, has suggested the following is worthy of 18:45 of your time; I agree. Read the short intro below first, then watch the video and comment. Hank
Rice University professor Richard Baraniuk has a giant vision: to create [...]

Indiana Soybean Farmers Looking for the Next Big Thing in Soy
Indiana soybean farmers - through their soybean checkoff - are looking for a few good soy products.
The Indiana Soybean Alliance (ISA) launched the INVEST - Indiana New Ventures and Enterprises in Soy Technology - program earlier this month to seek individuals and small businesses [...]

This past Wednesday our son Justin called to report in. Justin owns and operates a successful excavating business in South Seattle, operating out of the Auburn/Puyallup [named after a local Indian tribe] area. In this vicinity, coffee drive-throughs are very common. Seems he had just visited one in the Auburn area named  Moka Girls. [...]