Last week I spoke to students at Villanova’s School of Business about the state of startups in Philadelphia. Villanova also has a program for entrepreneurial minded students called the Center for Innovation, Creativity, and Entreprenuership (ICE). Here’s a breif blurb: During our discussions, Dave also touched on a number of resources available to people in the…
So there’s a crazy amount of snow happening right now across PA, but I’ve braved the cold and drove from Philly to Univerity Park for a week of events at Penn State. Here’s what we have coming up: Coding Competition Team up with up to 2 friends. Bring a laptop (and power). Prizes: $100 gift…
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What is it? The Imagine Cup is the global student technology competition that encourages students to innovate with technology. Every year students from over 200+ countries submit their project to the competition. The best teams come to Seattle for the Imagine Cup World Finals to compete against other teams for the grand prize of $50,000…
In October, I wrote about how I would get started with programming, knowing what I do today. With this post, I wanted to explain how I got started in game devleopment and programming. This all ties into the latest promotion that Microsoft has for students. I’ve been pushing for the return of Dream.Build.Play, an XNA…
Nothing is worse than losing all of your hard work. I back up like a crazy person. Carbonite backs up all of my computer’s files offsite each night, and I have a dock that backs up all of the folders on my PC each night when I plug in. Now I’ve got my computer…
I’ve begun compiling a list of resources that I’ve gathered along the way, as I continue to learn more about the world of startups and venture capital. Let me know if there’s anything that you feel is missing from me, and I’d love to add it! Videos How to pitch to investors w/ 13 slides in…
That’s usually the first question I get asked, when working with folks who have not programmed before. This is immediately followed by “which language do I start with?” There is no right or wrong answer, but I can tell you what worked for me. Starting off I started with C#, using Microsoft’s XNA gaming framework…
Jennifer Marsman wrote a great post on her MSDN blog about the benefits of BizSpark and how to get started with the program. This step-by-step tutorial can help get you enrolled as well. Perks of the program: http://wootstudio.ca/startups/bizspark.aspx Windows 10 developer accounts (Xbox, Windows) Visual Studio Ultimate licenses Windows licenses (multiple versions) Office 365 developer account…
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