Resource for Campus Entrepreneurs — Intuit’s Jump Up

Intuit, the maker of Quickbooks, has a great interest in supporting startups. Check out this community site, Jump Up, they are building and calling ‘the place to start a business.’ Of course, I happen to think a campus might be the place…. Found this while surfing over at Small Business Trends.

PLAN: Find Immigrant Grad Student, Launch Venture

The Kauffman Foundation recently sponsored research that found that 25% of tech firms launched in the US are launched by immigrants. What this means is all those Chinese, India, Taiwanese, South Korean, Russia, etc. grad students over in the sciences are researching some cool stuff. The report was authored by Annalee Saxenian (whose earlier research on immigrants in Silicon Valley inspired this new study) of UC Berkeley and Vivek Wadhwa of Duke University.

Start roaming the halls of the engineering departments looking for researchers and you just might have yourself the makings of a new high tech venture on campus.

Conducted by researchers at Duke University and the University of California, at Berkeley, the study is a follow-up to a report released in January that showed that in 25.3 percent of technology and engineering companies started in the United States from 1995 to 2005, at least one key founder was foreign-born. Nationwide, these immigrant-founded companies produced $52 billion in sales and employed 450,000 workers in 2005. The majority of these immigrant entrepreneurs came from India, United Kingdom, China, Taiwan, Japan and Germany.