Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2009

Brett Hurt, Wharton alum and co-founder and CEO of customer review management service Bazaarvoice, has been named an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2009 Winner, the world’s most prestigious business award for entrepreneurs. Read more about Hurt here.

Winning Innovation

Christian Terwiesch and Karl Ulrich, Operations and Information Management professors at The Wharton School, are co-authors of new book Innovation Tournaments, a "great read for anyone who is looking to develop a process to manage innovation... filled with real-world case studies and examples of approaches that will be beneficial to any practitioners who have the task of driving successful innovation..." Find out more here.

Rapping About Business

RJMetrics is a Business Intelligence Dashboard for database-driven websites used by professionals to monitor key business metrics and trends. RJMetrics is also an aspiring rap duo. The group recently released a Business Intelligence Rap Video which also contains advice for tech startups. Check it out here.

Entrepreneur offers Build a Website column

Entrepreneur Magazine has just added a Build a Website column, which focuses on Web site management, usability and design. Check out the first topic "Start a Blog For Your Business" in the May issue here.

Super Angel Status

Alumni venture capital firm First Round Capital has become the country's most active seed-stage investor, according to BusinessWeek. Among other "super angels" such as Baseline Ventures and Felicis Ventures, First Round is funding startups and entrepreneurs at a time when large VC firms are holding back. Read more here.

Reinvention Success

Recently featured on Inc., Flocabulary, a study-guide publisher that aimed to teach history through hip-hop, had a great idea, but no business. Read their story about how UPenn graduate Harrison and Tufts graduate Rappaport reinvented themselves, began to grow, and now have their study-guides used in 100 school districts.

"Get It Started!"

This month's stories focus on the Wharton Business Plan Competition, with a feature on winner NIR Diagnostics and a video on the Venture Finals 2009, and an interview with the co-authors, Wharton professor of innovation and entrepreneurship Ian MacMillan and Columbia Business School professor Rita Gunther McGrath, of their new book Discovery-Driven Growth: A Breakthrough Process to Reduce Risk and Seize Opportunity. Check out the newsletter here.