Ernst & Young announced the 18 finalists for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2012 Award in the San Diego. 
Pet fish, nap rooms and doodle walls are popular office perks in San Francisco Bay Area startups, but a local restaurant rewards company is also fostering that kind of laid-back culture at its new Sorrento Valley headquarters. (video) 
Sometimes when an idea sparks, it starts a fire; other times an idea just blows away with the wind. 
Ernst & Young LLP announced the 27 semifinalists for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2012 Award in the San Diego region. 
The law firm Perkins Coie recently launched a user-friendly interactive website that enables entrepreneurs to generate the legal documents needed to form a Delaware "C" corporation, free of charge. 
Students and alumni from San Diego State University showcased products and learned about life as an entrepreneur at Entrepreneur Day on Tuesday. 
The 2012 independent judging panel to select the regional finalists and winners for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year award was announced Friday. The panel comprises local business leaders, including previous winners of the award, leading CEOs and private capital investors. 
Thousands of students, alumni and community members will walk through the "entrepreneurial village,” featuring more than 50 businesses, during San Diego State University’s Entrepreneur Day on March 13. 
Fed up with sky-high price tags on textbooks at university bookstores, Jonathan Simkin co-founded a discount textbook website called SwoopThat in his dorm at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, Calif. and then moved the company to other undesirable office locations: his parents’ house in Del Mar and then to a temporary space from a family friend in La Jolla. 
College students who have dreams of starting their own businesses can get a head start by taking part in a contest at San Diego State Univeristy. 