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Improving Your College Biz One Step At A Time

College Startup:
If your business has been up and running for quite a while and you’ve been setting your sights on spreading more of your business wings, there is always something to tweak and improve. A few improvements are in order! I have here a few things you may want to consider.
* If you haven’t a […]

Brewing Up A Class Act

The Australian:
A business built on beer seems like the perfect scenario for a couple of fun-loving university students.
And so it is proving for Valjean Boynton and Campbell King, final-year RMIT University entrepreneurship students. Their business, Kegs on Legs, specialises in party keg hire and delivery to a thirsty Melbourne market.
“We have a passion for business […]

Biz Idea: Dorm Room Movers

Dorm Room Biz:
Alright guys, here is a quick and simple business idea to get you started on the right track when you get back to school and are ready to make some money!
Every year, thousands of new students and old students return to the dorm rooms on their college campus.
This usually means that besides the […]

Dorm-Room Bizs That Made It Big

College Startup:
Your laptop is your shop. You store your inventory in your dorm room. You cooked up your idea in your backyard. Or the basement.
It’s a tiny endeavor, yes. You may not know where it’ll end up when college is done. Not for sure, anyway.
But students like you became Silicon Valley’s most unassailable businessmen.
Pursuing business […]

Is College Worth It For Entrepreneurs?

US News:
There’s no law saying you have to go to college to start a business.
There’s also a carrot and a stick that might lead entrepreneurial minded members of Generation Y to want to skip college. The stick is that hiring prospects might be grimmer than they thought.
The carrot? All the examples of wildly successful entrepreneurs […]

From Campus To Startup

Gazette.net:
Say you’re in China and come upon a road sign in Chinese. The problem? You don’t speak Chinese. The solution: your cell phone.
That’s the idea behind new software being developed by David Doermann, a researcher at the University of Maryland, College Park, and part-time entrepreneur. Doermann is among the cadre of University of Maryland scientists […]

College Is Good Resource For Small-Biz Owners

Augusta Chronicle:
When school is in session, it can be good news for a business owner. Colleges and universities are a superb resource for finding part-time workers and for professional development and networking.
How you can work together with local colleges to help build your company and expand your expertise:
BUSINESS CONSULTING: Many business school departments actively work […]

Entrepreneur Started Biz in College

Inc.:
Alex Algard is a true entrepreneur. His companies – WhitePages.com and CarDomain.com – are born from his passions. Both are thriving businesses in Seattle. Both survived the dotcom bust – no small feat!
As a Stanford University graduate student, Algard was frustrated by his inability to track down an old friend: he wasted time on Internet […]

Texting for College Students’ Cash

eMarketer:
When it comes to money, the perception of the starving college student applies less and less.
According to findings in the “American Freshmen: Forty-Year Trends 1966–2006″ report from the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, entering freshmen in 2005 “came from households with a parental median income of $74,000, […]