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The Columbia Daily Tribune:
Corey Rimmel turned 21 last Sunday.
Instead of visiting local watering holes with his buddies for a celebratory first legal drink, Corey enjoyed milk and cookies at his newly opened business, Hot Box Cookies.
Corey and co-owners Adam Hendin and David Melnick have barely had a moment to celebrate anything recently. Hot Box Cookies, […]
TCU Daily Skiff:
The Neeley School of Business has a strong entrepreneurial background. It seems only natural, then, for the TCU Bookstore to have some competition from one bright business student.
Horned Frog entrepreneur Josh Dennis, who founded Frogbookstore.com, and a team of three, claims to offer 20 to 60 percent discounts off the Barnes & Noble […]
The New York Times:
Value-added junk hauling may sound like a questionable product to sell: it assumes that people will pay hundreds of dollars to get rid of ratty sofas and assorted flotsam in professional and socially conscious ways.
Its biggest selling points are friendly employees who presumably look more respectable than the local odd jobber, and […]
BusinessWeek:
Forget social networking.
The next big Web-based thing is going to be “knowledge sharing.”
So says Benjamin Wald, who dropped out of Babson College his sophomore year to start a business that capitalizes on this concept, with his fraternity brother, Dean “Tyler” Jenks, who also dropped out (he was in his senior year).
Knetwit, which launched about a […]
Japan Times:
Jane Fong quit Sophia University in March last year, changed her student visa to a working visa and established GI Jane Inc., a comprehensive Akihabara information company, that July. She and seven others invested ¥7.7 million to open a small office in Japan’s biggest “electric town.”
The company creates Akihabara maps, posts news and shop […]
ABCLocal:
You’re probably enjoying your first or second cup of coffee right now, brewed the usual way: in a coffee pot. But that’s not the only way to make a Cup-of-Joe. A college student from Westchester is finding success with his unique approach to brewing.
Luke Kelly is making a special delivery to the Chocolations candy store […]
TribStar:
Students struggling with algebra, chemistry and other subjects now have a new resource at their disposal.
Matt Fouts, 20, a Terre Haute native and Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology junior, has started a tutoring business called Rose-Learning. The Web site, with contact information, is at www.rose-learning.com. The business entrepreneur has three other Rose-Hulman students tutoring with him: […]
Wired:
Ready to taste envy? To burn with regret? Meet Paddy Donnelly and Lee Munroe. They’re selling words at a buck per letter. Donnelly, 22, and Munroe, 23 — graduate students at the University of Ulster-Belfast — dreamed up the Big Word Project while brainstorming a mass collaboration Web site that would let Donnelly use his […]
Norwich Evening News:
A young entrepreneur from the University of East Anglia has been named a national finalist in a prestigious business competition for his pioneering invention.
Luke Jefferson, a 28-year-old PhD student, is in the running to win £20,000 after coming up with computer software to help the men and women who are colour-blind across the […]
Yahoo News:
A year ago, Jeff Shea began buying up rental properties around the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from which he had only recently graduated with a business major. Shea, 23, who lives in Chicago, owns three rental homes near campus, including a four-bedroom house he bought for $138,000 and rents to four students for […]
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