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Startup Hot Seat: Universities Finest vs Bucks Happening
Today we have Universities Finest and Bucks Happening profiled below. Both companies are making moves and cost virtually nothing to start. Universities Finest simply saw an opening and starting making calenders at campuses across the county. Bucks Happening is an extremely niche blog show casing everything happening in Bucks country Pennsylvania. Simple ideas that a [...]
Lessons in Customer Service from a Small Business
Earlier this year we had the opportunity to interview Fan Bi of Blank Label. He shared some great advice and gave a lot of insight into the start of Blank Label and its future. Recently Blank Label went through a great and awful experience at the same time as they saw their sales quadruple within [...]
Design What You Wear: Interview With Fan Bi of Blank Label
Blank-label is a revolutionary start-up that lets men customize their own dress shirts. Blank Label has seen a great response from day one getting daily orders and being featured in things like The New York Times, BusinessWeek and Forbes. The founders Fan Bi (22) and Danny Wong (19) are not shy about saying they are [...]
Startup “Go Try It On” Makes Sure You Look Damn Good
What is the story behind Go Try It On? While getting ready with friends, Marissa noticed that no matter which friends she was with…everyone would ask the same questions in the moments before going out…”How do I look?” … She also realized when home, alone…there was never anyone to ask about her outfit! She thought, [...]
Overworked, Disgusted and Broke? Start a Business
Today is the best day to strike out on your own and launch your business; but, I must warn you—you will be told by your family, friends and colleagues that your idea will not work. They will say the risk is too big, that most businesses fail in the first three years and on and [...]
Go Green Fundraising Focuses on Earth Friendly Fundraising
What is the story behind your company? The recession was just starting to get into full swing in 2008 and I realized that groups like sports leagues, churches, and schools would be feeling the effects of a downward economy and there would be a greater need for fundraising options. At the same time, the green [...]
How to Embrace Change and Make it Positive
It is not a question of IF major changes will occur in our lives, but rather a question of when and how often they will occur. We will experience change in many areas of our lives – our homes, our beliefs, our careers, our health, our friendships, and our love lives. Change is inevitable and [...]
Little Duck Organics is Moving Forward with Organic Baby Foods
Year Founded: 2009 Founders and Ages? Zak Normandin, 26 URL: http://www.littleduckorganics.com Tell us about your company: When my wife and I went shopping for food and snacks to give to our two young daughters, we always talked about the lack of selection in the baby aisle. We always enjoyed purchasing organic or locally produced products [...]
100 Hour Work Weeks, a Sorority and Dropping Out of College Leads to Thriving Startup
Derek Johnson is 25 and the founder of Tatango.com but he never even graduated college. He spent a brief period at the University of Washington but was denied from their business school so he left for the Universities of Houston’s entrepreneurship program. It was there he came up with Tatango with a little help from [...]
Two College Students Aim to Connect People Across the World with Zaang
Startup Profile: Zaang Year Founded: 2007 URL: http://www.zaang.com Founders and Ages: Michael Markarian, 23 Alex Kravets, 21 What is the story behind your company? ie. where did the idea come from, how was it founded etc..: Michael Markarian and Alex Kravets founded Zaang in 2007 while students at Babson College. They saw tremendous opportunity in [...]
22-24 Year Olds Running an International Import Company: FBC Worldwide
Startup Profile: FBC Worldwide Year founded: May 2008 Founders: FBC was co-founded by Nathan Yap, Farid Aliji (friend from college), and Imtiaz Khanji (Farid’s cousin) URL: http://www.fbctrust.com, www.pinakuratusa.com About the company: We import a variety of food food products from Southeast Asia into the US. Additionally, we will all be leaving in April for the [...]
Startup Profile – Puffing Cigars
When was the company founded? PuffingCigars.com published its first article on the internet in May 2008. Names of founders and ages? Rob Villalobos 22 Wyatt Bostic 20 Anthony Cantelmo 26 Grant Blunt 28 URL: http://PuffingCigars.com Tell us about the company: Puffingcigars.com is a website dedicated to the exploration, investigation, and promotion of all things cigar [...]
Why You Should Be An Entrepreneur In College
If your profession could be given a risk factor, ‘entrepreneurs‘ would probably fall on the high end of the chart. Because of the ‘risk’ involved in starting your own business with little guarantee of success, entrepreneurs risk all to gain all. With that said, college is one of the best times to start pursuing your [...]
Entrepreneur Survival Tips
As an entrepreneur, if you want to ’survive’ and make it off the ‘island’, then you must succeed. Failure is not an option, yet it is the most common result. In what can be called odd, so many people choose to play this game of ‘entrepreneurship’ even though they are fully aware that odds are [...]
