Business Opportunities Weblog

July 31, 2008 by Rich Whittle | 3 Comments

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 during college is easier now than it was before. Blame it on the internet! Young people like yourself can start a business with your own savings or by borrowing from your parents and relatives. Resources online give you access to information about setting up your own enterprise; they link you to other entrepreneurs who can teach you, or who can expand your business through partnerships.

Founded by Mark Zuckerberg as a student in Harvard, Facebook was first restricted to students of the university. It quickly adapted to demand and has since expanded its base to anybody who is above 13 years old. Nifty and customizable applications were added later on. So far, it has a purported value of $15 billion and is the second largest social network on the internet.

Cookie makers undertook a humbler endeavor. Do you ever get hungry at the most unholy of hours? Especially when you’re studying? A few undergraduates decided to answer midnight snackers’ needs. Aptly called Insomnia Cookies, these students have been delivering fresh cookies and milk at any time their customers needed them.

Photo by albany.edu.

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