NBCDFW.com: A 10-year-old boy in Mansfield may have the right idea when it comes to making a buck in a tough economy. He took his passion for art and turned into a business. “It makes me happy. That’s why I came up with the business ‘cuz I wanted to do something I liked,” Bryce Roberson […]
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The Jewish Week: If Eric Forkosh has his way, the days of waiting on a street corner for the school bus to arrive will become a relic of the past. Forkosh, a junior at Rambam Mesivta High School, created Bus Alert!, a handheld unit that uses radio signals to alert students and parents when the
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photo credit: andydr From TechCrunch comes word of a new semester-based startup camp for very, very early-stage entrepreneurs and students who have basic ideas for potential startups but have not yet founded a company: What this economy needs to get out of its rut is more startups. Adeo Ressi, the founder of VC-rating site TheFunded,
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The Buffalo News: Nicole Rhynes had a bounce in her step as she hustled from one workshop to another at Erie County Community College. The sophomore had just left a workshop led by Tony Magiotto, owner of local fashion boutique CityLove Clothing and was feeling inspired as she rushed to a discussion about business ethics.
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The New York Times: Peter Zummo, a senior double-majoring in design and mechanical engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is used to explaining the products he thinks up for his studio-class assignments. But last spring, he found himself answering questions of a different kind in a conference room at Rensselaer’s office of technology commercialization, which tracks
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AnaNova: A British design company have launched a new product to help children concentrate at school – pre-chewed pencils. The company, called Concentrate, says the pencils look like they have already been chewed making pupils less likely to put them in their mouths. And they say this is a cheap but effective way of encouraging
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ChicoER.com: It’s like writing a school paper for Meagan Ting, one of the hosts of Teen Talk at Chico’s public radio station, KZFR. She researches a topic, say, mental illness by surfing the Internet, talking to friends or bouncing ideas off her sometimes co-host, Amber McCready. “We e-mail it back and forth until it’s done,”
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The Suffolk Journal: The New Product Innovation Competition, an annual competition open to all Suffolk students, had its third annual award ceremony at the Law School. The competition was established in 2006 by Professor Sushil Bhatia of the Sawyer Business School. First place was awarded to Marrinder Singh, Karen Lassko, Maria Brown, and Rick Baker
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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.
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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
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