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College Students Create Innovative Businesses
on March 17, 2009
Whether it's sports packages, donut shops or language software, college students prove that they can come up with interesting business ideas and work hard to make them succeed. Inc.com tells the story of nine cool college start-up companies in a slideshow.
A University of Southern California senior created College Weekenders to give students a less expensive way to travel to other universities for football games. On the first trip, David Wachtel booked group package deals for 216 customers that earned him $50,000 in revenue. He said he hopes to plan weekend trips for other universities this fall and reach $300,000 in revenue.
Double majoring in entrepreneurship and marketing as well as opening three Simply Splendid Donuts & Ice Cream stores keeps University of Houston senior Danny Klam pretty busy. But the work is paying off as the chain grossed $750,000 last year and could reach $1.2 million this year.
Two MIT students designed a software application for classrooms that allows classmates to work on their pronunciation of languages including Chinese. The Lingt Editor allows teachers to create assignments for each student using audio, images, text and video.
The students can also record and turn in audio of themselves through a Web browser. Justin Cannon and Chris Varenhorst took the program on a pilot test in several schools and plan to continue the tests at high schools.
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