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I think these are great strategies for those who are starting a business while still working full-time at a “day job” or for high school and college students looking to make some extra cash by moonlighting as their own neighborhood’s computer guy.  More...
Serial entrepreneur, Peter J. Burns, III, the founder of Club Entrepreneur and the nation's first College of Entrepreneurship just launched the eFactory, a state-of-the-art entrepreneurial resource center housing dozens of start-up busineses. The prototype and Club E headquarters recently launched in Phoenix and in a recently signed agreement with  More...
The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine rank the best undergraduate and graduate programs for entrepreneurs.  More...
Jodi Smith wasn't always so outgoing. In fact, she was so shy in high school that she knew "maybe three people out of a class of more than 1,000" when she graduated. Heading to college, however, Smith made the conscious decision to reinvent herself, "just to see what would happen." Well, her experiment seems to have worked. After a decade  More...
Columbia's undergraduate school has a new minor called "technological entrepreneurship".  More...
Another great post asking the question: is college even worth it if you're going to be an entrepreneur?  More...
An interesting post about whether or not entrepreneurs should even bother getting their college degree. Should they just start their business right away and gain experience or go to college and gain education?  More...
In 1989, I left India with two dream-stuffed suitcases for college in Western Massachusetts. This was long before the wave of Information Technology swept the country, dotting business parks across once ox-plowed fields. My Swiss Air flight roared above Bombay, above the rickshaw traffic and stray cows. Despite the 6000 miles, the 23 hour plane ri  More...
Looking for a way to reach college students? Despite declines in mainstream newspaper readership, college newspapers are an integral part of students’ lives, with over three-quarters (76%) of them saying they have read their college newspaper in the past month, according to a recent Alloy Media + Marketing study. That figure is an impressive 9  More...
From article: Remember in high school or college the couple that seemed to have a never-ending, on again, off again dating relationship? One week they’re on, the next week they’re off. The next week they’re on, the following week they’re off. Well, in speaking with tens of thousands of entrepreneurs and business owners, I’ve found that many hav  More...
Nickerson PME is one of a growing number of small business owners who feel comfortable offering students an internship experience without financial compensation. It's a model that is becoming increasingly controversial within the higher education community, where career-services professionals say students should be paid at least minimum wage. Com  More...
The more businesses a person owns, the higher his or her income, education level, and loan amounts and mortgage, finds an Experian study of small-business owners - sole business owners and multi-business owners. Compared with the overall population, small business owners are more likely to be married and have children, have a college education  More...
With apologies to Philip Kotler, whose four Ps—product, price, place, and promotion—have been integral to any successful product or service marketing effort of the past 50 years, today's successful marketing hinges on five new Ps. Whereas the Ps we studied in college are all from the provider's point of view, these new Ps focus with laser-like c  More...
A great post by Dan Schwabel of Personal Branding, sharing his presentation on personal branding to college students.  More...
If the U.S. economy is about to take a dirt nap for a quarter or four, time to cut marketing budget, right? Not necessarily, according to a 2005 report out of Penn State’s Smeal College of Business, “Turning adversity into advantage: Does proactive marketing during a recession pay off?”  More...