America’s coolest College Start-Ups 2012

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Coolest College Startups

Tomorrow's big business may be today's dorm room invention. From a personalized electric motor bike to pop-up medical clinics to the latest in QR code technology, the 2012 class of our annual college start-ups were founded on the mission to give back to the world’s communities, be on the cutting-edge of innovation, and have fun while doing it.




Recent Coolest College Startups Articles

Flake-Proof Your Next Event: trueRSVP

Fei Xiao and Anna Sergeeva, two undergrads at the University of Southern California, are building a tool to help event planners get better attendance.  Read more

Serving Greens for Green: The Little Salad Shop

Two Yale students used their college weight gain as motivation to start a thriving, health food restaurant.  Read more

Reel In Your Audience: Big Fish Presentations

Kenny Nguyen of Big Fish Presentations is ridding the world of humdrum slide shows, one client at a time.  Read more

An Entertaining Way to Turn a Profit: Arizona Pro DJs

Will Curran turned his passion for entertaining and music into a successful one-stop shop business for teen events.  Read more

A Gracious Host for Bloggers: A Small Orange

Douglas Hanna helps run a company with revenue in the millions and keeps your website online--when he’s not in class.  Read more

Technology For Generation Next: Teens in Tech Labs

Why Microsoft is backing a technology incubator for teens, an idea that Daniel Brusilovsky came up with at 15 years old.  Read more

Turns Shipping Containers into Med Clinics: G3Box

Through their young company, Gabrielle Palermo and her three co-founders are donating clinics to those in need.  Read more

Making Gift-Giving a Cinch: BetterBoo

University of Tampa senior Nick Chmura is turning his personal quest to be a better gift-giver into a profitable business.  Read more

Doing it for the Troops: Salute the Brave

Ryan Morris launched Salute the Brave, a clothing line designed to give back to the United States military members stationed overseas.  Read more

Cracking the iPhone: iCracked

A college student stealing business from Apple? AJ Forsythe has built his business on fixing iPhone cheaper and more conveniently.  Read more

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