What the Students Say: Sustainable Product and Market Development for Subsistence Marketplaces
Things look different when you finally meet your customers, as student Jenna Goebig learned. Read more
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Best Courses 2011: New Ventures
A program that places students in local angel groups Read more
Best Courses 2011: NUvention
A group of classes that focuses on three fast-growing verticals: medical devices, energy, and Internet businesses Read more
Best Courses 2011: Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans With Disabilities
A professor works with disabled veterans to help them build their futures. Read more
Best Courses 2011: Founders' Dilemmas
A course that focuses on people problems instead of the strategy-innovation-finance trifecta Read more
A Brewing Feud at Microsoft?
Paul Allen's unflattering portrayal of Bill Gates is stoking controversy, a new cohort of young (and rich) entrepreneurs discover charity, and the rest of th... Read more
Why I Love Negative Comments
In business, it is everyone's responsibility to be a harsh critic. Read more
Jessica Kim of BabbaCo 
Jessica Kim, formerly a brand manager at Kraft Foods, is founder and CEO of BabbaCo. Watch video
Great Entrepreneurial Fallacies
Myths of starting your own business exposed. Plus, is the Supreme Court getting tough on business? Read more
How Hipmunk Learned to Respect Its Users
Hipmunk's Alexis Ohanian's site-building philosophy centers around loving users. That's because his last company, Reddit, was made by them. Read more
A Fresh Take on a Franchise Start-up
A young entrepreneur is bringing fresh food to the massesâ€"and putting a Gen-Y spin on an old-school concept. Read more
Airbnb Mobile App Stands Out at SXSW
Nominated for the South By Southwest Interactive Awards for Mobile, Airbnb founders talk about growing pains and what's next. Read more
Ideas From SXSW: What You Missed This Weekend
The buspreneurs pitch investors, plus everyone's talking games, incentives, and influencers. Here's the latest from Austin. Read more
How to Launch a Website in 3 Minutes
Inexpensive website services, apps, and SEO tactics can help you get a small business website up in nearly no time. Read more
A Messaging System for All Smartphones
Tyler McIntyre, a sophomore triple-major at the University of Miami, is bootstrapping his third tech company: a multi-platform chat system. Read more
Harnessing the Sun More Efficiently
Stanford University sophomore Tom Currier might seem part mad-scientist, but his "death ray" is attracting investor attention as he grows an innovative company. Read more
Simplified, Speedy File-sharing
Min.us, the minimalist online sharing platform co-created by John Xie, a Babson senior who's a serial entrepreneur, is one of the 2,000 most trafficked sites... Read more
Text Messages That Teach
Princeton senior Breanden Beneschott got good at tutoring his sister over SMS, so he started a text-message test-prep subscription service. Read more
Simple Ordering for Custom T-shirts
Berkeley sophomore Raymond Lei couldn’t find inexpensive custom-shirts, so he built an easy-to-use website and found great suppliers. Read more
Bringing Fixed-gear Bikes to the Masses
Craving cooler wheels, two friends from the University of Southern California found an inexpensive manufacturer, and have been hawking sturdy minimalist bicy... Read more
MTV for the Overachiever Generation?
Arielle Scott, a former Jessica Mah collaborator, is on a mission to empower young adults to innovate—and she’s building a media empire to do so. Read more
An Online Community for Tweens
Juliette Brindak began sketching to entertain her sister as a tween. Now the Washington University senior is CEO of a website dedicated to entertaining and e... Read more
Simplifying Cross-Platform Digital Book Publishing
University of Northern Iowa junior Nick Cash wanted digital computer science books. So he developed a user-friendly self-publishing system that distributes a... Read more
Uniting Students in Sustainable Microfinance
University of Pennsylvania freshman Charlie Javice seeks to create a microfinance platform with the potential to reach—and educate—thousands of students. Read more
Finding Students the Cheapest Textbooks
After finding egregiously expensive prices for textbooks at his campus bookstore, Richard Mondello, a Tufts junior, teamed with Michael White and Michael Wal... Read more
Old Hollywood Beauty With Natural Formulas
A makeup artist since age nine, Jessica Truesdale was inspired by beauty-industry legends like Estée Lauder and Elizabeth Arden, and founded True You Cosmet... Read more
Solved! Hands-free Door Opening
Under pressure to create a start-up for class, University of Minnesota senior Max Arndt engineered a simple foot lever to free hands from germs. Meet the Toe... Read more
How This 19-Year-Old Is Taking On Google
He's an Israeli who sidestepped military service in favor of moving to the Bay Area to become Y Combinator's youngest founder. Six months later, all eyes are... Read more
Why Being Unreasonable Pays Off
Lately, it seems that I'm surrounded by thoroughly unreasonable people. I started the day reading an except from Read more
Should You Drop Out?
Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs all dropped out of college. But does that mean you should, too? We staged a debate between two college entreprene... Read more
A Fast-Growing Lawncare Company
University of Colorado student Emil Motycka repurposed a lawncare and landscaping business he started in elementary school. Now he has hundreds of customers ... Read more
Tech Companies Host Internships for Middle Schoolers
A New York teacher is recruiting tech start-ups to offer micro-internships to his 12- and 13-years-old students. Read more
How Should We Educate the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs?
That was the topic of The Future of Entrepreneurship Education Summit , held last week at the Univers... Read more
Steve Huffman, Co-founder of Hipmunk
Steve Huffman founded Reddit in 2005 when he was 22-years-old. Hear how he took the lessons from there to his newest company, Hipmunk. Watch video
The Sugar Made Him Do It
Siggi Hilmarsson, founder of Siggi's Skyr yogurt, discusses his trial-and-error process of starting up, the American diet, and the importance of sleep. Read more
