- Aquarium Service
- Coffee shop
- College marketing, promotions, and consulting firm
- Computer retailer
- Computer sales and repairs
- Custom cookie business
- Deejay business
- Designing classic video game controllers
- Dorm design and dorm accessories
- Driftwood art furniture and accessory company
- Genealogy software company
- Glow-in-the-dark bicycle technology
- Greeting card company
- Gymnastics business
- International network of reptile breeders
- Landscaping company
- Manufacturing and retailing gardening accessories
- Motivational speaking company
- Music business
- Online investment newsletter
- PDA communications computer consulting
- Real-estate developer
- Rehabilitation software company
- Residential and commercial painting company
- Retail clothing store
- Sign manufacturer
- Web hosting company
- Web sites where students can list and exchange textbooks
- Web/graphic design
- Window cleaning service
- Workout facility/gym
Well-Known Businesses Started by Undergraduate Students:
In addition to Microsoft, Dell, Napster, Netscape, FedEx, Apple, Tripod, and TheGlobe.com, here are some other enterprises started by undergraduate entrepreneurs:
- Virante, “Web marketing services for emerging growth and high potential companies,” started by Ryan Allis when he was in high school and revived when he was a student at the University of North Carolina.
- Mistico Jewelry, started by Missy Fine in high school and continued when she went to college at Babson College, Babson Park, MA.
- Plaxo, started by Todd Masonis and Cameron Ring when Ring was working on his master’s degree. Plaxo keeps people connected by solving the problem of out-of-date contact information.
- CertificateSwap.com, founded by Cameron Johnson when he was a 19-year-old student at Virginia Tech and later sold. Johnson then started EMazingSites.com, a search-engine optimization site.
- Dream On Information Technology, Inc., founded by University of Central Florida students Alex Volin and Keith Rogers, offering Web design and technical outsourcing.
- GoSMG.com, started by Jason Smith while he was a student at Cypress College, is a fundraising product and program distributor.
- TicketAdvantage, founded by Adam Witty when he was a senior at Clemson University, provides transactions for ticket buyers and ticket sellers to sports and entertainment events around the world.
- Inventables, which creates “how-to” materials for entrepreneurs, inventors, and engineers, is actually the second company that Zach Kaplan and Keith Schacht started as students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Kaplan, a mechanical engineering major, and Schacht, a computer science major, joined Lehigh University marketing and finance major Brian Witlin, in founding Lever Works, Inc, an Internet applications development company that the trio sold to e-learning company Leo Media, Inc.
- College Prowler, founded as a class project by Luke Skurman as a student at Carnegie Mellon University, offers guides to the top 200 colleges.
- Axon Sleep Research Laboratories was hatched when Brown University student Samee McDannel told a friend after a difficult exam that a groggy morning had made her test go poorly. From this conversation sprung the inspiration of an alarm clock, SleepSmart, that would guarantee the end of sleepy, bleary-eyed mornings by monitoring a user’s sleep cycle. Business-oriented Brown student Eric Shashoua soon joined Samee. In 2003, Axon Labs won the Brown University Entrepreneurship Program Elevator Speech competition after pitching their SleepSmart product.
- AllDorm Inc., a college furnishings manufacturer, was started by Ryan Garman, Kevon Saber, Chad Arimura, Ivan Dwyer, who met at Santa Clara University.
June 29th, 2011 at 3:09 pm
Yup, that’ll do it. You have my appcreitaion.
June 30th, 2011 at 9:52 am
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