If you’re a student running a business, chances are your base of operations is either your dorm room, a small apartment, or a garage. Hey, a lot of those Silicon Valley guys started that way. Nowadays, that’s OK, since we can always put up a site and make our businesses look bigger than they really [...]
This must be a dream come true for some of you out there. CollegeScholarships.org will be giving away $10,000 worth of scholarship money to a worthy student who blogs and does it passionately. It was apparently a brainchild of people who also make a living through blogging, and wanted a way to give back. Interested? [...]
Recently, I read an article on CNN about students leaving the US, not to go off on a holiday, but to flee from their creditors. On average, students graduate with over $2,000 in credit card debt, but in extreme cases this could balloon to $160,000. That’s pretty mind-boggling. It’s sad to know that some people [...]
During some downtime this past week, I started browsing the Ticket Exchange Facebook group for my university’s website, curious as to what football tickets were going for now that our football team is nationally ranked at a surprising #25 in the nation. I was pretty surprised to see single game tickets going for $30+ apiece, [...]
Everyday, all we seem to hear about in the news are credit crunch here, and stock market woes there. But though the economy may be slowing down, Gen Y seems to be keen on taking on the challenge. A survey commissioned by Pricegrabber.com entitled “Online Purchasing Trends by Generation” had a section on entrepreneurship, and [...]
