October 1st, 2007
As promised in the previous entry, here are some tips on how you can create great posters to advertise your business on campus. Put as little as possible on the poster (illustrations or text). Don’t clutter your poster with useless catchphrases and images. Make sure that every single letter and every single line is there [...]
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September 29th, 2007
If you’re a college entrepreneur, you have the option of creating a business that caters to markets outside the school or within the school. If your business is the latter, this means that you need to figure out ways to successfully advertise your business on campus. Here are some tips on how to advertise in [...]
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November 30th, 2006
Sponsored Post: As the web develops, the two biggest commodities are going to be 1) content and 2) functional infrastructure. Any business that can provide new/better content, or new/better functionality will succeed. That’s the great thing about the web, it enables good ideas to succeed, almost naturally. Well, we were recently contacted by Custom Ink [...]
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November 17th, 2006
What’s the hardest thing about running a new business? There’s only one correct answer to this question. Think you got it? Ok. Here it is: getting the word out; shouting from the rooftops; letting people know that you exist. Since College Startup is all about giving you the tools you need to run a successful [...]
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October 20th, 2006
At College Startup we love hearing out about successful startup ventures that began in college. To that end, we were glad to sit down with Paragon Lake co-founder Matt Lauzon to discuss his experiences with starting and growing a successful business while still in college. In the process, Matt shared some invaluable gems of advice [...]
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