10 Must-Read Articles on College Entrepreneurship and Student-Led Startups

6. College Entrepreneurs: How I Built a Profitable Company In 24 Months

Tyler Ward was a freshman in college when he got the idea for Letter Photography, a website that makes an art out of names and phrases created from photographs. He now operates the business out of his home—his college frat house. Read more

7. College Entrepreneurs: Chelsea Krost’s Teen Lifestyle Multimedia Brand

Tired of reading about teen train wrecks, teen entrepreneur Chelsea Krost launched Teen Talk Life (now known as “The Chelsea Krost Show”) in 2008, a morning radio show endeavored to give teens a voice. In the course of a few years, Krost has transformed her small radio talk show into a multimedia brand that labels her as a TV journalist, author, motivational speaker, teen philanthropist and national spokesperson for U by Kotex. Read more

8. College Entrepreneurs Launch Gourmet Popsicle Business

Brought together by a self-formed investment club, sophomores Erik Brust, Connor Wray, Andrew Sather, and Kilian Wald created JonnyPops, a local line of frozen gourmet treats that is sold on the campus of St. Olaf College and the city on Northfield, MN. After being inspired by his late cousin Jeffrey, Brust decided to use his idea of a gourmet frozen pop business in honor of him. Read more

9. College Entrepreneur Aims to Make Bad Presentations Obsolete

Bored with the typical PowerPoint presentation, Kenny Nguyen sought to remove the monotony from presentations. In 2012, he launched Big Fish Presentations, a design firm that creates original and visually appealing presentations to help presenters engage their audiences. Since startup, Big Fish Presentations has earned several awards and recognition for their innovative presentations throughout the state of Louisiana and the country. Read more

10. Teen Entrepreneurs Launch Ed-Tech Startup StatFuse to Make College Prep Easy

The worries and responsibilities of most high school students include dating, exams, prom, and graduation. But for Jeet Banerjee, it was establishing a web design company. Banerjee created JB Media Force at the age of 17, and a year and a half later sold the startup to focus on StatFuse with co-founder Supan Shah, an education web application geared towards assisting high school students prepare and get into college. Read more

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