Entrepreneurship
Going green with Greenvelope
Have you ever wanted to start your own business? Did you let your age, experience, knowledge or savings limit you from beginning your own venture? Like many students involved in the Student Entrepreneurial Program here at Washington University, freshman Sam Franklin launched a company that provides online invitations, and he did it from his Seattle home.
Entrepreneurship competition draws increasing interest
The YouthBridge Community Foundation pledged $450,000 over the next three years to continue funding the Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Competition in partnership with Washington University. Each year, the Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Competition (SEIC) awards between $25,000 and $35,000 to winning business teams that present innovative business solutions to social problems.
“Get moving. This is a race!”
Bright and early on Saturday morning, students from eight different schools from as far away as the University of Illinois gathered to participate in the second annual St. Louis Race to Entrepreneurship. Even through the speed trivia and the sleepy 9 a.m. haze, the students were literally running for the prize.
Take that idea and run with it: Entrepreneurship on campus
Juliette Brindak started MissOandFriends.com when she was 13 years old. She is now a Washington University sophomore, and her Web site has reached preteen girls around the country as a site “created by girls for girls.”
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