Selling yourself is a daily task for the entrepreneur; every day you are out to prove yourself. Your business, ideas, and vision rely on your ability to ultimately make yourself look good. Usually there are several ways to do that: being looked on well in the meeting, the interview, or in the resume. By mastering all three of those the entrepreneur will that much more successful. Instead of having to do it alone, however, a web service just might help you accomplish this goal:

At Brand-Yourself.com we aim to establish a student's personal brand early so they can get the job of their dreams and love what they do. By establishing an online presence to control what comes up in Google while staying true to their brand, they should have no problem getting the job they want and deserve. For more actionable tips to strengthen your personal brand on the web please go to our blog at http://blog.brand-yourself.com.

By controlling how others see you on the digital world, the job/project-seeker can really let loose on all their strengths. Brand-Yourself.com works because it plays directly to your strengths and advantages: be defined and looked on as how you want. By using 'online presence' to impress companies, individuals, or organizations it will be easier to be more confident and convince others of your pros. In addition to having a personal brand, Brand-Yourself.com can help the job-seeker with branding their outside, offline performance and generally help them with their job search.


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Posted at 12:52 PM  

Collaboration is essential to business, startups, and life. Usually students understand the nature of collaboration well; students tend to work together on projects in-class or out of class that range from academic to political to personal. Also, students tend to understand how the Internet, ultimately a tool of collaboration, works. That is why Musicblender.com, currently looking for a web programmer, is a good idea: music collaboration and social networking go hand in hand. Posted by Kellet Atkinson of the University of North Carolina, Musicblender.com has a lot to work with:

"Musicblender.com is a site that will provide a unique platform that facilitates online musical collaboration. Users will be able to work together to create songs, have access to informative forums, and have their content streamed on internet radio. It will generate revenue through online advertising."

A classical example of a simple web idea that could go the distance, Musicblender.com has at its core a goal of being the go to place to create songs and bolster community. Since the online community is so tight on other social networking websites, the ability to share and create music will be easily spreadable to other popular media sites. With a creative design and a good start, Musicblender.com could become the next big online music business.

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Labels: music social networking, music startups, musicblender.com, social networking, studentbusinesses.com

Posted at 10:37 PM  

Entrepreneurs tend to have many ways in which they can enter a market or create a business. The big question on their mind is usually what type of product or service to use and whether it will make them money. However, the entrepreneur doesn't necessarily have to create a new product or service but instead could always just improve on a business that is already there. Choosing to take the route of helping others first, Kristen Callahan of Babson College is in a family business that understands what it takes to improve another business:

"Virtual North Shore is a company that provides virtual tours for the real estate industry. The real estate industry is expandable in many venues; including but defiantly not limited to: property for sale, houses, commercial units, rentals as well as owned, online portfolios for construction agencies and contractors, housing pre-rental documentation, hotels including bed and breakfast as well as time shares and vacation spots. We bring our clients and their customers together virtually anywhere. It increases property turn-over (selling/rentals) by over 75%."

The idea behind having a business that makes another business do well is shared by many but is unique in itself: the purpose is to make everyone's job easier. If someone doesn't have the means to actually go to the house in the next day or week, why not take a virtual tour and make your job that much easier? Not only does it save money (gas), it also saves time. Virtual North Shore makes it easier to market a property, making the real estate agent's job easier and less time consuming. VNS does not just have one client, the real estate agent, but in another sense two or more clients, the prospective buyers. VNS is just one example of how to improve the market by means of helping others make the sell.

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Labels: real estate, studentbusinesse.com, virtual north shore

Posted at 6:43 PM  

Computer software is a must for the university student. Everyone is well acquainted with Microsoft programs, design software, and even that lonely chess game that came with your computer. Even though a lot of programs are sold for entertainment purposes, not as much are for learning and education. However, with the advent of portable technology, there is no excuse for not having programs that will make studying easier and more efficient. As a way to bridge the gap between a popular cellphone technology and learning, Chris Parcel of UCLA created a software that makes it less boring to study:

"iStudyToGo is an easy to use software application that allows you to make the most of your downtime. With iStudyToGo, you can easily create notes, flashcards, or any other text you find handy to have with you on-the-go, and load them onto your iPod. iStudyToGo makes it easy for you to share notes between friends, classmates, as well as the extended iStudyToGo community, making study-guides and other useful information available to all."

As far as applications go, iStudyToGo will always be a desired application: for those students desiring to be good students while also being an iFreak, they can now combine two different functions into one. The simplicity of the software can only be enhanced by the many functions that can be added. For instance, voice software, language flashcards, and math propositions are all useful and designable features of a iStudyToGo software. There is no limit to how much more efficient such a program can make it for the student. For the studious student that happens to have an Apple product, iStudyToGo should be an interesting and useful tool.

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Posted at 7:07 PM  

A growing energy is brewing among student entrepreneurs and this energy has green written all over it. Environmentalism has become an important staple in the youth culture and it is only growing in scope. With more websites, magazines, newspapers, and organizations devoting their time to environmentalism it is no surprise that student businesses are creating businesses around the cause. One student business, called The Beanstockd Project (no e), took entertainment and turned it green:

"The Beanstockd Project is a web-based environmental media organization using pop culture as a vehicle to deliver environmental news to young-adults who would not otherwise be exposed to it. Our goal is to harness the power of competition and entertainment to effect tangible change in the real world using an innovative and unprecedented web 2.0 application."

Started by Angela Antony (Harvard University), The Beanstockd Project decided to really mix it up by taking something which people are genuinely curious about, like entertainment and media, and the concerns of the Earth. The killer concept for this student venture is that there is no end to the creativity involved in making environmentalism relevant; every business, product, attitude, and philosophy has to do with how people react to the Earth and this is important for the future development of civilization. With enough application innovation and marketing, The Beanstockd Project could become a go-to resource for those who want to know what's happening while keeping it green.

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Labels: Beanstockd Project, social entrepreneurship, student business., student venture

Posted at 7:13 PM  

Investing is an activity that most people don't understand nor involve themselves in. Usually the activity must be learned via a lot of experience and even then a grounded understanding. Young people, especially students, would not be expected to invest and because of this they are usually cut out of the running. A new kind of business, innovative for its scope and its implication, has popped up as a social networking website with a spin: it's all about investing. UpDown.com, founded by Michael Reich and Georg Ludviksson, is a website that will give people the ability to invest money that really isn't there:

UpDown.com is the leader in social networking for virtual investing. In addition to giving members $1,000,000 in virtual money to invest, UpDown provides a platform for investors to improve their skills through collaboration, competition and aggregated wisdom. Described by CNBC as "fantasy football meets the trading floor," UpDown is the only free investment platform that allows members to earn money with zero risk of financial loss.

The basic premise behind this venture is strong: learn how to invest at zero risk with the opportunity of making money. Those participating might find out that investing is fun and useful. On the business side it is smart: be the number one website for virtual investing and have everyone, from little Chip to grandma, join in on the race. Further, UpDown.com is a classic example of how to reinvent a concept from the real world and combine it with the great capacity of the Internet. With an even younger audience learning to become computer literate and a far reaching global audience, UpDown.com has a lot of potential.

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Posted at 7:11 PM  

The student entrepreneur usually has an unshakable vision and passion regarding their business. There is just one aspect that gets in the way of most ventures: funding the development stage. Funding, synonymous with 'lots of money I probably don't have' always causes concerns for student entrepreneurs. This may lead to dismay or concern that the business will have to cut corners or find inferior solutions to problems. Fortunately, the Internet has made it easier for businesses of all kinds to offer cheaper than usual services. That is why StudentBusinesses.com is featuring a web development business that just might help the student entrepreneur out there create their vision. Maintained by Ram Dhan and Sri Govind at Harvard University, Novedea Systems Inc is a software development service that promises affordability and giving you what you need:

"Are you looking for High Quality and Affordable Software Development Services to transform your vision to reality? Novedea is a Technology Services company that quickly implements cutting edge technology solutions that realize your vision and strengthen your business. Novedea practice areas include Start-Up Product Lifecycle Mgmt, Web 2.0 / Custom App Development, On/Near/Off shore Delivery, Enterprise Solutions, Business Intelligence, Project/Program Management, Corporate Performance Management, Business Process Management, Quality Assurance, Technical Sourcing and Corporate Training."

The student is especially aware of costs (considering the high price of university life) and would appreciate any deal that they can get to save money. That is why Novedea works and jives well with the student entrepreneur. In addition to saving money, there are a wide amount of services that Nobedea offers to the budding entrepreneur. Coupled with a plethora of services, Novedea would also be greatly advantageous to those who do not know much about the Web 2.0 world. With enough advertising and projects Novedea Systems Inc could become a very successful yet affordable software development company.

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Posted at 2:49 PM