This is News in :90 for Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014.
News in :90 – Nov. 4, 2014
Entrepreneurs target peers for twitter-based shoveling business
Juniors Dan Kettler, Willie Falk and Tanner Jensen use social media to accept service requests for their snow shoveling business, dubbed Tweet N’ Done.
Ice carving combines students’ talents
Robbie Harrell, an entrepreneurship major, and Stu Lombardo, a mechanical engineering major, teamed up making art out of a Minnesota staple—ice.
Student entreprenuers devise discrete packaging for deodorant
Junior Nyajal Dup and sophomore Andrea Nelson are in the beginning stages of their business venture— selling a unique version of travel-sized deodorant.
Holding Hope aims to restore normalcy for hospitalized children
Four St. Thomas sophomores are giving hope to hospitalized children as part of a business venture started in their entrepreneurship 200 class.
University’s first for-profit class offers self defense course
Students in professor John Del Vecchio’s business law 354 class said they will offer self-defense classes to the community for a fee on Tuesday and on Nov. 19.
Students’ ‘True You’ clothing line encourages individuality
Social cues and pressures can often influence fashion choices, but a clothing line designed by three students attempts the opposite— to promote individuality.
Fowler Challenge adds ‘social venture’ category
Fowler Business Concept Challenge social venture submissions are business ideas that specifically aim to benefit a community.
Graduate’s iPhone case company gains national clientel
Widget Wah has sold more than 15,000 iPhone cases in the last five months.