Help Pay For College

Mr. Evan Godwin ”only 19 years old”.

For more information go to: http://evangodwinphotography.com/

Evan has always had a passion for photography, and an even larger passion for work. The minute he turned 16 his father made sure that he found a job to pay for his cell phone, car insurance, and the social expenses of high school. When he came to college at SMU, he wanted to do something bigger than the part time jobs provided on campus. Having an entrepreneurial spirit by nature, all he needed was an idea. His senior trip to Alaska in June of 2008 had given him the inspiration.

Evan went out on his own and started Evan Godwin Photography and was fortunate enough to shoot over 40 weddings between April and December of 2009, along with holding numerous accounts with restaurants and companies for product photography, as well as numerous portrait sessions for individuals and families.

This Summer he will be rolling out a new company, Paradigm Wedding Photography, which focuses strictly on upscale, artisan wedding photography. His goal is to open a studio after college and hope to create a completely self-running company while he furthers his pursuit in Finance post graduation.

Business Ideas for College:

There are 100’s of ideas about how to make money while still in college. The “Help Pay For College Info” blog was created to help you look at different ideas. This blog will have several articles about people that started their business from their dorm (coming this week so stop back by). We hope you can find a way to create some money to help pay for college.

Listed below is a few of the TOP ways you can make some extra money while still in college. Click on each link and see which one might be a fit for you.

Tutoring: If you already have an Associate’s degree or certification of some kind, you can tutor other college students who need help in that area. You don’t have to have a degree or certification, though; you can tutor in areas that you are just naturally good at. Spread the word, and I’m sure during finals and mid- terms other students will be flocking to your door for help. Get suggestions on how to become a tutor.
E-Commerce Business Center: There is a new trend in the market place that is creating the largest market shift in history. You could have a chance to be in front of that shift and capitalize on making money doing what a lot of people are already doing. Research for yourself at Ecommerce Business Center.
Editing: If you’re an English major or you’re just good at editing papers, you may want to charge students to read and edit their term papers. Don’t write the papers, just proof read and edit them. Click here to see how.
Computer Support: If you’re good with computers, you may want to offer services to fix basic computer problems. Do manual updates or downloads. Set up virus protection. Go to home business about.
Freelance: You may consider signing up to various websites such as HubPages, Squidoo, and Associated Content, to write articles that interest you. Make sure to have a Google Adsense account as well as Amazon and Ebay for websites that allow you to use your own IDs, such as HubPages. Squidoo splits the profits with you, so you don’t need to sign up for other programs, as they’ll pay you the earnings. Associated Content pays you upfront for some submissions and monthly for your performance.
The Ultimate Online Business: Millions of dollars have been spent developing the perfect e-commerce business. Now it is available and you can capitalize on this new trend. We all know that e-commerce is the next big trend in business. But, starting your own online business is costly, full of hassles, and difficult to market. Not anymore. For more information click perfect online business!

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Carl Randolph

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College Business Plans that Made the Grade

Find out how these entrepreneurs took their business plans from the classroom to the real world.

Student Ian Leopold was just one class away from graduating. That’s when his economics professor failed his business plan assignment.

It was 1986, and student Ian Leopold was just one class away from graduating. That’s when his economics professor failed his business plan assignment.

Other students may have taken the failing grade as a sign the plan wasn’t viable. But not Leopold. “If he hadn’t failed me, it’s very possible I wouldn’t have continued with my plan,” says Leopold, now 43. “Part of me wanted to prove him wrong. I did.” Leopold, forced to stay at Hobart that summer, earned his degree and in his spare time turned his business plan into a reality, entering Northwestern’s Kellogg School in the fall. On the side, he was making thousands of dollars each week putting together ads for his Unofficial Student Guide. In five years, Leopold had turned his failed assignment into a successful company with nearly $3 million in revenue.

For recent college grads Alex Farkas and Greg Rosborough, both 24 years old, and Stephen Tanenbaum, 25, their $20,000 in competition winnings, combined with an additional $80,000 contributed from friends and family, helped them launch their business plan

For recent college grads Alex Farkas and Greg Rosborough, both 24 years old, and Stephen Tanenbaum, 25, their $20,000 in competition winnings, combined with an additional $80,000 contributed from friends and family, helped them launch their business plan idea, Ugallery.com, in October of last year. The University of Arizona graduates attended three competitions during their senior year, including one in Canada. “I think we succeeded in the business plan competitions because our business model was very realistic,” says Tanenbaum.

The business plan developed by 26-year-old Dee Murthy and 27-year-old Andres Izquieta also won an award.

The business plan developed by 26-year-old Dee Murthy and 27-year-old Andres Izquieta also won an award. But in place of thousands of dollars in prize money from the University of Southern California, which hosted the competition, Five Four Clothing had something else working in its favor: the right location and the right timing. Los Angeles proved to be the ideal location for the business partners to launch their urban, hip men’s line. Murthy says his friends started wearing Five Four to local clubs, and soon they were in talks with hot boutiques like Fred Segal. This year, USC entrepreneurship program grads Izquieta and Murthy are projecting $11 million in sales.

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Carl Randolph

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More Well-Known Businesses Started by College Students:

In addition to Microsoft, Dell, Napster, Netscape, FedEx, Apple, Tripod, and TheGlobe.com, here are some other enterprises started by college entrepreneurs:

Virante, “Web marketing services for emerging growth and high potential companies,” started by Ryan Allis when he was in high school and revived when he was a student at the University of North Carolina.
Mistico Jewelry, started by Missy Fine in high school and continued when she went to college at Babson College, Babson Park, MA.
Plaxo, started by Todd Masonis and Cameron Ring when Ring was working on his master’s degree. Plaxo keeps people connected by solving the problem of out-of-date contact information.
CertificateSwap.com, founded by Cameron Johnson when he was a 19-year-old student at Virginia Tech and later sold. Johnson then started EMazingSites.com, a search-engine optimization site.
Dream On Information Technology, Inc., founded by University of Central Florida students Alex Volin and Keith Rogers, offering Web design and technical outsourcing.
GoSMG.com, started by Jason Smith while he was a student at Cypress College, is a fundraising product and program distributor.
TicketAdvantage, founded by Adam Witty when he was a senior at Clemson University, provides transactions for ticket buyers and ticket sellers to sports and entertainment events around the world.
Inventables, which creates “how-to” materials for entrepreneurs, inventors, and engineers, is actually the second company that Zach Kaplan and Keith Schacht started as students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Kaplan, a mechanical engineering major, and Schacht, a computer science major, joined Lehigh University marketing and finance major Brian Witlin, in founding Lever Works, Inc, an Internet applications development company that the trio sold to e-learning company Leo Media, Inc.
College Prowler, founded as a class project by Luke Skurman as a student at Carnegie Mellon University, offers guides to the top 200 colleges.
Axon Sleep Research Laboratories was hatched when Brown University student Samee McDannel told a friend after a difficult exam that a groggy morning had made her test go poorly. From this conversation sprung the inspiration of an alarm clock, SleepSmart, that would guarantee the end of sleepy, bleary-eyed mornings by monitoring a user’s sleep cycle. Business-oriented Brown student Eric Shashoua soon joined Samee. In 2003, Axon Labs won the Brown University Entrepreneurship Program Elevator Speech competition after pitching their SleepSmart product.
AllDorm Inc., a college furnishings manufacturer, was started by Ryan Garman, Kevon Saber, Chad Arimura, Ivan Dwyer, who met at Santa Clara University.