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Making Mobile Photo-Sharing Enchanting

Just after midnight on October 6, 2010, Kevin Systrom signed into his Apple App Store control panel. "Here we go," he thought. With a click, Instagram , the photo-sharing app he'd created with Mike Krieger, was open to the world

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Private Jet Service is Rising Above the Competition

Need to get from Aspen , Colorado to Miami? How about Los Angeles to Dubai? If you want to do it in style, the person to call is Adriann Wanner, president and co-founder of evoJets , an upstart private-jet charter company

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Turning College Students Into Entrepreneurs

When Ankur Jain entered Wharton's undergraduate business program at the University of Pennsylvania in 2007, he immediately wanted to start a business. His father, Naveen Jain, the CEO of data company Intelius, told him no.

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Bringing Entrepreneurship to Colleges

Sheena Lindahl and Michael Simmons met their third day of college and started dating on their fourth. Both are business-oriented by nature; Lindahl juggled five jobs to pay for New York University and Simmons ran a Web development shop in high school. "My friend and I made $40,000 our senior year of high school, working 10 hours per week," says Simmons.

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More Than Just an Exercise Class

Want a ballerina body? "Back away from the barre," says Brynn Jinnett, 27, a Harvard University-educated former professional ballerina who danced in the film Black Swan. Jinnett, who'd been dancing since the age of three, was frustrated by the fitness trend of barre method classes.

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From Lobbying to the Politics of Cleavage

When Rochelle Behrens was a lobbyist for a Washington, D.C., public affairs firm, she'd pin her conservative button-down shirts from the inside so they wouldn't gap at the chest. "I was pinning my shirt before work one morning and it was hole poked and wrinkled and I had a flash of inspiration," she recalls.

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Turning Unused Office Space Into State-of-the-Art Meeting Facilities

Two college buddies teamed up to take unused space in office buildings, renovate it, and transform it into off-site meeting destinations. Christopher Kelly and Ryan Simonetti seem like they were destined to be business partners and serial entrepreneurs since the day they met while attending Villanova. Their first business was a party bus service to Philadelphia for Villanova students

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A Marketplace for All Your Design Needs

When business owners want a new logo, website, or graphic design work, it's often an arduous and intimidating process that can involve filtering through vast numbers of freelancers' portfolios. Enter 99designs , a four-year-old online marketplace that is quickly becoming to graphic design what Craigslist is to housing listings

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Optimizing Facebook Ads

When Facebook launched its API in 2007, allowing developers to build games and applications for the social medium, Kristaps Ronka and Hussein Fazal "just started building things for fun." For instance, they built a treasure hunter app and an app to share documents with friends. At the time, Fazal was a software developer for Bell Canada and Ronka was an intern. "We started talking about how to make money off the applications," says Fazal.

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