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Finding Students the Cheapest Textbooks

College professors offer little notice on buying class textbooks, so typically, students have little choice but to buy the books on campus. "[University bookstores] are good at making it easy and being right there," says Richard Mondello, a junior computer science major at Tufts University. "What they're not good at is giving students good prices." In Mondello's first semester at Tufts University in 2008, he spent $190 on a single physics textbook at the campus bookstore

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Simple Ordering for Custom T-shirts

OoShirts was born out of a simple desire for a better, cheaper product. When founder Raymond Lei was in high school he decided it would be a cool idea, as tennis club president, to get shirts made for his team.

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A Messaging System for All Smartphones

Tyler McIntyre got an iPhone in 2009. It didn't change everything, but it did frustrate the University of Miami freshman

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America’s Coolest College Start-ups of 2011

Our third-annual report on America's most innovative college start-ups features an Iowa hacker-turned-bookworm, a Southern California duo hawking fixie bikes, and a St. Louis sociology student with a website for tween girls valued at $15 million

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Inc. 5000 Update: Brewing for Dollars

Greg Koch took his first sip of a craft-brewed beer in 1987. Nine years later, he co-founded, with Steve Wagner, Stone Brewing in Escondido, California

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Editor’s Letter: With a Smile

A reporter from 1010 WINS, a local news-radio station, dropped by the office the other day to interview me about great places to work. She had perused Inc.com and was impressed, she said, with the quality and quantity of articles on the subject

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