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Old Hollywood Beauty With Natural Formulas

From the beginning, True You Cosmetics was a labor of love. The cosmetics line was created my Jessica Truesdale, a sociology major at Spelman College who started doing make-up artistry at age nine, and began developing the blueprint for her line in high school.

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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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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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