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N.C. college sophomore brings in millions recycling phones
Lee Lowden finishes up classes at Wake Forest University by early afternoon each day and heads to the campus mailroom, where he signs off on dozens of packages that hold used iPhones and BlackBerry devices. Lowden started his Buyback Boss smartphone recycling business last August and has since purchased 3,000 old phones in this country and sold them to buyers overseas. He’ll top $1.5 million in revenue this yea
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Eighth Annual Excellence in Entrepreneurship Award Recipients
Each year in the spring, we hold an annual Excellence in Entrepreneurship Awards Banquet. This is an invitation-only banquet co-hosted by the Entrepreneurship Society and the Center for Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship and was created to celebrate the achievements of students, faculty, staff and an entrepreneurial member of the Wake Forest community. This year the Annual Banquet was held on
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BE FEARLESS: Failures and Potholes Pave the Pathway to Success
“To tackle today’s big and ever-changing social challenges; we have to take risks, be bold, and fail forward. We have to Be Fearless.”
–The Case Foundation
These are the wise words of key note speaker and The Excellence in Entrepreneurship Award recipient, Jean Case, spoken at the Eighth Annual Excellence in Entrepreneurship Awards Banquet, which was held on April 11, 2013 in the Magnol
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i2i Competition Winners Announced
On April 7, 2013, student teams gathered on the Reynolda Patio to compete in the annual Inspiration to Innovation (i2i) Competition, which encourages all participants to solve real world problems in both an imaginative and innovative way. This year the competition focused on wooden pallet waste because of the recent ban of wooden pallets from all general landfills by the North Carolina Department of Environment and N
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