Posts Tagged ‘GSEA’

Learn the Lyrics To Success: Metro Lyrics’ Founder Talks with TILE

Monday, March 21st, 2011

TILE showed up for part of the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards at the New York Stock Exchange this October, and we met some young folks who made us feel bad about sleeping through college.

Take Milun Tesovic, for example. He wanted a better way to find song lyrics online, so he messed around on his computer for a few hours and – next thing you know – he’s a CEO and winner of the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards. Check him out.

Watch the oh-ficial GSEA 2010 recap video here. To see all our GSEA interviews, click here.

Peter Thomas: The Secret To Basically Everything is Passion

Friday, February 25th, 2011

We found Peter Thomas hanging around at the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards while we were at the New York Stock Exchange this October.

Peter is a really wise and motivational guy. Here he talks about how following your gut (or your passion) is key to living a happy, successful, and prosperous life.

(You can watch the whole GSEA recap video here. To see all of SPEND.GROW.GIVE’s GSEA interviews, click here.)

Michael Caito – The Hungry Entrepreneur

Wednesday, December 29th, 2010

We met Michael Caito at the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards when we visited the NYSE this October. He’s the Chairman of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization, which is the group that created this annual competition. Michael is an entrepreneur himself (as you may have guessed), and he took a moment to tell us what it takes to be successful out there.

Watch the oh-ficial GSEA 2010 recap video here. To see all our GSEA interviews, click here.

College Entrepreneur Kristen Santerian Is Moving [Out]

Saturday, December 11th, 2010

TILE showed up for part of the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards at the New York Stock Exchange this October, and we met some young folks who made us feel bad about sleeping through college.

Kristen Santerian is still in college, and she decided to forgo sleep entirely to start her own competition-crushing moving and storage business called PennMoveOut. She seems to be dealing with the sleep deprivation pretty well to us:

Watch the oh-ficial GSEA 2010 recap video here. To see all our GSEA interviews, click here..

Monsters of Entrepreneurship: Peter Thomas Talks About Giving Back at the Student Entrepreneur Awards

Friday, December 3rd, 2010

We found Peter Thomas hanging around at the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards while we were at the New York Stock Exchange this October. He’s been supporting young people with big ideas for almost a quarter century, and he was happy to take a minute to tell us about the hows and whys of giving back.

Watch the oh-ficial GSEA 2010 recap video here. To see all our GSEA interviews, click here.

Handing Out Money for Profit: Meet Chris Jacobs, Founder of Honest Discounts

Thursday, November 25th, 2010

Chris is another fine lad we met at the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards event at the NYSE. He’s been a business-starting maniac since age nine, but it took him until 2009 to be named Business Week’s Top Young Entrepreneur. In the same year, he was a finalist in the GSEA.

Today he runs a company that provides free discount cards to people without prescription drug insurance, making it more affordable for the underinsured to get the medication they need (and making a profit in the meanwhile). Here’s Chris:

Watch the oh-ficial GSEA 2010 recap video here. To see all our GSEA interviews, click here.

Meet Adam Blake, the Young Prince of Real Estate

Wednesday, November 24th, 2010

TILE showed up for part of the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards at the New York Stock Exchange this October, and we met some young folks who made us feel bad about sleeping through college.

Adam is just one of them. He was THE Global Student Entrepreneur of the Year in 2005, because he figured out how to turn a simple off-campus housing need into a multi-million dollar real estate business.

But… why? Well, we asked him:

Watch the oh-ficial GSEA 2010 recap video here. To see all our GSEA interviews, click here.