The Entrepreneurial Mind

The students over at reverb tell the inside story of their opening night in this post. Congratulations!

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Here is the students' account of the pre-opening activities over at reverb.

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Well, its time for the entrepreneurs at reverb to move in to there new space.

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The reverbmedia crew is busy doing some space planning and trying to figure out the best way to build inventory in this posting.

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Here is the next installment from our students starting up their business. After successfully bidding on E-Bay, they now are waiting for the truck to arrive with their equipment being shipped from Colorado. Catch the entire reverb story at this link.

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Here is the second installment from our student entrepreneurs:

After deciding on a name and color scheme for reverbmedia, we turned our attention to one of the most important aspects of any business?the equipment to run it. The kinds of equipment we would require could easily eat up our startup budget, so we began brainstorming ways to acquire it cheaper. We thought of contacting various warehouses and CD stores that had recently gone out of business, but pinpointing those proved to be harder than we expected. Several members suggested scouring the internet for equipment. One that was mentioned was E-bay.

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Posted by Jeff Cornwall at 06:02 PM | Permalink

I have had the pleasure to work with a group of staff, faculty and students to plan a new program here at Belmont to enhance the study of entrepreneurship. The university has generously provided us with three prime retail spaces in our new Curb Center building. One space will open this Friday. It will house Boulevard Art and Design, which is a cooperative program with our Art Department. It will feature a retail art gallery and a graphic design business. The second business, opening around March 1st, will be reverb media. reverb will feature new and used CD's and DVD's, with a focus on music produced and/or performed by Belmont students and alumni (which includes Trisha Yearwood and Brad Paisley, just to name two). The students launding this business have decided to chronicle their story for you in my blog site. Click on the "Continue reading..." below to see their first installment.

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