Jason Shah - February 9, 2011 from Lowell Student Speeches on Vimeo.
Jason is the founder of INeedAPencil.com.
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Showing posts with label Jason Shah. Show all posts
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Friday, July 16, 2010
VH1 Do Something Awards airs live Mon Night 9pm EST
Tune into VH1 at 9pm EST next Monday, July 19 for the Do Something Awards. Help Do Something recognize and celebrate a new generation of world changers. They'll be honoring five individuals under the age of 25 for their commitment to social change.
Check out the 5 finalists. I voted for Jessica Posner on the Do Something website. While not one of the top 5, I love that Sparkseed's Jason Shah was one of the 2010 Do Something Awards finalists!
The June 19 awards show will be hosted by Jane Lynch of Glee, and will feature performances by Natasha Bedingfield, Lifehouse and Travie McCoy featuring Bruno Mars.
Here's the Do Something Awards promo video featuring Jane Lynch:
Check out the 5 finalists. I voted for Jessica Posner on the Do Something website. While not one of the top 5, I love that Sparkseed's Jason Shah was one of the 2010 Do Something Awards finalists!
The June 19 awards show will be hosted by Jane Lynch of Glee, and will feature performances by Natasha Bedingfield, Lifehouse and Travie McCoy featuring Bruno Mars.
Here's the Do Something Awards promo video featuring Jane Lynch:
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Young Entrepreneurs Making College More Attainable & Affordable
I found these guys on Inc. Magazine's website. I was tipped off by Fast Company via Twitter:)
photo: Jason Shah
A junior at Harvard University, Jason Shah launched his SAT prep site INeedAPencil.com in 2006 when he was still in high school. The free site offers low-income students an alternative to pricier courses such as those at Kaplan and The Princeton Review. Students can log on to the site and choose from more than 60 lessons in math, reading, and writing, many of which use pop-culture and sports references to liven up the material. It's not just a gimmick -- a random sampling of the site's users showed an average improvement of 202 points on their SAT scores. INeedAPencil.com earns most of its revenue by generating leads for colleges and universities eager to recruit the site's 30,000 users, who can opt in to receive information about different schools.
Jason is a Sparkseed Innovator. For more info about Sparkseed see this previous blog post.
photo: Troy Rhodes
When Troy Rhodes, a junior at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, sold his college textbooks at the end of the spring 2008 semester, he received $18 -- for books that cost him $560 just a few months earlier. There had to be an alternative way, he thought. So over the next year, he developed MyBookBorrow.com, which allows students anywhere to save on textbooks by renting instead of buying. When a student requests a textbook, Rhodes (or one of the three friends who assist him) finds a used copy from one of the two textbook distributors that are his suppliers. He then provides a rental quote (after checking on competitors' rental prices and Amazon's purchase price) to the student. If the student agrees to the price, Rhodes buys the book and has the supplier ship it directly to the customer. When the semester ends, the customer ships the book back to Rhodes, who keeps his stock in a $22-a-month storage space.
photo: Jason Shah
A junior at Harvard University, Jason Shah launched his SAT prep site INeedAPencil.com in 2006 when he was still in high school. The free site offers low-income students an alternative to pricier courses such as those at Kaplan and The Princeton Review. Students can log on to the site and choose from more than 60 lessons in math, reading, and writing, many of which use pop-culture and sports references to liven up the material. It's not just a gimmick -- a random sampling of the site's users showed an average improvement of 202 points on their SAT scores. INeedAPencil.com earns most of its revenue by generating leads for colleges and universities eager to recruit the site's 30,000 users, who can opt in to receive information about different schools.
Jason is a Sparkseed Innovator. For more info about Sparkseed see this previous blog post.
photo: Troy Rhodes
When Troy Rhodes, a junior at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, sold his college textbooks at the end of the spring 2008 semester, he received $18 -- for books that cost him $560 just a few months earlier. There had to be an alternative way, he thought. So over the next year, he developed MyBookBorrow.com, which allows students anywhere to save on textbooks by renting instead of buying. When a student requests a textbook, Rhodes (or one of the three friends who assist him) finds a used copy from one of the two textbook distributors that are his suppliers. He then provides a rental quote (after checking on competitors' rental prices and Amazon's purchase price) to the student. If the student agrees to the price, Rhodes buys the book and has the supplier ship it directly to the customer. When the semester ends, the customer ships the book back to Rhodes, who keeps his stock in a $22-a-month storage space.
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