CIU Today Summer 2015

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ENTREPRENEURS
AMONG US
Entrepreneur: a person who organizes and manages any
enterprise, especially business, usually with considerable
initiative and risk. –
Step up to the counter at the Ram Shack, the CIU student store
and coffee house, and you’ll notice professional displays of various
products including lip balm and colorful note cards. You have to
actually be in the know to realize the lip balm and note cards
were not placed there by national vendors. They are produced
and marketed by ambitious CIU students who not only keep up
their grades, but have created businesses on the side.
“CIU Today” got to know the young ladies behind Tiny Tells
and ShoShana Natural, as well as a student who has a business
meeting your heating and air condition needs.
Meet the entrepreneurs among us at CIU.
Student entrepreneurs
at the Ram Shack.
(Left to right) Cousins
Suzanna Mitchell
and Sarah Bateman
display their BALMble
Bee Lip Balm while
Ram Shack Manager
Kathy Weathersby
and Christy Rutt hold
samples of Rutt’s “Tiny
Tells” messages. Both
products are available
at the Ram Shack, the
on-campus CIU store.
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