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Financial Aid Secrets Launched
February 1, 2009
In response to demand for Financial Aid insight, Hebe Ventures has launched MyFinancialAidSecrets.com. This website features information on various aspects of Financial Aid, including FAFSA, Scholarships, Grants, Student Loans and Repayment. It also seeks to provide strategies to students which will maximize Financial Aid eligibility and awards.
Pubular.com Launched
April 16, 2007
After months of development, Pubular is finally open to the public. We created this unique community specifically for aspiring writers. It offers an avenue to publish online, sharing your work and getting noticed. A ratings system helps spotlight truly great writing, while feedback from the network of similar users helps everyone improve. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. We have a slew of great new features in the works.
We invite you to become one of our pioneers. Join now and be one of the select few who can say you were in from the beginning.
[Note: In January 2007, Hebe Ventures assumed control of Pubular and other website from Pubular Ventures]
The following is an article by Pubular Ventures co-founder Ben Goerz
Love Profit: A Student's Business
By Ben Goerz
February 6, 2006
Valentine's Day is fast approaching. People everywhere are scrambling to make preparations for their special someone. Not me. Last week, I had 4,109 special someones.
I am the co-founder of FindFreeLovePoem.com, and I am devoted to bringing love to the masses. So naturally, Valentine's Day has me keyed up. People the world over are looking to me to help them find the right words for the moment, but I’m not worried. It’s my job.
In September, my friend Mark Wood and I founded Pubular Ventures, which owns several Web sites. We were just two SMU students, broke after studying abroad. We managed to start with just $150.
Today, our original investment is multiplying. This is my favorite part of online business. One dollar per day turns into $365 in one year and $1,095 in three. I sleep, it earns. I sit in class, it earns. The idea is simple: create numerous stable sources of profit, and retire before 30.
For now, we are actively developing Web sites. Underpinning all of this are business fundamentals osmosed from years of class. Marketing leads us to the right products. Psychology helps us satisfy people. Economics contributes profit maximization. Finance adds knowledge of valuing money over time. Countless subjects infuse the knowledge that drives our results, which are already fast outpacing the competition. Apparently, degrees are more than expensive pieces of paper.
The biggest problem with knowledge is the need to know more. I check the numbers first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, and a half-dozen times in between. We invented a slew of new formulas, graphs, and metrics. We know that Mac users are disproportionately greater poetry fans. We can predict the most effective time of day to advertise.
But the one thing we don’t know is this: just how big will we be on Valentine's Day? Maybe 10 times normal. Maybe 1,000 times. Most nights, I am hunched over my desk at 2 a.m. working on the answer. I do have a guess, but I’m not telling. You’ll just have to visit and see first-hand.