You don't have to be an experienced businessman to start a company. Indeed, even college students with little "real-world" experience can come up with the next industry-changing idea (Mark Zuckerberg, anyone?). Check out the latest student-led companies who showed off their ideas today at the DEMO Conference in Santa Clara, Calif.
MyBillRegistry
Many recent college graduates know the joy of having a diploma in their hands -- and the pain of student loans on their backs. MyBillRegistry (whose founder is pictured above) hopes to help alleviate some of that post-graduate debt, by letting students post their financial needs online while they're still students. A student goes the MyBillRegistry website and lists bills, textbook fees, and other burdens. These are then pushed out to individuals who "want to support higher education." Those individuals can then go on and pay those bills directly to the vendor, as opposed to giving a grant to the student himself. The company hopes this will one day help students study more, increase their GPAs, and help make education more accessible.
The Square Foot
current Y Combinator company, is also doing this and it seems almost exactly the same idea.
Tosigram
Vergence Labs
Google's Project Glass made news recently, suggesting that one day soon we would have glasses that allow us to overlay digital information onto our everyday sight. That is, if you are looking at a building that is actually a historical landmark, a popup could automatically feed you information without you even needing to know what you're looking at. Vergence is working on its own virtual reality glasses, that will be both functional and stylist, according to its founders. The company would also like to "turn reality into an app platform," where developers can create applications for the glasses to "intermingle with physical reality."
Beam
Metrify
RentStuff.com
Getable (formerly RentCycle), an Andreessen-Horowitz backed company that provides renters with a SaaS-based inventory management tool, that allows then to populate the Getable website with for-rent items. RentStuff, however, also lets individuals upload items, roping those who just want to make a buck into the business.
Hypemarks
