InCampus.com Social commerce network for college students.
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InCampus.com
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Excerpted from the website:
- inCampus.com provides students the opportunity to post free classifieds to buy, sell, exchange, and rent items. inCampus.com is similar to a physical bulletin board made available for students at campuses to post information and announcements. inCampus.com is neither the publisher nor the speaker of the postings placed on inCampus.com by someone else.
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English
SEATTLE-BASED INCAMPUS LAUNCHES REVOLUTIONARY GATEWAY FOR STUDENT TO STUDENT E-COMMERCE
ABOUT INCAMPUS Conceived in 2004 by visionary and eBay aficionado, Aqib Rasool, and formed as a Seattle-based company, in 2007 by Phuc Vu, Aqib Rasool and Saqib Rasool, inCampus offers students a safe online community to conduct e-commerce. 3,800 universities and community colleges across the nation are represented on the Web site, connecting students who are looking to buy, sell, trade or find anything. In addition to products, the Web site also allows students to find housing, books, jobs and more. Upon inception of the company, inCampus founders dedicated some of their portion of the company’s equity to create the inCampus Foundation. To learn more about inCampus, please visit inCampus.com.
SEATTLE (July 10, 2007) – inCampus, Inc., a Seattle-based company led by an established group of technology veterans looking to promote social and economic change among college students, announces the launch of a new online marketplace, offering a revolutionary gateway for Student-to-Student commerce.3,800 universities and community colleges across the nation are represented on inCampus (www.incampus.com), connecting students who are looking to buy, sell, trade or find anything - from a salsa partner to a blender. In addition to products, the Web site also allows students to find housing, books, jobs and more. The company ultimately plans to connect students across the world.
inCampus co-founder Aqib Rasool conceived the idea as a college student who found that Web sites like eBay and Craigslist were helpful for buying, trading and selling but there was no place to connect with other college students. He saw the potential to connect students from all over the nation looking for anything from housing options to used text books.
Unlike other marketplaces that are crowded with buyers and sellers of all ages and interests, inCampus offers a community-based Web site, developed exclusively for each college campus. As the first e-commerce community specifically created for college students, inCampus is an intersection of social and e-commerce Web sites. The site only features categories specifically of interest to college students ranging from travel, carpool, tickets, roommates and books.
The company’s mission is to empower students around the country through online commerce. To further this mission, inCampus has established the inCampus Foundation, a non-profit organization that was created with a portion of the co-founder’s company equity. As the company grows, the foundation’s funds will grow exponentially, ultimately creating a significant amount of resources that will be used to provide financing programs for college students around the world.
