(Fratrepreneur — June 2010. CHICAGO) On a windy Friday afternoon I met up with Craig Palm (aka Na Palm) outside of his Michigan Avenue Studio. This was this last weekend in Chicago before going out to the West Coast to focus on recording tracks for his debut mixtape – Dirty Girls Like Dirty Beats. If [...]

During my daily trolling of news media, I encountered an interesting article on the NYTimes – Entering a Sorority’s Forbidden Precincts. Naturally, I had to investigate. Turns out Disney plans to buy Playdom, the maker of the Facebook social game Sorority Life (among others). This is the game where you buy your boyfriend based on [...]

For reasons involving “real” jobs, a life changing trip to Ibiza, various golf & beach related frativities, as well as the constant pursuit of other  ventures (YoungProfreshional  + ChicagoBro, stay tuned…) we have been slacking on The Fratrepreneur. Sorry for partying. Now we’re back, and want to give some love out to “Making Moves”, a [...]

Entrepreneur.com – “It ultimately comes down to that big idea you’ve been batting around. All you need to do is tell us your inspiration for it, what makes it viable and different from the millions of ideas already out there, and where you see it going. In return we’ll show the winner $5,000 in seed [...]

“CampusProtein was started by two Greek sophomores at Indiana University — Russell Saks and Mike Kunz, realized that the biggest demographic for weightlifting supplements (college students), had the hardest time getting the supplements. We were fed up with the 200% markups that GNC and Vitaminshoppe put in their stores. The alternative of ordering from online [...]

Pat Daley is author of both the book, The Fraternity Leader, and the website The Fraternity Advisor. He was his university, chapter and national fraternity man of the year in 2000. He was a two year chapter president and was his university’s IFC president. We’re delighted to have him guest blog for us, as his [...]

Payscale.com – “Toga! Toga! Toga! Find out if universities with a reputation for party-prone students prepare them for the real world. We dug into the Princeton Review’s “Top 20 Party Schools” list to see if party school grads keep the party going after graduation or buckle down and start making the big bucks.” Top Party [...]

Greek numbers are down nationwide. Universities donʼt want the risk and could use the real estate to repurpose as new offices or classrooms as more and more kids go to college. This isnʼt anything new (see: Animal House, Old School, or any movie involving frats). When chapters do risk losing their charter from poor recruitment [...]

Walking through the University of Chicago Medical School Campus, I was nostalgic about college. I was meeting my buddy Max Beatty for a Creative Entrepreneurship Workshop organized my Minogi and the University of Illinois iFoundry. The atmosphere was relaxed and encouraging – the entrepreneurs in the room kept a chill ambiance with intriguing explanations of [...]

So this intriguing (hilarious) piece hit my work inbox about a week ago. While pretending to listen to a tedious client mandated conference call, I let out a chuckle as I briefly read through it. As I returned to it later that day, it made me think… Am I wasting away my youth as the [...]