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PBS broadcast the latest edition of FRONTLINE/World tonight and one feature was right up College Mogul's alley.

In "Egypt: Middle East, Inc.," you'll see how Soraya Salti, is turning on Egypt's youth to entrepreneurship.

“Either these youth become a burden on our economies or they become an engine of growth and prosperity,” says Salti.

"We want to instill in them the entrepreneurial spirit and the entrepreneurial skill-set so that they can create their employment opportunity. We want to create excitement. And what's the best thing to do, more than create a competition for entrepreneurs?”

Watch the full 20-minute video on the FRONTLINE/World Web site.

Interesting: LA Observed reported that University of Chicago freshman Emmett Rensin and Alex Aciman have sold "Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books, Now Presented in Twenty Tweets or Less" (for an undisclosed amount via agent Brian DeFiore) to book publisher Penguin Group. (You can read the post on LA Observed.)

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Burned out?

Give your brain a boost with this charged roundup of a week's worth of business-building stories and advice from around the Web:
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(Source: Bloomberg via YouTube)

Related links:

• Better World Books
• Notre Dame Entrepreneurship Society

You might be an active Facebook user, but how much do you really know about how this Harvard-born company?

With the new book "The Accidental Billionaires," Ben Mezrich goes behind the headlines and hype around the founding of Facebook.

Over at Amazon.com, Kevin Spacey offers up his take on the book:

"Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were two geeky, socially awkward Harvard undergrads who wanted nothing more than to be cool. While Eduardo chose the more straightforward path of trying to gain acceptance into one of the school's ultra-posh, semi-secret Final Clubs, Mark used his computer skills by hacking into Harvard's computers, pulling up all the pictures of every girl on campus to create a sort of 'hot-or-not' site exclusive to Harvard. Though the prank nearly got Mark kicked out of college, he and Eduardo realized that they were on to something big. Thus, the initial concept of Facebook was born; what happened next, however, was right out of a Hollywood thriller."

For Spacey's full review and for more on this book (available July 14), check out the "Accidental Billionaires" page on Amazon.

Some things just work well together. Picture a burger with a side of fries or Adobe and Macromedia. Now, how about T-shirts and tattoos?

In the summer of 2007, soon after graduating from Boston University with a degree in film production, Jeremy Parker joined forces with his cousin Ben Parker -- at the time, a junior at the University of Maryland -- to the start a business. That business: a high-end tattoo-influenced T-shirt company called Tees and Tats.

In April, Tees and Tats was a finalist in the University of Maryland’s fourth annual business competition, the "Cupid's Cup."

With an eight-person staff, overseas manufacturing and growing retail network, Tees and Tats is on the move.

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Guy Kawasaki (Garage Technology Ventures) recently spoke at a University of Pennsylvania technology conference. The title of his presentation: "The Art of Innovation.”

The latest edition of Knowledge@Wharton states this “amounted to a 10-point manifesto on how to make something of value for customers.”

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Bloomberg reported today that Zipcar "is gearing up to publicly sell shares in 2010," just as it is on track to make its first profit next quarter.

In 2000, Zipcar -- now the world’s largest car-sharing company -- got up and running with one car to serve Boston's thriving college community. The company was founded by Robin Chase, an MIT Sloan grad and Antje Danielson, who was a PhD post-doc at Harvard.Continue Reading...

Jack Dorsey, co-founder and chairman of Twitter was interviewed by Liz Claman on Fox Business this afternoon.

At the end of the interview, Dorsey, a New York University dropout (one semester short of graduating), summed up what it really takes to start a company:Continue Reading...