Post by Aggie One on Oct 6, 2014 12:17:54 GMT -5
N.C. A&T students creating online app hubs
By Jonnelle Davis jonnelle.davis@news-record.com | Posted: Monday, October 6, 2014 4:00 am
GREENSBORO — N.C. A&T students Everette Slocum and Neegbeah Reeves don’t hit every party on campus.
But through the website and apps they’ve developed, they do help their fellow students find all the fun going on at A&T.
They did it first with Aggiesland.com, a hub for students to find and post campus events. Then Aggiesland went portable with an app.
Now, Slocum and Reeves, along with two of their friends, have a business in its infancy: Little Brown Box Works. A local investor has even taken interest in their ideas and is helping them launch a new app.
The goal is a big one. Little Brown Box Works wants to give Apple and Samsung a some competition.
“We want to make Little Brown Box Works another tech giant,” said Slocum, a junior from Miami who is studying integrated Internet technologies.
Slocum and Reeves are working with brothers Keenan and Kendrick Smith, also A&T students, on their venture.
The students developed the website Aggiesland.com a couple of years ago, and the app followed last year. They formed Little Brown Box Works over the summer with plans to develop even more apps, including one that they liken to Craigslist.
The budding businessmen have SpongeBob and Squidward — two characters from the popular Nickelodeon cartoon “SpongeBob SquarePants” — to thank for their company’s name. They were inspired by one particular episode.
“It was a very funny, popular episode,” Slocum said.
But the company’s ideas are anything but cartoonish. The name refers to the “idea of anything being possible through strong imagination, dedication and genius being put to use,” according to Slocum.
For the rest of the story:
www.news-record.com/business/n-c-a-t-students-creating-online-app-hubs/article_46be40d8-4d04-11e4-99fe-0017a43b2370.html
By Jonnelle Davis jonnelle.davis@news-record.com | Posted: Monday, October 6, 2014 4:00 am
GREENSBORO — N.C. A&T students Everette Slocum and Neegbeah Reeves don’t hit every party on campus.
But through the website and apps they’ve developed, they do help their fellow students find all the fun going on at A&T.
They did it first with Aggiesland.com, a hub for students to find and post campus events. Then Aggiesland went portable with an app.
Now, Slocum and Reeves, along with two of their friends, have a business in its infancy: Little Brown Box Works. A local investor has even taken interest in their ideas and is helping them launch a new app.
The goal is a big one. Little Brown Box Works wants to give Apple and Samsung a some competition.
“We want to make Little Brown Box Works another tech giant,” said Slocum, a junior from Miami who is studying integrated Internet technologies.
Slocum and Reeves are working with brothers Keenan and Kendrick Smith, also A&T students, on their venture.
The students developed the website Aggiesland.com a couple of years ago, and the app followed last year. They formed Little Brown Box Works over the summer with plans to develop even more apps, including one that they liken to Craigslist.
The budding businessmen have SpongeBob and Squidward — two characters from the popular Nickelodeon cartoon “SpongeBob SquarePants” — to thank for their company’s name. They were inspired by one particular episode.
“It was a very funny, popular episode,” Slocum said.
But the company’s ideas are anything but cartoonish. The name refers to the “idea of anything being possible through strong imagination, dedication and genius being put to use,” according to Slocum.
For the rest of the story:
www.news-record.com/business/n-c-a-t-students-creating-online-app-hubs/article_46be40d8-4d04-11e4-99fe-0017a43b2370.html
