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Troy Rhodes Jr., a 22-year-old business administration major at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, is featured in this month’s issue of Inc., a national business magazine based in New York.

Rhodes founded a small online textbook leasing company called MyBookBorrow in 2009. The magazine features his story as a college entrepreneur. He is one of nine college students featured in the story “America’s Coolest College Start-ups 2010.”

The story is available at http://www.inc.com/college/2010/index.html.

More information:
http://www.mybookborrow.com/

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