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Show • f - • . , . ^Monday, April 4,2005 The Signpost Page 6 ' Local entrepreneur center to open 2006 By KERRY SCOTT correspondent | The Signpost On May 5, a ground breaking will take place on the Davis Applied Technical Center campus located at 550 East 300 South, Kaysville, Utah, for a new Entrepreneur Center. Franciska Meacham, marketing director and executive director for nonprofit foundations at the DATC, said the center is for people who are looking to start their own business or for those who have already started a business that has been running for five years or less. The center was funded completely through private donations. Its doors are open to the entire community. The eligibility criteria are still being developed. "An advisory committee has been put together to determine who is eligible," Meacham said. Anyone interested can fill out an application and the committee will look it over. A secretary, computer and and later be hired employees, he conference room will be available to added. "I think it's great. Northern small-business owners. According to Bouwhuis, most small Utah needs more resources "(There will be) a lot of access to learn, businesses fail even if they have a good how to make a business, and resources idea because owners don't have the for entrepreneur-minded to fill in the funding or the gap that $ people." know-how they can't do to keep it themselves," - Brian McDonald, going. Meacham WSU Entrepreneur Association said. T h e president center According will be to Michael APPLIED TECHNOLOGY named in Bouwhuis, honor of president of The idea for an entrepreneur center Roy W. and Elizabeth E. Simmons. was under consideration for a number the DATC, there will also be an adviser Roy Simmons is the founder of Zions of years. to teach accounting and bookkeeping. Bank. A wall within the building will Kent Sulser, Davis County economic According to Sulser, 70 percent of be dedicated to them and called the developer, said the center is a nice businesses developed at the center are learning wall. existing businesses. Only 20 will be avenue for students. "I think it's great," said Brian "It will give (students) hands-on generated from an incubator. McDonald, president of the Weber State Bouwhuis said the purpose of the experience working in business," Entrepreneur Association. "Northern DATC is to train people and to place Sulser said. Utah needs more resources for Meacham said the center will be an them into jobs. He said he would like to entrepreneur-minded people." actual place of business. The spaces see the center become a focal point of The building is scheduled for will be rented out to the small-business Davis County. The goal of the center in terms completion in early 2006. owners. "Just using the building like you were of the DATC students is to provide You can leave a message for reporter Kerry opportunity to work for businesses Scott by calling 626-7624. leasing it out," she said. ^r DAVIS Students can get rich quick Make-money Web sites are make-money frauds By SCOTT ALLEN sr. business writer The Signpost People attend college for two reasons: English majors came here for the love of letters, the power of prose and the fun of phonics. The others registered so one day they may become so wealthy they can hire Martha Stewart to clean their toilets. I fall into the latter category and, like most members of the MTV generation, the idea of hard work and sacrifice is as appealing as watching CSPAN. Fortunately, newspapers run ads for business opportunities that guarantee fabulous wealth for a small investment, usually ranging from $200 to your everlasting soul. One ad had a Web address, wepromisethis companyislegitamateandwe won't stealyourmoney.com/ winkwink/haha_youfoofs. I went straight to the site, which featured happy people with testimonials verifying the effectiveness of their "scientifically proven financial Success Program." Phyllis Hoobermeyer, of Whiskeyville, Tenn., said, "Before I tried the Success Program 1 was living in a 1962 Pontiac, my husband left me for his cousin, and the state took my kids after 1 tried to Weber S t a t i i University Housing & R< rsidence Lif« or not trade my son for Lortabs, The Web site also provided which is totally unfair. I an income calculator based mean, let's face it, he would on the number of people have been better off with that you can expect to enroll and Filipino drug dealer than with how many they'll sign up. me. But thanks to the Success My pyramid wouldn't be very Program I earn $5,000 every 20 deep, because all my friends minutes and Martha Stewart are not brain dead, and the cleans my toilet and my rain chances of them joining are gutters. minuscule. Based on those Convinced by Ms. figures, I could expect an Hoobermeyer's touching story, average monthly income I delved further into the site. of $2.43. For that money, I Apparently, the Success Program couldn't hire M.C. Hammer, is what they call a pyramid let alone Martha Stewart. scheme. All I would have to do The next ad in the classifieds is convince several people to was for vending machines. sign up; they do the same, and I called the number and a so on until thousands of people certified vending specialist gave are under me, each giving me a me the run-down: People put share of their profits. The great money in the vending machines part is everybody in the pyramid and in return they get stale makes money, except for the M&M's from the Eisenhower guys at the bottom. They really administration, back when the get shafted. only color was brown. r Fair's Jewelry "FIND the ROCK" contest V FREE 3/8 Ct. DIAMOND $1400 retail Value "That's unconscionable!" I said. "At least offer more colors. How do you sleep at night?" "On a king-size feather mattress with my trophy wife who stays with me as long as the quarters keep coming," the specialist said. He went on to say that each machine brings in about two quarters per day. Two quarters! I could make more than that by breaking into my friends' houses and searching their sofa cushions. I would probably find better candy there, too. After these experiences I realized if I want to make it through life, I have to buckle down and study hard; that's the American way! 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