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In an interview, KartMe's founder Phil Michaelson talks about his experience as a student entrepreneur at Harvard Business School. You can find the profile at the HARBUS online.

And if you read the issue carefully, you'll see Phil quoted in other articles on whether anyone should become an entrepreneur in this environment (no!) and where to find a great meal in Boston (Craigie on Main).

As a bootstrapped venture, KartMe has little cash to spare on things like an office or copier. So its very thoughtful of the Harvard Business School's Rock Center to accept KartMe into its Venture Creation Program. Selected companies get access to some of the Rock Center's facilities. Additionally, we're being paired with a mentor for business advice and lawyer for legal advice.

Its good to see tuition dollars at work :)

KartMe is now a partner of popular shopping websites. This introduces an important revenue source for KartMe, as well as the potential of conflicts of interest, prompting reflection on what matters to us.

Our mission is to help:
-consumers save time and money
-providers of great online reviews to get an audience

We will be relentless in our pursuit of this mission. We will always provide you with the best information available. Seriously.

At the same time, please understand that, like Google, we will occasionally use advertising to pay the bills. Right now, KartMe receives a commission when you start a transaction with KartMe's links to sponsor merchants like Amazon, Overstock, hotels.com or, endless.com. Regardless of these partnerships, we will always display the lowest price we can find--even if we do not have an agreement with the merchant.

The team behind KartMe is also a user of KartMe. We wouldn't want to see lots of advertising, so we won't show lots of advertising. We wouldn't want to use a busy, cluttered site, so we won't create one. We would only tolerate a small amount of relevant, non-disruptive advertisements (like Google), so that is all we will include. Basically, we're promising to uphold the golden rule.

We value your trust and opinion. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the KartMe team.

Today KartMe will present in the finals of the Princeton Entrepreneur's Network (PrincetonEN) business plan contest, which takes place at their annual conference during Princeton's reunions. To reach the finals, KartMe's business plan passed through two rounds of judging. Phil Michaelson, founder of KartMe, will present while on campus for his 5th reunion.

Thanks to James Gomez, Director of PrincetonEN, and Sabrina Parsons, head of the contest, for their help in putting this exciting event together.