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April 5, 2021 When Nick Huber ’12 and Dan Hagberg ’12 started a storage business out of their Collegetown basement, they didn’t realize it would change their lives. “At the end of our junior year, during finals week on a whim, Dan and I started driving around, picking up and storing people’s stuff,” Huber said. They used their first profit to pay their rent. Provided Nick Huber ’12, left, and Dan Hagberg ’12 leveraged Cornell’s entrepreneurship ecosystem, including courses at the ILR School and SC Johnson College of Business, to launch their business. By the time of their exit from Storage Squad in January 2021 – sold to the tune of seven figures to a company in the storage container space – the startup was operating on 30 college campuses in 15 cities across nine states.
autoevolution 24 Feb 2021, 18:09 UTC · by 7 photos The custom two-wheeler you see here is a one-man undertaking based on a 1978 Ducati 900GTS. From the factory, Bologna’s creation packs an air-cooled SOHC L-twin colossus that prides itself with two valves per cylinder head and a generous displacement of 864cc. At approximately 7,200 rpm, this piece of Italian machinery will be more than happy to generate as much as 65 hp. The four-stroke engine also produces a torque output of up to 54 pound-feet (73 Nm) at about 4,000 rpm. A five-speed gearbox is tasked with handing the mill’s unforgiving force over to the rear wheel by means of a chain final drive.