Spring Break
Business students tackle first tries in entrepreneurships
Liza Atamy
Issue date: 4/2/08 Section: News
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SJSU students like Gowani can get head starts into their entrepreneurial careers through associations such as Entrepreneurial Society and the Gary J. Sbona Business Honors Program.
Gowani said he found out about Entrepreneurial Society and the Honors Program through friends.
"I've been in business for a long time," Gowani said. "I help manage my parents' businesses, and I was a club promoter for 2-and-a-half years.
"(The society) and the honors program inspired me and made me realize there is more within me than just running my parents' business," he said.
Gowani and his longtime friend and classmate Arya Azimi purchased two-thirds of City Falafel in December 2007.
Azimi, a senior business marketing major, said, "We want to start a chain, so we're working on our second and third location."
Gowani added, "The demand for quality food around SJSU has been growing. "Nothing around here really has the goodness of home-cooked food with fast service."
Azimi was involved in business before his recent purchase with Gowani.
"I started an Internet business, Landholders, about four years ago," he said. "The best thing about having a business and being an entrepreneur is every time I go to class, the material makes so much sense because I can actually apply everything I'm doing."
Fellow society member Timothy Ramon, a senior business management major, said he formed an entertainment services business, the Avila Group, in September 2007.
"I was tired of treating so many opportunities as hobbies," Ramon said. "I knew I had aspirations to pursue entertainment after graduation and wondered how far along I could be in the business if I started early."
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