ALL POSTS BY: Adam Albright

Adam Albright is a second year MBA and co-founder of rentstuff.com. (www.about.me/adamalbright | )

Have you ever wanted to try something new on the weekend, like go camping or for a bike ride? As a student, opportunities such as these can be limited by minimal space to store gear or insufficient money to purchase equipment.

This problem led my co-founders and I (Adam Albright) to launch Rentstuff.com, a person-to-person rental marketplace that allows individuals and rental businesses to post items for rent. Now you can jump on RentStuff.com and rent that tent, or bike, or guitar that you want to try out. If you want to earn some extra cash, you can also lend out your stuff to others through our convenient, secure system.

Owen has been key in helping me launch this business. While being a student and entrepreneur can be extremely busy, there are some definite perks. Here are the ways Owen has helped me along the way:

- The Summer Business Plan Competition: In this annual competition students present business plans and the winner is awarded a grant to use for launching the start-up. Pitching RentStuff.com was a great experience, and the grant money was extremely helpful as we worked towards our launch in August 2011.