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persuading their fellow students to turn up at certain bars or clubs on a
certain night of the week. In between classes and regular college life, they
schmoozed with Atlanta club owners, made connections around town and hustled
their way into the high-stakes, cutthroat world of party promoting. They learned
the business from older Emory students, first passing out fliers as freshmen
before moving up the ranks to run the parties. They\'d take home stacks and
stacks of $10 and $20 bills for their trouble - their cut of the cover charge
paid by classmates to get into the places they promoted as hottest place in
town. Now the two, along with current Emory sophomore Jason Schutzbang, hope to
turn their local success into a nationwide Internet phenomena. After months of
planning and two major introduction parties, their new venture,
www.collegetonight, goes live today. It\'s been called Facebook for night owls -
a reference to the hugely popular college Web site used by students around the
nation to post profiles and reconnect with old friends. College Tonight focuses
specifically on the after-hours activities of its online college members,
offering students a way to make their party plans with the click of a mouse.
Suchin drummed up angel investors for the initial startup capital. College
Tonight , which went got a head start at Atlanta colleges in the last two weeks,
already has about 1,000 members, "Our site is not about sitting around and
looking through profiles," Suchin said. "It\'s about encouraging people to go out
and be social." It\'s also about making money. Suchin, a California native, is
quick to rattle off statistics about the untapped college market. College kids
have billions of dollars in disposable income, he said, and everyone is
scrambling for a piece of the pie. "The 18- to 24-year-old crowd is extremely
important to advertisers," said Suchin, 22. "It\'s a huge market." Suchin and
Graham, a New York native who also is 22, recently threw a launch party for the
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and a ball cap, surveyed the party over the pulsing dance music. More than 1,000
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close, sipping drinks. Every person represented a $10 profit for Suchin and
Graham - and the club was at capacity. Just after midnight, hundreds more were
still crushed in a line outside, straining against the ropes, waiting eagerly
for their turn to pay their cover (later upped to $15) and get their chance to
party. Graham, in a pressed button-down shirt, coolly shook hands and directed
people to the club\'s VIP room. In addition to the site, Graham is still running
his club promoting business, MisEdukated Entertainment. The company netted
$100,000 last year. "It\'s crazy," Suchin yelled over the din. "Look at the
people in here." Inside, Schutzbang, the Emory sophomore, grinned and chatted
with friends. Schutzbang, College Tonight \'s chief technology officer, was
recruited by Suchin to run the design portion of the new site after the two met
on campus last year. The 19-year-old Philadelphia native now balances his class
schedule with late-night phone calls to Romania - where the site\'s programmers
are based. "It\'s definitely been a commitment," Schutzbang said. "But it will
all be worth it in the end." Both Suchin and Graham said promoting made them
"financially independent" early on in their college careers. Emory students have
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them where to go. "It\'s about directing the herd," Graham said. "College kids
want to know where to go." The promoting scene - based around three popular
fraternities - was run almost like a Survivor-style club, with students being
cut out of thousand dollar deals if they no longer were necessary for the bottom
line. Suchin and Graham started out working for rival party promoters on campus,
but eventually joined forces as juniors on campus. Now, they\'ve joined together
again - this time as graduates. Neither majored in business at Emory, saying
promoting gave them more of an insight into the real world than Emory\'s highly
ranked Goizueta Business School ever could. Now, they have been invited back to
campus as special guests to speak at the school in November, Suchin said. "It\'s
surreal," he said Friday. Author\'s Resource Box The newly-launched COLLEGE
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individual profiles; a rumors section, developed groups, and even a
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