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Mississippi Seed Fund Award Puts rumie, the College Marketplace, on a National Trajectory

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Tanner McCraney came up with the idea for the rumie mobile app after an uncomfortable experience via Facebook Marketplace. As a freshman, recently dropped off at his Rhodes College dorm room in Memphis by his parents, he looked around and realized he had a problem—his mother had left him way too many lamps.

His starving-student solution? Sell them on Facebook. But after a shady encounter with a “buyer” who wanted to meet in the back of a Walmart parking lot, McCraney started mulling over the idea of a marketplace designed specifically for college students to buy and sell items—clothes, books, electronics, even lamps—to other college students, right there on campus, for a safer transaction.

“I got to thinking, ‘I’m a student, I’m on campus with a lot of other students, and …

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Title: Mississippi Seed Fund Award Puts rumie, the College Marketplace, on a National Trajectory
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Published Date: Wed, 10 May 2023 19:55:38 +0000

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mississippi.org – Ken patterson – 2024-10-16 10:00:00

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mississippi.org – Ken patterson – 2024-09-26 10:00:10

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