{"id":63799,"date":"2017-06-08T13:38:37","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T18:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=63799"},"modified":"2017-06-08T13:38:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T18:38:37","slug":"evanston-high-school-student-fosters-entrepreneurial-spirit-with-chorebug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/evanston-high-school-student-fosters-entrepreneurial-spirit-with-chorebug\/","title":{"rendered":"Evanston High School Student fosters entrepreneurial spirit with ChoreBug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Mike Davis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcap\">Avante Price smiles when classmates call him &#8220;ChoreBug.&#8221; Being a 16-year-old with his very own business, Price understands the importance of self-promotion.<\/p>\n<p>The Evanston High School junior and founder of ChoreBug, a service that takes odd jobs off the to-do list, grew from a small landscaping business. Now, Price has 25 contracted workers and is operating almost daily in Evanston.<\/p>\n<p>ChoreBug offers services from yard work, cleaning, moving, and even babysitting, all for $25 and under. In the future, Price hopes to expand outside Evanston.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Evanston High School Student fosters entrepreneurial spirit with ChoreBug\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/220541579?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Example:  <\/p>\n<div class=\"featurecaption\"> Photo at top: ChoreBug helps trim the to-do list.(Mike Davis\/MEDILL)<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mike Davis Avante Price smiles when classmates call him &#8220;ChoreBug.&#8221; Being a 16-year-old with his very own business, Price understands the importance of self-promotion. 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