Student entrepreneurs: an eye for the bigger picture

How two students launched a successful company on the back of a final-year art project

Published: 22 October 2006

Unsure of what career he wanted to pursue when he finished university, Dan Glazer was persuaded by an old school friend, James Burke, to set up a business with him before he'd even graduated. "It was over a takeaway," he laughs.

Neither had seen themselves as entrepreneurs, although they did know they didn't want to climb the corporate ladder. Their concept, a revolutionary means of applying imagery to high quality acrylic, has since been hailed as "the next generation of art" and their business, acrylicize, has gone from strength to strength since its launch in September 2003.

Article Length: 858 words (approx.)