What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone, know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed.”
Collaborations with Incubators
Connect student entrepreneurs to mentorship, business guidance, and growth support through campus and partner programs.
Build your shop.Be seen.Grow your hustle.
Campus Hustle helps student entrepreneurs create digital shops, get discovered, and grow beyond DMs and word of mouth.
Supported Schools
Howard UniversityLive·Grambling State UniversityLive·Morgan State UniversityComing Soon
Learn MoreStudents are already building businesses through group chats, Cash App, Instagram, and word of mouth. Campus Hustle gives that economy a home.
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Anyone can join Campus Hustle
From fashion and food to tutoring, design, beauty, and services, discover the student entrepreneurs already building around you.
✦ Verified Students Only
Create & publish your shop
To keep the marketplace trusted and student-centered, only verified students can create and publish shops.
Setup & Get Verified
Create your shop in minutes
Build your digital storefront, verify your student status to publish your shop, and start showcasing your products or services. No tech skills required.
Get Discovered
Help Customers Find You
Put your products and services in front of students, alumni, friends, and supporters looking to buy from student-owned businesses.
Grow Your Business
Turn Visibility Into Opportunity
Receive requests, connect with customers, and build a reputation that helps your business grow across campus and beyond.
What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone, know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed.”
Join the student.
entrepreneurship movement.
Create a shop, explore student-owned businesses,
or help bring Campus Hustle to your campus.
From side hustle to fundable business.
Campus Hustle starts with e-commerce. As student entrepreneurs build traction through sales, requests, favorites, reviews, referrals, and customer engagement, we help turn that activity into business credibility. Over time, this traction creates pathways to funding, mentorship, and growth opportunities.
Side Hustle
Storefront
Traction
Funding
Growth
More than a marketplace.
A launchpad for student entrepreneurs
Pathways for Funders & Partners
Use marketplace activity such as sales, reviews, requests, and engagement to identify promising student businesses.
Monthly Pop-Ups & Campus Events
Bring student businesses offline through campus showcases, vendor events, and community activations.
Recognition & Rewards
Celebrate top sellers, rising shops, and high-growth entrepreneurs through badges, leaderboards, and featured spotlights.
Scholarships & Grants
Help student entrepreneurs access grants, sponsorships, and development opportunities as they grow.
Long-Term Post-Graduation Support
Support entrepreneurs beyond campus as they turn side hustles into sustainable businesses.
What students are saying
I posted my shop link in two group chats and had five orders before my next class.
A senior I'd never met booked my tutoring session straight from the app.
I stopped explaining what I sell — people just open my page now.
My game-day pop-up sold out because people found me before they reached the stadium.
My braiding slots fill a week ahead now instead of me chasing DMs.
The reviews did the talking; I barely advertise anymore.
I transferred schools and my shop came with me — same link, new campus.
Alumni started ordering once I shared my page in the group.
It's the first place that treated my side hustle like a real business.