Here's Tom Heath's latest column on Washington's entrepreneurial set: Matt Silverman is a fifth-year student at George Washington University, where he will graduate with a master's degree in information systems this December. He is a Web geek. He gets his news from He is an entrepreneur. Silverman belongs to the school's Web ventures club and sprinkles his conversation with phrases like "social media optimization" and "search engine optimization." He admires Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, as well as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. I wish I had his entrepreneurial drive when I was 22. Silverman has several Web-based ventures, including a site focusing on Chipotle Mexican Grill and another site that aggregates videos. He also earns money designing Web pages for businesses. His sites don't make a ton of money....
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