STARKVILLE -- One day in November, while Mississippi State University student Daniel Payne was cruising Facebook, he came across a group called Young Entrepreneurs.
He looked at the long list of members and noticed there was only one MSU student, a guy named Eric Hill.
Payne had had a lawn-mowing business back in his high school days in Ocean Springs. Hill had been running businesses, mostly computer-related, since he was 10, growing up near Monroe, La.
Payne added Hill as a Facebook friend.
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