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Bismarck, N.D., College Student Hits Big Time with Sports Shoe Invention.

By Mark Hanson, The Bismarck, N.D., Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Feb. 15--The wave Matt Stucke was riding couldn't have been more perfect. It was the wave any budding entrepreneur would love to catch. The University of Mary senior said it was like nothing could go wrong.

But then it changed. The wave died out and it felt as if nothing was going to happen. The wave of emotion took another turn, though, when Stucke took a trip to Florida. Now he has three companies looking at marketing a product he invented, and he received a couple of job

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