Inside a College Entrepreneur's Unique Coat Check BusinessA stolen jacket leads to a big business for an Indiana University grad.

On a cold night in 2010,Indiana Universitysenior Derek Pacqué tucked his coat into a dark corner of a nightclub instead of wearing it on the dance floor. When he went to retrieve it later, it was gone.

Pacqué, an entrepreneurship student, never did find his coat. But he did find the inspiration to start a business. "None of the bars in town had a coat check, so I had to wear a coat around all night or leave it at home and freeze," he recalls. "I thought, There has to be a way to deal with this problem."