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College Entrepreneur Creates Digital Care Package Business Regaalo, a web service that allows parents to send gifts to students, applies modern technology to an old-fashioned concept.

By Jodi Helmer

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She's got a gift: Regaalo's Jessica Streitmater.
She's got a gift: Regaalo's Jessica Streitmater.
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When Jessica Streitmater was attending the University of New Hampshire, her mom would send care packages of goodies with notes tucked inside as a pick-me-up during finals. "It was such a great day to get a care package in my mailbox and open it up and see all the little surprises," she recalls.

The business management and entrepreneurship major decided to apply modern technology to the old-fashioned concept. With some classmates, she started Regaalo, a web service that allows parents to send gifts to students.