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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

Ahlberg founded Spotfire (acquired by Tibco) based on his research on information visualization at the University of Maryland under the guidance of Ben Shneiderman. Mr. Ahlberg earned his doctorate from Chalmers University of Technology and has worked as a visiting researcher at the University of Maryland.

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Virtual worlds – then, now and next

VC Cafe

A good example of this is Fortnite and in all likelihood also the thought behind facebook’s acquisition of Oculus Rift. . Virtual wedding in Animal Crossing – Janna and Stefan, from Maryland, US, walked down the aisle and made vows during the ceremony. Getting there – The Metaverse.

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Fly High

Steve Blank

The next military college was the Naval Academy in Annapolis Maryland, set up in 1845 to train Navy officers. The oldest is the Army’s U.S. Military Academy at West Point in New York, founded in 1802 to educate Army officers. The Coast Guard Academy opened in New London Connecticut in 1876. The Air Force, originally part of the U.S.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

In early 2011 an acquisition by a Fortune 500 company fell apart. But the company began to struggle after its relationship with Yahoo Inc. fell apart early that year, Mr. Dreymann says. A Yahoo spokeswoman declined to comment. Soon after, Mr. Dreymann turned over his Goodmail keys to a corporate liquidator. California. Connecticut.

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Mark Zuckerberg Drops in on #StartupTribe | Student Entrepreneurs Need Role Models

Campus Entrepreneurship

Kevin Plank (founder of Under Armour) has been very active with Maryland’s student entrepreneurs. Did he hire anyone or find any acquisitions targets? Just saw that Mark Zuckerberg dropped in on an HBS Startuptribe meeting. Anyone want to fill us in on what Mr. Zuckerberg said? Was their q & a? Please share.

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#GrabYourWallet Urges Consumers to Vote With Their Dollars, Not Just Their Ballots

Hunter Walker

Now it’s moving into groceries with the Whole Foods acquisition. Alec Ross, Candidate for Governor of Maryland. .’ I’m not comfortable with the vacuum of accountability that mindset creates. It’s particularly worrisome to me when Amazon is so big and dominating so many industries. I hope it will.

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The Coming Zombie Startup Apocalypse

This is going to be BIG.

A paper by two University of Maryland researchers who arrived at that number concluded the following: ".Observed Instead of paid acquisition fueling an up and to the right hockey stick, these companies would grow organically. That would actually be pretty good for the talent market--it would bring salaries back down to normal.