Steve Blank
DECEMBER 10, 2014
The University of Maryland is now integrating the Lean LaunchPad ® into standard innovation and entrepreneurship courses across all 12 colleges within the University. Over 44 classes have embedded the business model canvas and/or Customer Discovery including a year-long course taken by every single one of its bioengineering majors.
Campus Entrepreneurship
APRIL 11, 2012
7 years ago I wrote a paper that included the case of Wisconsin as the first state hosting a business plan competition. Today, I learned via a student @georgemasonU that Governor Martin O’Malley of Maryland was hosting a business plan contest on Pinterest. via 2012 Maryland Pinterest Pitch Contest.
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Campus Entrepreneurship
OCTOBER 18, 2010
contest for students at the University of Maryland. By Priya Kumar : Last semester, University of Maryland students received academic credit for creating iPhone apps. Through the program, the university has given pilot groups of freshmen an iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad and helped develop a new cell phone emergency alert system.
Campus Entrepreneurship
NOVEMBER 10, 2011
Great story of how entrepreneur Kris Appel used business plan contests to get her firm (Encore Path) off the ground. From Entrepreneur Magazine: In 2006, I got into ACTiVATE, a women’s entrepreneurship training program offered through the University of Maryland. In March 2007, I won first prize: a check for $10,000.
Campus Entrepreneurship
FEBRUARY 2, 2012
My research and many of the schools, entrepreneurs, and issues covered on this blog have pointed to the evolution of entrepreneurship away from business planning. From Melissa Korn in the Wall Street Journal : Less planning, more legwork. At no point would competitors submit a written business plan.
Campus Entrepreneurship
DECEMBER 2, 2010
From the Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland , the application period for the Cupid’s Cup Business Competition is open. Notice, this competition is for those who have launched businesses and reaches to alumni since 2001. I attended the finals last year and it was excellent.
Hearpreneur
JANUARY 21, 2017
#9 – Developing an Entrepreneur Program. After graduating high school, I was hired by the Maryland State Department of Education, Division of Rehabilitation Services (DORS). One of the assignments I experienced was the development of their Entrepreneur Program. Image Credit: Anna Renault. I worked for them for 31+ years.
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