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The Big Bang. The Lean LaunchPad explodes at University of Maryland

Steve Blank

The University of Maryland is now integrating the Lean LaunchPad ® into standard innovation and entrepreneurship courses across all 12 colleges within the University. The DC, Maryland, and Virginia (DMV) region represents the most fertile science and technology region in the country with about $30 billion in federally-funded R&D.

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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

“Our best chance to make the world better is to agree that the choice among corporate structures should be made entirely in service of social impact,” says Rich Leimsider, the Vice President of Fellowship Programs at Echoing Green, a nonprofit that invests with social entrepreneurs. Maryland was the first U.S.

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VentureBoard Helps Universities Help Startups

YoungUpstarts

That’s what happened when University of Maryland undergraduates information systems and marketing double major Scott Block and Avi Eisenberger, and computer science major Justin Searles, got together to discuss the challenges of student entrepreneurship.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 10: Reetu Gupta and Mandela Schumacher-Hodge

Steve Blank

The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs, lows and pivots that pushed them forward. program to become an entrepreneur: …I was on my way to the Ph.D… So I started my PhD program.

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TerrAPPins: University of Maryland Contest Seeks Student-Developed Mobile Apps

Campus Entrepreneurship

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.

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Business Contest Innovation | 2012 Maryland Pinterest Pitch Contest | Gov O’Malley

Campus Entrepreneurship

Today, I learned via a student @georgemasonU that Governor Martin O’Malley of Maryland was hosting a business plan contest on Pinterest. This contest is restricted to Maryland residents, students attending a Maryland University or College and Maryland based businesses. via 2012 Maryland Pinterest Pitch Contest.

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Doubling Down On a Good Thing: The National Science Foundation’s I-Corps Lite

Steve Blank

I’ve known Edmund Pendleton from the University of Maryland as the Director of the D.C. National Science Foundation (NSF) I-Corps Node (a collaboration among the University of Maryland, Virginia Tech, George Washington, and Johns Hopkins). Here’s Edmund’s description of the I-Corps Lite program. were funded by the SBIR program.

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