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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

InStove contributes both the technology for efficient stoves, and the means to create sustainable jobs. Maryland was the first U.S. Here in the U.S. it is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit, but because of its dedication to sustainability, it is now working with local communities to form separate stove manufacturing factories in their countries.

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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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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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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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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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Finding a Technical Cofounder

startupbaltimore.org

In the exact words of Nike, “Just Fucking Do It!&# [link] Robby Grossman To elaborate on #1, be as technologically agnostic as possible. It’s the inherit nature of an entrepreneur, one who sees no obstacles and creates, not questions. Tech cofounders want the freedom to use their favorite language, stack, tools, etc. Catchy tune.

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Winning Contests Helps Startup Beyond the Launch | Univ of Maryland | MIT Enterprise Forum

Campus Entrepreneurship

From Entrepreneur Magazine: In 2006, I got into ACTiVATE, a women’s entrepreneurship training program offered through the University of Maryland. They told us about a business plan competition in the state of Maryland for women-owned companies. How Winning Contests Helped a Startup Beyond the Launch | Entrepreneur.com.