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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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Why My Roommate Called Me a Cheater

Growthink Blog

My thinking was like this: why would someone ever want to go into a meeting with a venture capitalist without knowing the questions they would be asked? So that's why I created a program for raising venture capital. That's suicide. And that's why I created a simple business plan template.

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Business Startup Funding: How Even the "Sweatiest Guy" Raised Tons of Funding

Growthink Blog

Kevin was a football player at the University of Maryland. While I've identified 41 sources of funding to which entrepreneurs have access, many sources are tied to how far your venture has progressed. In such a case, you need to raise other types of funding first, achieve certain milestones, and then contact venture capitalists.

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

online.wsj.com

SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. --> The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. The National Venture Capital Association estimates that 25% to 30% of venture-backed businesses fail. NAME David Cowan.

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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. Tuesday, Jan 17th, 2012.

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How to Make the Perfect Startup Pitch

The Startup Magazine

Notre Dame of Maryland University’s online bachelor’s degree in business uses case studies, consulting assignments and a capstone course to give students real-world knowledge to use in their business career. The program takes place in a fully online learning environment. Crafting a Pitch or Presentation. By Brian Neese.

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Student Startup Offers Quora Like Platform for Profs and Students | The Chronicle of Higher Education

Campus Entrepreneurship

After graduating, she got a master’s degree in computer science at the University of Maryland at College Park, and then worked as an engineer for Facebook and other companies for a few years. She wrote the original version of Piazza herself, after teaching herself the programming language Ruby on Rails from a book.