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Why I left Wall Street to figure it out.

Austin Startup

He thought his family in Maryland could use it to know what’s going within Ethiopian circles there. Photo of the first online design in the library I shared my first design with my developer friend Eyesodike, who was then working for VISA as a developer. He loved it! Okay,” I thought. Maybe there’s something here.

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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 I have a feeling that a lot of these "on demand" companies aren''t going to be as gamechanging as we think--and will come back down to earth with valuations that look more like temp agencies than the next big thing.

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How to Make the Perfect Startup Pitch

The Startup Magazine

million valuation ($150,000 for 10 percent equity) in 2008. 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. Here are a few particularly noteworthy startup pitches.

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Kauffman Foundation Awards 15 Dissertation Fellowships | Entrepreneurship Research

Campus Entrepreneurship

Sex-Differences in Patterns of Network Activation and Returns to Social Ties for Male and Female Entrepreneurs” Seth Carnahan, University of Maryland, College Park “Patterns and Performance of Entrepreneurship that Crosses Industry Boundaries” Edward J. Gilje, Boston College “Does Local Access to Finance Matter?