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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Hemafuse

Austin Startup

Yarina spoke about the meaning of Sisu in Finnish, the importance of building community, and what she loves about being in Baltimore. Tell us your favorite thing about being based in Baltimore. We are proud to be a Baltimore-based company with global reach. of investment raised has come from the Baltimore/DC area.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Thanks to Steve Groom, Maryland Home Buyers in Baltimore ! #6- My first business, a digital agency called MPSWORKS, came about purely based on demand for digital services and to generally help make a difference for small businesses across the UK by creating strong work that would help them prosper. Photo Credit: Kendra Hill.

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How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea

socialmatchbox.com

Founders seem to take for granted exactly how in demand a good programmer is. Simultaneously, founders tend to take for granted how in demand bad programmers are too. There is a huge demand for programmers in America – good and bad. The old rules of supply and demand should apply in this case, but they don’t.

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More Postal Like Stupidity from the US Government

Campus Entrepreneurship

From John Fritze from the Baltimore Sun : Congress created a program in 2005 to mint four new dollar coins a year, each featuring a different U.S. via Dollar coins piling up at Baltimore reserve bank – baltimoresun.com. president, in an effort to encourage consumers to make the switch from dollar bills to coins.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

Both Sides of the Table

But as I look at the GRP Partners returns we’ve made a lot of money investing in companies in New York, Chicago, Baltimore, Las Vegas, Arizona and Seattle. on to their next companies and that produced Demand Media, a public company who even with a slight recent reduction in share price is still trading at $1.3

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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

Both Sides of the Table

GroupOn, Living Social, AdMeld, Gilt Group, Demand Media, ShoeDazzle, Tumblr, FourSquare, etc. Our biggest returns were outside Silicon Valley: Overture (LA), CitySearch (LA), BillMeLater (Baltimore), Ulta (Chicago), Envestnet (Chicago), HDI (Las Vegas), PF Changs (Arizona), TrueCar (LA). But of course that’s horse puckey.

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Out of the Crisis #16: Robert Schooley on why we weren't prepared, long-term thinking, and how to make decisions for the greater good.

Startup Lessons Learned

And I was training in East Baltimore at the time and most of my patients were intercity members of the Baltimore community. Also, it is a cluster of diseases that disproportionately affected people at the other end of the economic spectrum.