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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

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. Maryland was the first U.S. appeared first on Bplans Blog. Here in the U.S. state to adopt this structure in 2010.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Thanks to Steve Groom, Maryland Home Buyers in Baltimore ! #6- I'd been hobby-blogging as a side hustle for a while, and when my second child was on the way I realized that I wanted to spend the maximum time at home with my kids while still contributing to the family income. It wasn’t really on my mind to start a blog.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder

startupbaltimore.org

Baltimore’s startup community has plenty of room for new leaders. There are a ton of programmers in this region and a lot of them are toiling away outside of the communities I highlighted in #2. You could start a blog all about your idea and the struggle to bring it to fruition. Start an event or project. Catchy tune.

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The Democratization of Innovation | Yes That is What is Occurring

Campus Entrepreneurship

Participants included, Mark Walsh CEO of Genius Rocket, Mike Lincoln of Cooley LP, Ashish Jaiman of Microsoft, and Edmund Pendleton from MTECH at the University of Maryland. Successful businesses gain support from a larger community, particularly when chemistry and complementary business philosophies come into play.

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

Before that I was an equal partner in Kaggle, which is a popular data science competition community. So plenty of dark bits, but also this weird discovery that you can create incredibly close connections with people that I've never met before and build a global community of people who want nothing more than to help save lives.

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Lean startup tools for Rails apps

www.subelsky.com

Mike Subelskys Blog Wednesday, November 11, 2009 Lean startup tools for Rails apps A few months ago I was invited to dinner with the Geeks on a Plane crew when they stopped in Washington, and had the opportunity to meet one of my heroes, Eric Ries , author of the Startup Lessons Learned blog. We love Cucumber for higher level testing.

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Startup Chica Spotlight: Meet Some of Austin’s Female Founders

Austin Startup

The MamaLingua community has reached well beyond Austin, Texas, expanding nationally and globally. She blogs about her experiences raising bilingual children sharing her stories, adventures, and strategies for creating a bilingual household for your children. She is married with two beautiful children. Department of State.

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