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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. We didn’t know it at the time, but with that investment we had paid for front-row VIP seats to witness the origins of Customer Development and the Lean Startup.

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Three Lesser-Known Ways Attorneys Can Boost Their Personal Brand

The Startup Magazine

Many of them stop there because they are content to lean on the tried-and-true advertising ways of the past. One atypical platform savvy lawyers like Maryland attorney Alex Brown have engaged is Crunchbase. So structure your event around important legal issues to the community you wish to serve. . Source: Pixabay.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Thanks to Steve Groom, Maryland Home Buyers in Baltimore ! #6- But I also leaned that is actually ok. We have now grown into an overnight hit, as we had built up a huge community of black women with skin conditions years before even launching Topicals. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community.

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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. Email This BlogThis!

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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). Steve provided an overview of the Lean LaunchPad methodology in an introductory webinar.

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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. Start an event or project. You can attract technical talent simply by being known as an outstanding, generous, helpful business person.

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Statisticians make the world go round

The Startup Magazine

Governments use statistics in order to help them make decisions, they also use social science for research into communities, and this also leans heavily on statistics. They make the rules that govern everything we do day to day. California, San Francisco. Massachusetts, Boston. California, San Jose. North Carolina, Raleigh. New Jersey.