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7 Advantages For Being A Socially Responsible Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

To legally facilitate startups who want to give top priority to socially conscious solutions, thirty-five states, starting with Maryland way back in 2010, have passed legislation allowing incorporation as a Benefit Corporation (B-Corp). For some business opportunities, like Facebook and Twitter, the community is the value.

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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. The DC, Maryland, and Virginia (DMV) region represents the most fertile science and technology region in the country with about $30 billion in federally-funded R&D.

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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. Here in the U.S. InStove contributes both the technology for efficient stoves, and the means to create sustainable jobs.

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The Tech Mentorship Gap: How Code2040 Is Solving. What You Can Do. And How LinkedIn Can Help

Hunter Walker

I’d love to see LinkedIn standardize the notion of community service as a field in your profile. 2013 Class 18 Fellows - CMU, Stanford, MIT, University of Maryland- Baltimore County, Virginia Tech, University of Pittsburg, Harvey Mudd College, UCLA, USC, Berkeley, University of Huston, CSU Channel Islands, Notre Dame de Namur.

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Three Lesser-Known Ways Attorneys Can Boost Their Personal Brand

The Startup Magazine

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. . Some attorneys have had success on YouTube, or even TikTok, with whimsical, often humorous videos about legal issues.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Thanks to Steve Groom, Maryland Home Buyers in Baltimore ! #6- 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. 6- Help people align with their purpose. Photo Credit: Kendra Hill.

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TerrAPPins: University of Maryland Contest Seeks Student-Developed Mobile Apps

Campus Entrepreneurship

contest for students at the University of Maryland. By Priya Kumar : Last semester, University of Maryland students received academic credit for creating iPhone apps. via Calling all TerrAPPins: University of Maryland Contest seeks student-developed mobile apps :: University Communications Newsdesk, University of Maryland.