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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

Ahlberg founded Spotfire (acquired by Tibco) based on his research on information visualization at the University of Maryland under the guidance of Ben Shneiderman. Mr. Ahlberg earned his doctorate from Chalmers University of Technology and has worked as a visiting researcher at the University of Maryland. Moderator: Joseph W.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Our goals are to increase quality, by offering patients the best providers across the country, to increase access, by removing transportation barriers and connecting patients with these providers anywhere, and to lower costs, by eliminating the reliance on traditional healthcare infrastructure. Thanks to Stanley Kovak, Mirror Care !

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Virtual worlds – then, now and next

VC Cafe

In 2010 Jon Jacobs built & operated a virtual nightclub inside the game Entropia and sold it for $635,000! . In addition, Cloud infrastructure makes game streaming possible, increasing the reach even further and reducing the costs (as no expensive hardware is needed to play).

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[Exercise] Create A Bulletproof Mission Plan

YoungUpstarts

What will it cost to engage this target, and does the return on investment (ROI) make it worth the effort? What actions will your operating team perform? A New York native, she leads a team of content professionals from her home near Baltimore, Maryland. Does the target you’re considering fit your team? Importance.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

based companies initially funded by venture capital between 2006 and 2011, 84% now are closely held and operating independently, 11% were acquired or made initial public offerings of stock and 4% went out of business, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. Low Cost Franchises. Languishing businesses were counted as survivors.

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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

In the time since our conversation, data and science have shown again and again that wearing masks is an incredibly effective, low-cost and simple way to prevent viral spread. So I was always doing linear programming and operations research stuff, and regression models and whatever to try to solve corporate strategy problems.

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4 Student Ventures Present @ Pitch Dingman 7 Oct 2011

Campus Entrepreneurship

Four University of Maryland student firms presented at the first Pitch Dingman Event of the 2011-2012 academic year. We have seen impact and fortune created by both types of firms on the Maryland Campus and also globally. 2,750 in seed funding was available for the firms.