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6 Ways User Interface and User Experience Design Can Help Your Business

crowdSPRING Blog

In some ways, smaller companies have an unfair advantage when it comes to design because their sites and apps don’t have to be so bloated. That’s where User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI) design come into play. User Interface is closer to what we consider visual design. Rahul Varshney, Co-creator of Foster.fm

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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

The organization is designed so that it can function generally as an LLC would, while legally accepting foundation grants because of the organization’s socially beneficial goals. Maryland was the first U.S. L3Cs, or Low-Profit Limited Liability Companies, are one form of legal structure in the U.S.

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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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VentureBoard Helps Universities Help Startups

YoungUpstarts

That’s what happened when University of Maryland undergraduates information systems and marketing double major Scott Block and Avi Eisenberger, and computer science major Justin Searles, got together to discuss the challenges of student entrepreneurship.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

After doing some market research, I realized that there was a market for the handcrafted greeting cards that I make, and in September 2019, MsCraftprincess Designs was formed. Coone, MsCraftprincess Designs LLC ! #2- Thanks to Steve Groom, Maryland Home Buyers in Baltimore ! #6- We like to say that we create paper hugs.

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Entrepreneur Builds on Technology Platform to Power the Barbershop Industry

Hearpreneur

We’ve also built mobile-first experiences on both iOS and Android giving barbers a beautiful and simple design which perform faster and more reliably than our competition. Maryland & Virginia area) a great place to be an entrepreneur or business owner? Where do you see your business in the next 3-5 years?

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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.