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

Hunter Walker

Each summer they match high performing software engineering students from these underrepresented groups with Mentor and summer internships. Even if you’re just starting out in your career, there’s an opportunity to develop a ‘pay it forward’ mentality. Recommend a student: bit.ly/2040REF. Code2040 Stats To Date.

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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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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 10: Reetu Gupta and Mandela Schumacher-Hodge

Steve Blank

Before starting CirkledIn , Reetu Gupta spent 20 years in corporate America doing internal startups as well as marketing and engineering work at Fortune 50 companies including AT&T Wireless and Honeywell. When I came to Maryland for the first time, I was like, “Oh my God, this is where I should have been born.

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Univ of MD Engineering Entrepreneurship Students Visit White House

Campus Entrepreneurship

The University of Maryland is one of the cases that I am completing during my research on the modern university and its role as a frontier for entrepreneurship. Here’s an interesting snapshot of Maryland’s Clark School of Engineering’s entrepreneurship program and a recent event at the White House.

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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). It has since been adopted by the entire federal research community. Lessons Learned.

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Fly High

Steve Blank

Todd Branchflower was one of my Lean LaunchPad students entrepreneurial enough to convince the Air Force send him to Stanford to get his graduate engineering degree. Fast-forward three years and Todd is now Captain Todd Branchflower , teaching electrical engineering at the Air Force Academy. He promised that one day he would fix that.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Did Prior to Starting Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

These elements of my previous corporate career have been crucial in my attempts to reverse engineer an existing industry by simply adding an element of human interaction to a seemingly saturated (online dating) market. 11 – US Army Classified as a Computer Engineer. Thanks to Katie Wagner, Katie Wagner Social Media ! #9