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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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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

By this time, Erin had already spent 4 years in operations at a startup that was in skyrocket growth mode, so she knew her knowledge in scaling operations was as valuable as this idea; she became my co-founder. GreenPal’s vision is to become the operating system and platform that makes the lawn care industry run smoothly.

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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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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Hemafuse

Austin Startup

In addition to entrepreneurship, she has a background in chemical engineering, supply chain management, biomedical engineering research, microbiology research, and new product development for U.S. She is the primary inventor of a modular centrifuge that operates with or without electricity. and Indian companies.

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9 Unlikely Entrepreneurs Who Changed The Market

YoungUpstarts

Today, Microsoft and its line of operating systems are the biggest and most widely used in the world. Before starting the multinational Internet and software corporation with Larry Page, Brin was a student at the University of Maryland, studying mathematics and computer science.

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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.