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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). NSF led the development of the SBIR program in the late 1970s.

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Rise of the ‘Edupunk’ Spells Opportunity For Entrepreneurs

Campus Entrepreneurship

Jack Stripling has an interesting piece in the wake of the recent TIAA-CREF Institute’s 2010 Higher Education Leadership Conference. Brit) Kirwan, chancellor of the University System of Maryland and a national advocate for improving efficiencies in higher education.

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[Exercise] Create A Bulletproof Mission Plan

YoungUpstarts

This is important, since leadership roles will likely shift during the mission. A New York native, she leads a team of content professionals from her home near Baltimore, Maryland. Who’s in charge of what and when? Plan contingencies for this part as well. Communication.

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Role Model Entrepreneur: Brad Bergersen Interview

Startup Professionals Musings

24K Brokers has been featured on ABC-2 and Fox45 news channel in Maryland, as well as on Radio One and the Huffington Post. Marty: Brad, thank you very much for some great insights and your role-model leadership for all of us! Excuses are monuments of nothingness; if you commit to not making them, you will succeed! Marty Zwilling.

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Entrepreneur Creates a Technologically Savvy Daycare Model

Hearpreneur

Currently, we are regionally expanding with 44 child care centers under development in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Maryland. For that reason we strive to treat everyone within that Circle of Care with the same excellence, integrity and leadership that we devote toward our children. What makes your franchise unique?

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9 Unlikely Entrepreneurs Who Changed The Market

YoungUpstarts

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. Sergey Brin is a co-founder of Google and one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the world. Walt Disney.

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8 Tips On Intercultural Communication And International Etiquette To Create Successful Business Relationships In Asia

YoungUpstarts

Michele Gelfand, a psychology professor at the University of Maryland, distinguishes between tight and loose cultures. On the Global Gender Gap Index, for instance, the Philippines ranks second only to Norway in women’s ability to rise to leadership positions in enterprise. Know how formal or informal people tend to be. .

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