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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

Thanks to Steve Groom, Maryland Home Buyers in Baltimore ! #6- I figured after so many people were asking to me help them out with marketing projects on the side, I could do this gig part-time while also managing the kids and household. As the agency work poured in, I also tried to manage everything on the home front.

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Entrepreneur Builds on Technology Platform to Power the Barbershop Industry

Hearpreneur

Barbers can then manage all their appointments and clients in one place. Maryland & Virginia area) a great place to be an entrepreneur or business owner? Our mobile app lets clients book appointments with their baber 24/7 at their own convenience. What makes you unique? What makes the DMV (Washington D.C.,

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Why I left Wall Street to figure it out.

Austin Startup

The manager of the promotion knew me from having worked on another promotion at the previous year’s SXSW festival for State Farm, and she liked my work. I talked to the manager about this problem and called it off. He thought his family in Maryland could use it to know what’s going within Ethiopian circles there. He loved it!

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Did Prior to Starting Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

The owner was not equipped to manage people. 3 – Google Regional Sales Manager. Before starting Badger, I worked at Google as Regional Sales Manager. Sales Account Manager. Sales Account Manager for a leading NYC based StartUp. Thanks to Natalie Harper, Harper PR. #3 Image Credit: Steve Benson. 4 – Sr.

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What I Wish I’d Known Before I Started My Business

Up and Running

I wish I knew: how to manage cash flow. Jonathan Passley, the owner of PDR Web Solutions, a web design and online marketing company located in Baltimore, Maryland, says he didn’t know how to save for taxes when he first started out at the age of 22. Kelly Costello, owner of Puppy Cake. I wish I knew: how to plan for taxes.

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Statisticians make the world go round

The Startup Magazine

You will learn information management, how to organize information, how to put importance on certain parts of it, and how to share this information in the most effective way. Communication skills that you can apply to colleagues as well as with your data results. California, San Francisco. Massachusetts, Boston. California, San Jose.