startupbaltimore.org

OCTOBER 23, 2010

&# Know who you are looking for : Sometimes people start off by saying “I need to find a Rails person&# – they’ve heard Ruby on Rails is a great framework for building web products, so they’ve pre-decided to use it. Tech cofounders want the freedom to use their favorite language, stack, tools, etc. Catchy tune.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2013

To legally facilitate startups who want to give top priority to socially conscious solutions, seventeen states, starting with Maryland in 2010, have passed legislation allowing incorporation as a Benefit Corporation (B-Corp). Socially responsible products typically sell at a premium price.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Say you do a lengthy product demonstration video and host a “live” video session over the Internet. You could take that footage, split it up into smaller chunks and repurpose it as a “How To” series for your products and services.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 7, 2012

Reed Street Productions, a Zombie race event company (see the video of their pitch below) has booked over $3 million in revenue in less than 2 years. (It The real participation of alumni entrepreneurs appears to be one of the strengths of University of Maryland, the Smith School of Business, and the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 25, 2020

SXSW brings a huge chunk of the music and tech world together in one city every year in March, and most startups launch their products there every year. The startup was launching its product there, and as part of the promotion plan, we were to go into bars in the evenings and sign people up to use their service. How did I get the gig?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 23, 2017

User Experience is the way a person interacts with and uses a product, system or service. A great product experience starts with UX followed by UI. Both are essential for the product’s success. UserTesting.com is one of many sites that make testing the usability of your products easier. That means more business for you!

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Consumer Products. Paper & Forest Products. Chemicals & Allied Products. Fabricated Metal Products. Food and Kindred Products. Leather and Leather Products. Lumber and Wood Products. Paper & Allied Products. Rubber and Plastic Products. Textile Mill Products. Hospitality.

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Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2015

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). I-Corps Lite is one more piece of that program. Lessons Learned.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 25, 2020

Video games characters marketed on food products. Virtual wedding in Animal Crossing – Janna and Stefan, from Maryland, US, walked down the aisle and made vows during the ceremony. JJ Abrams premiers Star Wars trailer inside Fortnite: Photo credit: the Verge. Roblox birthday party during lockdown have proven popular.

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Mike Michalowicz

MARCH 7, 2016

Nick Muzzatti is the operator of an entertainment rental business in Rockville, Maryland. Now, Nick is ready to take this knowledge and apply it productively to his current business and all future business ventures. Our Guest Nick Muzzatti is the operator of an entertainment rental business in Rockville, Maryland. Show Links.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2013

You’d imagine your favorite founder, VC, blogger, political figure, billionaire, whatever has a stress free life pontificating about how to build the next really cool, society-altering product or changing a city, state or country. And nobody releases products. But of course life isn’t like this. For the year to end.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

Product testing. When a company produces their new and exciting product, it is important that they give the customers the best possible option. Companies need to run tests and reviews so that they can know for sure that their product is at the best level that it can be. Statistics are also used in what is called quality testing.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

The next military college was the Naval Academy in Annapolis Maryland, set up in 1845 to train Navy officers. This means students spend a ton of time and effort to deliver a “final” product release but it’s almost certain that it wouldn’t meet real world users’ needs without extensive rework and modification.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

Costello took her flagship product, a cake mix that pet parents can make for their dogs, on the hit show “Shark Tank.” I just went out and tried to make a great product, but didn’t start building a business until after I went on Shark Tank and realized that I didn’t have a business worth buying,” she says.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2012

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. Henry Ford gave us the first affordable automobile and prompted the use of assembly lines in mass production. Henry Ford. Walt Disney.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2014

By Mark Divine with Allyson Edelhertz Machate, authors of “ The Way of the SEAL: Think Like an Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed “ In this exercise, you will work through a mock mission plan related to either your business or personal life – for example, to launch a new product, service, or venue, or to lose weight.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

That’s the mission driving products like Hemafuse , one of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020. Sisu is currently expanding its product portfolio and geographic scale to develop additional cutting-edge, patented, clinically proven medical devices, and to create a system for medical device commercialization in emerging markets.

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Brandanew

SEPTEMBER 19, 2015

A certain impact on work-productivity. That makes it hard to calculate productivity gains & loses. Here’s how: a) Firstly it is developing addiction and consuming all our free time: A study by the University of Maryland states that, students who were asked to go without the Internet for 24 hours faced withdrawal symptoms.

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www.subelsky.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Heres a revised version of what I emailed in response, garnered while building OtherInbox and other Rails apps: First and foremost, I find Rails itself to be very useful for building a product for a lean startup; the expressiveness of Ruby and the conventions of Rails help developers more quickly build a minimum viable product.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 10, 2011

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.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 7, 2010

Dominoes Stars , the company’s flagship product, is available as a downloadable client or an online game. Play4Skill's Flagship Product, Dominoes Stars is a money making machine, attracting players from all over the world. P4S develops multi-player skill games, primarily focused on 3D life-like Domino games.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

The next military college was the Naval Academy in Annapolis Maryland, set up in 1845 to train Navy officers. This means students spend a ton of time and effort to deliver a “final” product release but it’s almost certain that it wouldn’t meet real world users’ needs without extensive rework and modification.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

And making sales early on when a product is not nearly what it will be one day is especially hard. My team and I have created Happster, the first product created to take employee happiness to new heights through positive psychology. If I did not have the background in sales, we would not have made it. Thanks to Lori Cheek, Cheekd ! #8

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 4, 2017

You should have an understanding of your product or service, the market and how these two areas interact. Investors want to see sales or proof of concept to understand how consumers will see your product or service. Other metrics include marketing efforts, cost of production, business figures and more.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 22, 2017

Before it dropped Trump brand products, Nordstrom was voted the number one most “boycott-able” company on the list by #GrabYourWallet participants precisely because of how much they missed shopping there. . Alec Ross, Candidate for Governor of Maryland. Support #GrabYourWallet. . Ezra Levin, Indivisible.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 31, 2012

In 1775, she became the first woman to have a paper published under her name and would serve as the chief editor for the Maryland Journal in the early stages of the American Revolution. Pinkham built her home remedies business into a thriving enterprise, largely through savvy marketing of her products to women. Nellie Cashman.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

That's why I started creating information products at Growthink a couple years back. In fact, later today I will be driving to Maryland to attend a meeting with some of the top internet marketers in the world. And that's why I created a simple business plan template.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 9, 2017

She has a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of Maryland-College Park. Throughout the day, girls ages 9–18 will work with mentors from the startup and tech worlds to come up with solutions to community issues and turn it into a product or app that they will pitch to a panel of judges.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2014

Method, the popular cleaning products company, is a registered benefit corporation in the state of Delaware. Image via methodhome.com. I recently wrote a post on social enterprise, discussing what it entails, and what some of the legal structure options are for a business when the focus is on a social mission.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

So yeah, so now we've got New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, LA, Miami, Washington, San Antonio, Dallas County, San Francisco. So Hogan is Maryland, and he's actually been a bit of a star here because he did this fantastic interview where he talked about rights.

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Kevin was a football player at the University of Maryland. Kevin succeeded in finding this material, creating products from it, and building a company out of his products. His name is Kevin Plank. And he was born on August 13, 1972. But he was no ordinary football player. Being the "sweatiest guy" wasn't a joke to Kevin.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Really solid radio interview with University of Maryland student entrepreneur Kevin Plank (CEO and founder of Under Armour ). This is a very crucial point we make in working with young entrepreneurs who often think about mass markets before really achieving strong product market fit.

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

Design & Production. Production/Printing/Manufacturing. Production Software. Design/Production. Editor - Maryland. Product Launch. Browse Jobs. Search Jobs. Post a Job. -->. --> By Topic. Audience Development. Assn/Non-Profit. B2B: Business Media. City & Regionals. CMS Insights. Consumer Media. White Papers.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 9, 2014

This post is one in a series of tips designed to guide small business owners through the challenges of today’s startup environment and is sponsored by Canon MAXIFY – the printer lineup designed to help small business owners increase productivity so that they can focus on everything else that matters.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 30, 2015

A paper by two University of Maryland researchers who arrived at that number concluded the following: ".Observed Because most internet business concepts were not capable of productively employing tens of millions of dollars of venture capital does not mean they were bad ideas."

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

I think it’s important for companies to serve all stakeholders, even if it was for the sole benefit of shareholders, because young people — let’s take people under 30 — care a lot more today about the companies that they buy the products from. Well, that same thing can be said for any product. And I also think about regulation.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

What the Prowler needed was value as a physical product that could stand on its own, supported by sponsors and mentors in the community to underwrite its expanding growth. Joey Rahimi from Manhattan heads up the online marketing and Omid Gohari from Potomac, Maryland oversees recruitment of writers for each school’s version of the guide.

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