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• Mtechs David Barbe Wins Olympus 2008 Lifetime of Educational Innovation Award

  - 2008-03-24

  To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORS Contact: Eric Schurr of Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute, +1-301-405-3889, schurr@umd.edu Quiet Leaders Programs Have $14.4 Billion Impact COLLEGE PARK, Md., March 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- When the University of Maryland wants successful programs to spur technology innovation, it turns to Dr. David Barbe. A quiet leader who...

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• Univ. of Maryland's Hillman Center opens

  - 2007-10-12

  The University of Maryland, College Park, announced the official opening on Friday of the Hillman Student Entrepreneurs Center, designated by the university as a place where the inaugural class of 15 Hillman Entrepreneurs Program students can get together to brainstorm and hatch ideas in a welcoming environment. The David H....

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• News Summary - 10/12

  - 2007-10-12

  Bethesda land deal OK'd The Montgomery County Planning Board voted unanimously Thursday to purchase 1.3 acres of land on Bradley Boulevard, adjacent to Bethesda's Hillmead Neighborhood Park, for $2.5 million, increasing the size of the park to 5.64 acres. The decision ends a contentious and controversial case that...

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• Donor to Student Entrepreneurs: Dream Big But Benefit Society

  - 2007-09-25

  To: BUSINESS EDITORSContact: Eric Schurr of MTECH, +1-301-405-3889, schurr@umd.edu COLLEGE PARK, Md., Sept. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Dream big, but have a positive impact on the world. That's the idea behind a new, $250,000 Impact Pre-Seed Fund program available to select University of Maryland student entrepreneurs starting today. The Impact Pre-Seed...

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• MTECH, Hinman CEOs Cited in Fortune Small Business Magazine's Top Programs for Undergrad Entrepreneurs

  - 2007-09-20

  To: BUSINESS EDITORSContact: Eric Schurr of Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute, +1-301-405-3889, schurr@umd.edu COLLEGE PARK, Md., Sept. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute MTECH, as well as its Hinman CEOs Program and University of Maryland Technology Start-Up Boot Camp, are cited in the September issue of Fortune Small Business...

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• Lessons of the Last Bubble

  - 2007-07-01

  Notable Papers and ArticlesLessons of the Last Bubble; Tim Laseter, David Kirsch, and Brent Goldfarb; strategy + business; www.strategy-business.com/resiliencereport/ resilience/rr00044This paper by faculty from the University of Virginia Darden School Laseter and the University of Maryland Smith School of Business finds that the dot-com failure rate between 2000 and 2002...

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• Dr. Alexio Fasano to be honored as U of MD, Baltimore's Entrepreneur

  - 2006-10-23

  Dr. Alexio Fasano, director of the University of Maryland Center for Celiac Research, and chair of the science advisory board for Baltimore-based Alba Therapeutics Corp., is to be honored as the University of Maryland, Baltimore's first Entrepreneur of the Year at a ceremony today at UMB's downtown campus, for his...

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• News Summary

  - 2006-06-26

  MobilePro in Yuma MobilePro Corp., of Bethesda, a provider of wireless technology and broadband telecommunications services, said it has signed a contract with Yuma, Ariz., the state's third-largest city, to design, deploy and operate a wireless network covering "a portion" of its total 106 square miles. Financial terms...

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• The Executive's Edge For Breakthrough Results: Nationally Acclaimed Business Growth Expert Teams With Maryland Lt. Gov. Steele, MD Chamber of Commerce and Area Business Leaders to Help Maryland and Washington D.C. Businesses to Grow Fast, Grow Right

  - 2006-03-01

  BALTIMORE -- It's the mandate for every business owner: Grow the business! But, too many of today's entrepreneurs fail to see that business growth, if not planned and managed correctly, can actually kill the business. "Even the best cars need a pit stop now and then, and rapid growth...

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• Out of the box, into boot camp -- Univ. of MD entrepereneurial

  - 2005-09-16

  Several hundred academics will enter boot camp next month, but they won't be crawling through underbrush or marching in formation. Instead, they'll receive rigorous training in how to start a company. Guided by successful entrepreneurs at the University of Maryland A. James Clark School of Engineering, the recruits...

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