startups
- Baltimore needs to do everything it can to remain attractive to venture capitalists and high-tech startups
- Eight Maryland businesses approved for $34 million in tax credits from 2007 to 2010 failed to document their project or startup costs, according to a legislative audit of the state's economic development agency.
- UM President Wallace Loh says a modest investment will unlock the employment potential of the state's research universities
- Leaders of Maryland startups hunting for early-stage financing have made pilgrimages to California and either returned with a big check — or advice to move to that state or New York City.
- If you ever complain about a cough, cold or the flu on Twitter or Facebook, a Baltimore startup called Sickweather.com wants your tweets and status updates.
- Millennial Media, a five-year-old mobile advertising firm based in Baltimore, has proposed an initial public offering of shares of its common stock in paperwork filed Thursday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
- Group chosen to manage Maryland tax-credit auction, whose goal is to raise money for new state high-tech startups.
- Local tech entrepreneurs Greg Cangialosi and Sean Lane are teaming up to launch what they're calling a hybrid accelerator. Their goal: make small investments in several of startups, germinate their own ideas, and help fuel the city's entrepreneurial ecosystem.
- A Columbia startup is using a helicopter to hover over traffic and events in the Baltimore-Washington area with messages scrolling across a huge digital billboard.
- Union Craft Brewing outlines plans for Woodberry brewery
- With sales of craft beer far outpacing those for mainstream lagers, brewers in Maryland have recognized what some are calling the second wave of the craft beer movement and are opening brand-new businesses. In Maryland, five, including Monocacy, are already in business or will be within a year.
- Small business: SBA program leverages private money, avoids taxpayer risk
- The mobile app economy is real – and it's brewing in Baltimore.
- Dairy farmers are an increasingly rare breed in Maryland, where such operations are disappearing at twice the national average. Nearly 65 percent of the state's dairy farmers have left the industry in the past 20 years, including 34 operations last year, according to the Dept. of Agriculture.
- Despite the current controversies, investors realize that low-polluting energy is the wave of the future
- Economic Development board talks angel investing and jobs
- David Troy: CEO of 410Labs, political gadfly and promoter of Baltimore's technology community
- Maryland's new state health-insurance exchange will make quality care affordable to more residents no matter how the courts ultimately rule on efforts to repeal federal health-care reform