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The Baltimore area produces a lot of research, but the region is merely middling when it comes to patenting innovations. A new report suggests that high-profile efforts at change haven't taken hold yet. - Talent and drive have been the tools of Monica Williams' transition from educator to business owner.
- For the last dozen years, Vince Talbert has had his head down focused on one thing: Bill Me Later.
- Maryland's second-in-command on economic development matters will step into the top job in January when the current secretary leaves for the private sector, state officials announced Wednesday.
- Grotech Ventures will be the first venture capital firm to invest in Maryland startup companies using $12 million in state money as part of the InvestMaryland program, state economic development officials said Wednesday.
- MedImmune leaders say the company is at a key point in developing drugs for AstraZeneca and has grown despite fears its acquisition would hurt Maryland.
- When Justen Garrity left the Army for the business world, his five years as an officer, experienced in combat, engineering and leadership, mattered little to prospective employers. He shared his experiences starting a new business with other veterans at Aberdeen Proving Ground.
- Earlier this year, Deb Tillett took over the helm at the Emerging Technology Center, Baltimore's main technology business incubator, after that organization's long-time head, Ann Lansinger, retired
- Tenable Network Security Inc. has quietly built a booming business selling network security products and services to the U.S. government and companies around the world. It's profitable and has thousands of clients.
- Startup Bus records 168 pitch videos from Maryland bus tour
- Not just the city's potential but its many current successes inspire excitement, confidence
- Invest Maryland Challenge attracts dozens of companies
- Harford County Executive David R. Craig, accompanied by James Richardson, director of the Office of Economic Development and members of his team, took time to recognize more than a dozen businesses during Business Appreciation Week, Sept. 17 – 21.
- What if millions of kids were given the tools to become entrepreneurs?
- A statewide economic development bus tour and business pitch competition will come to a close Sept. 28 with a last-stop party in Columbia.
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- Accelerate Baltimore prepares second session next year
- Startup Bus Maryland
- Symposium offers tools for starting a new business
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- Burck Smith is so far making good on his vision for revamping the way people pay for and complete college courses. His startup company, Straighterline, enables students to pay $99 a month for introductory college courses — and potentially save tens of thousands of dollars in the process.
- Partlow's company was one of four startups in the inaugural class of Accelerate Baltimore, which was funded with $100,000 investment from the philanthropic Abell Foundation in the city. The program, which started in April and ended last week, was run out of the Emerging Technology Center, a tech incubator in Canton.
- Betamore, to open in September, will be a place that entrepreneurs — for a monthly membership fee — can temporarily call home while getting access to the mentoring and networking needed to turn ideas into viable products.
- President Obama is wrong when he credits government for helping entrepreneurs
- New head of Maryland Venture Fund named
- The Board of County Commissioners, which refused an airport expansion that was 95 percent funded by higher levels of government, is about to embark on a fund to loan small business startups money at a rate of $25,000 per each.
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- South Baltimore company Big City Farms aims to expand fresh food production across city
- Nearly two years since Maryland's first casino opened, the state has yet to dole out any of the $3.6 million in slots revenue that has accumulated for small, minority- and women-owned businesses.
- Many in Baltimore's technology community now know Ron Schmelzer as the guy who organizes the monthly Baltimore Tech Breakfasts. The Baltimore Sun recently interviewed Schmelzer, who talked about launching Baltimore TechBreakfast, the region's technology community, and his plans for his latest startup venture, Bizelo.
- Steve Adler, manager of Savage Mill, filed a breach-of-contract complaint against Board of Education member Brian Meshkin, claiming Meshkin owes him $3,000.
- Accelerator Wasabi Ventures names three startups at Loyola University
- A survey by the Innovation Alliance found that a vast majority of participants in Baltimore's technology community are interested in a "hub" – akin to similar spaces in New York City and San Diego — that could be used for meetings, conferences and continuous education and networking for entrepreneurs.
- Nextdoor and a bevy of competitors are aiming to create virtual communities for neighborhoods. It's a group that would seem to need no cyberspace help — except that many neighborhoods aren't especially neighborly these days.
- For the past 18 months, Robert A. Rosenbaum, 54, has taken on a new challenge: technology economic development for Maryland. He's been serving as president and executive director of Maryland Technology Development Corp., or TEDCO, the state's technology development arm.
- In Baltimore on Friday, failure will get its due. Business leaders and entrepreneurs are expected to expose their biggest stumbles in order to show how they overcame failure on their path to success.
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- Wasabi Ventures to work with Loyola student-run startups
- Startups: Recipes for failure and success
- Ann Lansinger, who's run Baltimore's Emerging Technology Center in Canton since 1999, retires April 5.
- A Maryland plan to sell tax credits to insurance companies succeeded in raising $84 million in a novel online auction, and the revenue will be pumped into promising technology companies across the state over the next 18 months, officials said.
- Angel investment was up across the country, per the HALO report.
- A Baltimore charitable foundation is joining with Maryland's main technology development agency to create a $3.3 million investment fund that will pump money into new tech startups in the city, officials plan to announce Tuesday.
- Ablitech's choice earlier this year to move to Baltimore was a modest win for the still-growing University of Maryland BioPark on the west side of downtown, where around 500 people work.
- Hardebeck sold company to Facebook last fall, now runs Greater Baltimore Tech Council
