Bowie State University students will get hands-on experience running a coffee shop as part of the university’s partnership with a Philadelphia coffee chain. Saxbys will bring its experiential learning program to Bowie State this fall — the first campus it ...

Tagged with: bowie state university entrepreneurship experiential learning

The list of people trying to help Baltimore is almost as long as the list of the city’s problems. But little has been heard from the people who will inherit those problems and have the biggest stake in solving them: ...

Tagged with: entrepreneurship Green Street Academy

Three tech companies run by minority entrepreneurs received pre-seed funding from the Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO) and The Harbor Bank of Maryland Community Development Corporation on Tuesday. Implicit Solution, Game ChangeHer and Panacea Company, the three winning companies, will ...

Tagged with: entrepreneurship Harbor Bank TEDCO

Millennial Media founder Paul Palmieri has donated $1 million to his alma mater, Mount St. Mary’s University, to create a center for entrepreneurship. The center will provide a major and a minor in entrepreneurship and include a combination of in-class ...

Tagged with: entrepreneurship Jennie Hunter-Cevera millennial media mount st. mary's university Paul Palmieri

McDaniel College handed out $18,000 in prizes to student entrepreneurs competing in the school’s Innovation Challenge on Monday night. Freshman Justin Arter and junior Louis Schaab won the $10,000 top prize with their business, called Ride with Pride. Their company tries ...

Tagged with: entrepreneurship McDaniel College McDaniel Innovation Challenge

Last year, the state legislature passed legislation to form a partnership between the University of Maryland’s Baltimore and College Park campuses. One aspect of the partnership will be an attempt to increase entrepreneurship developing out of the campuses and the ...

Tagged with: Center for Maryland Advanced Ventures entrepreneurship James Hughes University of Maryland Baltimore University of Maryland College Park

Laura Jimenez knew she was worth more than she was making, so she started her own business to prove it. The Texas native opened Rockville, Maryland-based FireClean, an emergency cleaning and restoration service, in 1996 at the age of 27 after doing ...

Tagged with: entrepreneurship hispanic

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the competition, chaired by Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank, that seeks to foster interest in student entrepreneurship.

Tagged with: entrepreneurship

Mentorship programs for aspiring entrepreneurs shouldn’t end after students graduate, as far as University of Maryland officials are concerned.

Tagged with: entrepreneurship Robert H. Smith School of Business University of Maryland College Park

The 10th annual Cupid’s Cup Business Competition is now accepting applications.

Tagged with: cupid's cup entrepreneurship