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 ANNUAL
OPEN HOUSE!!
Thursday, September 8
12:00 noon - 2:00 p.m.
3rd floor atrium, Van Munching Hall
ALL are welcome!
UG Students! Graduate
Students! Faculty! Staff! Regional
Entrepreneurs! UMD Alumni!
Learn about
opportunities for student involvement in REAL
businesses!
Find out how we can help you develop your GREAT IDEA
into a
viable,
money-making business!
Come get involved in entrepreneurship at the Dingman
Center!
FREE pizza!
FREE sodas!
FREE fun stuff to eat!
FREE giveaways!
For more info or to RSVP, e-mail
Carol Cron at
ccron@rhsmith.umd.edu
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CALENDAR OF DINGMAN
CENTER EVENTS
FOR 2005 - 2006 ACADEMIC YEAR
- FALL SEMESTER
Open House
This
annual event is open to all students and regional
entrepreneurs. It is an opportunity to hear
about the programs and events which the Dingman
Center is planning for the upcoming year, to meet
the Dingman Center staff and new Dingman Scholars,
and to get involved with our activities right from
the beginning. Pizza and sodas will be served.
RSVP to Carol
Cron.
Thursday, September 8, 12:00 noon - 2:00 p.m. --
3rd Floor Atrium, Van Munching Hall
Dingman Process
Workshop
This
informative 75 - 90 minute workshop explains the
Dingman Process, which consists of Ideation,
Assessment, Implementation, and Iteration.
The most
successful entrepreneurs are not necessarily those
with the most innovative ideas, but those who can
find gaps in the market and develop products to meet
consumers' needs.
The Dingman
Process helps entrepreneurs systematically analyze
and develop businesses based on this concept.
This workshop is presented once each academic year,
and this year it will be held at College Park as
well as at each of our satellite campuses for our
part-time MBA students. Light refreshments
will be served. RSVP to
Carol Cron.
Tuesday,
September 6, 5:45 - 7:00 p.m. -- Shady Grove
Wednesday, September 7, 5:45 - 7:00 p.m. -- D.C.
Monday, September 12, 5:45 - 7:00 p.m. -- Baltimore
Tuesday, September 13, 12:30 - 1:45 -- College Park
Women's
Entrepreneur Event
This event
is co-sponsored by the Smith Women MBA Club.
The event will include a group of dynamic women who
are successful entrepreneurs talking about their
experiences and answering questions from the
audience. A light reception will be available
before and after the discussion. RSVP to
Carol Cron.
Wednesday, September 28, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.,
Executive Dining Room, Van Munching Hall
Pitch Dingman
Competition
This event
is held monthly and is a follow-up to our weekly
walk-in Pitch Dingman held on Fridays at
11:00 a.m. Come to the monthly competition,
present your business idea in 5 minutes to a panel
of judges from the Dingman Center, and you could win
$500! For information about the weekly Pitch
Dingman sessions on Fridays or the monthly Pitch
Dingman competitions, e-mail Derek Vlcko at
dvlcko@rhsmith.umd.edu.
Friday, September 23, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m., 1518 Van
Munching Hall
Friday, October 21, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m., 1418 Van
Munching Hall
Friday, November 18, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m., 1418 Van
Munching Hall
Friday, December 9, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m., 1418 Van
Munching Hall
Dingman Day
Lunch
These
catered luncheons are open to undergraduate and MBA
students and members of the entrepreneurial
community. Two successful entrepreneurs will
talk about their experiences and answer questions
from the audience. Typically, a Dingman
Scholar will talk about their business endeavor, how
they got started, their successes, their failures,
and where they plan to go. RSVP to
Carol Cron.
Friday, October 14, 12:30 - 2:30 p.m., Executive
Dining Room, Van Munching Hall
Guest speakers will be our
Entrepreneur-in-Residence Dan Goodman and Dingman
Center Founder Rudy
Lamone.
Friday, December 2, 12:30 - 2:30 p.m., 3rd floor
atrium, Van Munching Hall
Dingman Day
Field Trip
This new
event will be offered once each semester, and will
be an all-day trip to an interesting manufacturing
plant, via one of the UM luxury coach buses. The day
will include a tour of the plant, a meeting with the
senior management, an opportunity for Q&As with the
management team, and will end with a fun activity on
the return trip to College Park. There will
be a $20.00 per person charge for this event.
The bus will leave Van Munching Hall at 8:00 a.m.
and will be back in College Park at 5:00 p.m. For
more information, e-mail Ori Zohar at
ozohar@umd.edu.
Friday, October 28, Trip to Mack Truck Facility
Back-2-Basics
Panel Discussion
This
popular event returns with proposed discussions
about family run businesses, marketing your
business, financing your business, and exiting your
business. The typical format includes two
entrepreneurs who are highly experienced in the
given topic, along with two Smith faculty who are
experts on the topic. Light
refreshments will be served.
RSVP to
Carol Cron.
Tuesday, October 18, 5:45 - 7:00 p.m., University of
Maryland's Shady Grove Campus
"Financing Your Business," with a panel to include:
Shawn Goozman, Vice President, Silicon Valley Bank
Charles Heller, Managing Director, Beacon Global
Private Equity
Thursday, December 1, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m., 1206, Van Munching Hall,
College Park
"Exiting Your Business," with a panel to include:
Lee McGee, Principal, Sterling Partners
Bill Cole, Partner, Ernst & Young
Bob Baum, Associate Professor at Smith School of
Business
Speaker
Event -- Ronald Reagan Building, Washington, D.C.
This
returning event will feature a well-known and
dynamic speaker who will engage and capture the
audience with their experiences as a highly
successful entrepreneur. A reception will be
held during which time the audience can network with
each other, Smith faculty who are present, and the
evening's speaker.
More details about this exciting speaker will be in
the next Dingman Center newsletter.
RSVP to
Carol Cron.
Wednesday, November 9, 5:45 - 8:00 p.m., Ronald
Reagan Building, Washington,
D.C.
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CAPITAL ACCESS NETWORK BECOMES MORE ACTIVE
WITH
MONTHLY "CAN BREAKFASTS"
The Dingman
Center for Entrepreneurship's Capital Access
Network sponsored by
Deloitte & Touche,
facilitates funding relationships between
angel investors and Maryland start-ups, and
provides access to seed- and early-stage
capital.
Silicon Valley Bank
also recently joined CAN as a sponsor.
Operational
since November 2003, CAN has expanded its
offerings this year. The Dingman Center
partnered with the
Chesapeake Innovation Center,
Emerging Technology Centers,
Montgomery Technology Development Center
and
Silver Spring Innovation Center.
The four incubators and the Dingman Center
feed presenters into CAN.
Beginning
this year,
Charles Heller,
current Dingman Center
Entrepreneur-in-Residence, past director of
the Dingman Center, and senior managing
director of Beacon Global Private Equity and
, will work the
Maryland Department of Business and Economic
Development (DBED)
post-presentation to further evaluate and
provide assistance to companies.
The CAN
Breakfasts are by invitation only to angel investors who
are qualified investors in the CAN network. They
will have an opportunity to hear a 10 minute
presentation from approximately eight start-up
entrepreneurs who are seeking funding for their
business. This event is tied closely to the
Mentor Day event. For more information on the CAN
Program, contact Susannah Campbell at
susannah_campbell@rhsmith.umd.edu. A continental breakfast will be
served. RSVP to
Susannah Campbell.
Tuesday, September 13, 9:30 a.m., Chesapeake
Innovation Center (Annapolis)
Tuesday, October 18, 9:30 a.m., Montgomery
Development Technology Center (Gaithersburg)
Tuesday, November 15, 9:30 a.m., Silver Spring
Innovation Center (Silver Spring)
Tuesday, December 6, 9:30 a.m., Emerging Technology
Center (Baltimore)
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The Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship
plans to reach out to more
students
in the upcoming academic year!
In our continuing efforts to
reach out to students at the University of
Maryland, we have expanded our focus on
undergraduate and part-time MBA students:
Josh Norris and Ori Zohar, undergraduate
business students, have been working on a
number of projects along these lines.
In addition to involvement in the annual
Open House, Norris and Zohar will be
representing the Dingman Center at the
campus "All Nighter" on Saturday, September
24. Space is reserved for a Pitch
Dingman Competition, giveaways,
demonstrations of entrepreneurial talent,
and more. Norris and Zohar have also
successfully launched an undergraduate
entrepreneurship club for this academic
year. Presenting the structure and
required documentation on August 30 to Dean
Pat Cleveland and the other business school
club officers, Zohar received approval for
this club. Managing Director Asher
Epstein will be the faculty sponsor for the
club.
The Part-Time MBA program will hear from the
Dingman Center more frequently this year.
The center will hit the road with not only a
version of the Dingman Process
Workshop at each of the satellite
campuses (Washington, D.C., Shady Grove and
Baltimore), but also two major events will
be held in Washington, D.C. and Shady Grove.
A major speaker event will be held on
Wednesday, November 9 at 5:45 p.m. in the
Ronald Reagan Building in downtown
Washington, D.C. The first
Back-2-Basics Panel Discussion on the topic
of Financing Your Business
will be held at Shady Grove on Tuesday,
October 18 at 5:45 p.m. More details
on both of these events will be in the
October newsletter.
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THE DINGMAN CENTER INCREASES THE
ENTREPRENEURS-IN-RESIDENCE AND ADDS TWO FELLOWS
TO ITS TEAM OF ADVISORS
The Entrepreneurs-in-Residence, Charles Heller and
John LaPides have been joined by Adam Lehman and two
Fellows, Mark Walsh and Dan Goodman, to expand this
integral advising component of the center. The
center's founder, Rudy Lamone, also works with
student entrepreneurs and financial supporters of
the center to help manage the Lamone Scholars' grant
program for MBA students who work in the Dingman
Center. Below is a very brief overview
of the many accomplishments of these distinguished
business people:
Rudy Lamone, Professor
Emeritus and Founder, Dingman Center for
Entrepreneurship
►
Dean of the Smith School of Business from
1973 - 1991
► Co-Founder of the
National Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers
► Ernst and Young's 1996
Entrepreneur-of-the-Year, for his work in support of
entrepreneurship
Charles Heller,
Entrepreneur-in-Residence
► Managing Director of
Beacon Global Private Equity
► Former Managing
Director and current Chair of the Board of Advisors
of the Dingman Center
► Professor of
Practice—Entrepreneurship at the University of
Maryland
John LaPides,
Entrepreneur-in-Residence
► President and CEO of
Snow Valley, Inc., a regional bottled water company
based in Maryland
► Has guided the company
through 20 straight years of record sales
Adam Lehman,
Entrepreneur-in-Residence
► Managing Partner of
Rock Ridge Ventures, a venture capital firm
► Has more than a dozen
years of experience developing new business
opportunities as a strategist, dealmaker and
entrepreneur
Mark Walsh, Smith Senior
Fellow
► As Managing Partner of
Ruxton Associates, he has made numerous technology
investments.
► Former CEO of
VerticalNet, co-founder of Air America Radio, head
of Internet operations and chief technology advisor
for
recent presidential campaigns.
Former Senior VP at AOL and founder of AOL
Enterprise, the business-to-business
division of AOL.
Dan Goodman, Technology
Commercialization Fellow
► President of Zernike
USA
► Is a serial
entrepreneur with more than 30 years of experience
in founding and running product, service, and
consulting
businesses.
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2005 - 2006 DINGMAN CENTER SCHOLARS
The Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship is pleased
to welcome nine new Dingman Scholars and one
returning Dingman Scholar to the center for the
upcoming academic year. Below is a brief bio
of each scholar:
Sadia Asghar (2nd year MBA
student)
Sadia Asghar was a Marketing Coordinator for
the International Licensing division at Discovery
Communications in Latin America. Prior to her
position with Discovery, she worked with non-profit
organizations for higher education development in
the Middle East. Concentrating in Marketing and
Business Development at Smith, she wants to pursue
either her own entrepreneurial endeavor or marketing
for a consumer products company. In addition to her
position as a Dingman Scholar, Sadia was also
elected as the first Graduate Student Senator to
represent the business school at the University
Senate. Sadia was a 2002 graduate of the George
Washington University. In her spare time, she likes
participating in marathons and hopes to complete the
NYC marathon one day.
Susannah Campbell (1st year
MBA student)
Susannah Smoot Campbell was a marketing
consultant and director with the Southeast's largest
and fastest growing independent communications firm.
She led the public affairs/nonprofit and
technology/telecommunications practices. Adept at
crisis communications, Susannah has trained more
than 300 media spokespeople. Her early career
history is a mix of museums and real estate. At the
Dingman Center, Susannah is the coordinator of the
Capital Access Network. She is a 1997 graduate of
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A
solver of puzzles -- crossword and logic -- Susannah
also enjoys going to the gym, reading, cooking and
collecting art glass.
Josh Kroo (1st year MBA
student)
Josh Kroo spent the last three years starting
and running his company Access Passport. Access
Passport is a marketing company based in Montreal
that specializes in reaching the student market. He
has also spent many summers as the Program
Coordinator at Camp Sprout Lake in Upstate New York.
Josh received his BA in Computer Science in 2003.
Concentrating in Entrepreneurship at Smith, Josh
hopes to combine his computer savvy with both his
old and newfound entrepreneurial skills to pursue
his dream of running his own company. While not
running his company, Josh can be found on the hockey
rink, squash court or attending as many live music
shows as possible.
Jordan Lichman (2nd year
MBA student)
Jordan Lichman is a California native from
Newport Beach. He graduated from the University of
California, Berkeley in 1995 with a Bachelor of Arts
in Political Economy of Industrial Societies. In
order to pursue a passion for wine, food, and
entertaining, Jordan enrolled in the Culinary
Institute of America to study the culinary arts.
While at the CIA, Jordan managed all production,
financial, and marketing functions at an award
winning boutique winery. Upon graduation, he worked
in leadership roles in a wide range of businesses in
the food and beverage sector, from an organic farm
in western Wisconsin, to his own culinary
instruction business, to cooking at the Inn at
Little Washington (a Five Star luxury property in
Virginia). Jordan hopes to leverage his hands-on
experience in small and distressed businesses, his
work with the Dingman Center and New Markets Growth
Fund, and his financial education to consult to
businesses in the hospitality industry. In addition,
Jordan is the President of the Smith Real Estate
Association and has two cats, L.G. and Priss.
Aimee Newell (2nd year MBA
student)
Aimee Newell is a first year MBA student
concentrating in strategy and finance. She holds a
B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Washington
University in St. Louis. During her final
undergraduate year, Aimee and another Washington
University alum founded an online resume referral
service dedicated to engineers which fell to the dot
com crash of 2000. Prior to business school, she
worked with a local political strategy group
managing activism strategy and software development.
Before her work in the strategy arena, Aimee worked
with a small entrepreneurial digital publishing
company developing virtual conferencing software and
scholarly conference scheduling software. Her
virtual conference software was used by the National
Highway Transportation and Safety Administration to
host the first virtual conference discussing the
driver distraction and cell phone use in 2000. At
Smith, Aimee is working with the Dingman Center to
bring emerging technologies from the engineering
school to market and is vice president of Net
Impact, a network of students using business to
positively impact society.
Aviral Singh, Lamone
Scholar (2nd year MBA student)
Aviral Singh has worked for some of the
largest hotel and conference chains in the
hospitality industry. Working in general management
areas, he has managed as many as eighty line level
employees within tight budgets to successfully lead
various departments in the hospitality environment.
In his first year in the MBA program and with the
Dingman Center he played a pivotal role in launching
Shop DC, a shopping magazine concept developed,
published and successfully distributed by former
Dingman Scholar Zoey Rawlins. Now in his second year
as a Dingman Scholar, and the recipient of this
year's Lamone Scholarship, Aviral serves as
the President of the Entrepreneurship Club. Aviral
interned with the brand marketing division at the
Hershey Company during the summer, where he
developed a marketing strategy for a new product.
Aviral plans to apply his professional skills and
knowledge gained during the MBA program to establish
a firm that aims at further organizing a niche
market in the hospitality industry.
Vikas Tiwari (2nd year MBA
student)
Vikas Tiwari holds two undergraduate degrees-
one in Mathematics and the other in Law. He also
holds one graduate degree in Industrial Relations
and Personnel Management. He is entrepreneur in
spirit and deeds. After working for a leading
advertising agency of Central India, he started his
own business of IT education in New Delhi. He owned
the franchisee of Aptech Limited, one of the leading
IT education company in India with operations in 54
countries. He also worked as partner in one of the
leading Public Relations and Liaison Company. At
Smith, Vikas is president of the Smith Store, an
online store selling Smith School branded
merchandise
Omarr Tobias (1st year MBA
student)
Omarr Tobias has served as a Naval Civil
Engineer Corps Officer in the for over 6 years. He
has served as an Officer in Charge of a 53 member
construction team, as a member of a Naval Mobile
Construction Battalion. He deployed to various
regions of the world constructing airfields, camps
and other facilities during hit tour in the
battalion. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in
the State of Georgia. In November 2003, he started a
full service Facility Management Company, Clean
City, LLC, specializing in graffiti removal and
prevention based in Washington D.C. Omarr was a 1998
graduate of North Carolina Agricultural And
Technical State University. In his spare time, he
likes to listen to and create music, dabble in real
estate, read, play basketball, football and just
about any other sport.
Derek Vlcko (2nd year MBA
student)
Derek Vlcko originates from Bloomfield Hills, a
suburb outside of Detroit, Michigan. He received a
B.B.A. in finance from James Madison University in
May of 2000. After graduating from JMU, Derek
returned to the Detroit area to work as an associate
for Conway MacKenzie & Dunleavy, a leading
turnaround consulting firm, highly involved in
distressed automotive supplier transactions. Derek
is a 2nd year full-time MBA student and Dingman
Scholar also serving as the Vice President of
Communications for the Graduate Marketing
Association and is a member of the Entrepreneurship,
International, and Sports and Social clubs. Derek
has chosen to leverage his financial background with
an MBA in Marketing and spent the past summer as a
product management intern at Black & Decker in
Towson, Maryland. In his free time, you can find
Derek in the student section of Terps football and
basketball games, working out at the Campus
Recreation Center, or relaxing at home listening to
music.
Valerio Zanini (2nd year
MBA student)
Valerio Zanini founded, as a young entrepreneur
in 1995, one of the first Internet e-commerce and
e-marketing companies in Italy. After gaining
substantial experience in managing client accounts,
formulating project proposals, and managing company
financials, he joined Cisco Systems, where he worked
for one of the most competitive teams, dedicated to
pre-sales technical support to the largest Italian
mobile wireless provider, TIM. He is a former
Lieutenant, Commanding Officer, in the Italian
military police "Carabinieri". He is also a former
member, and past-President, of the Rotaract Club
Roma Olgiata Tevere, sponsored by the Rotary Roma
Olgiata. In 2003 he co-founded an outdoor adventure
club in Rome and Milan, and was President in 2003
and 2004. At Smith, together with other students, he
founded the International Club whose aim is to
increase awareness of international cultures among
Smith students and provide a larger exposure to the
international market and its business opportunities.
Valerio lives in Washington, D.C., in one of the
most popular and fun neighborhoods of the city,
Adams Morgan.
THE DINGMAN
CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Founded by Rudy Lamone in 1986, the Dingman Center was one of
the first of its kind in the country and has emerged as a
top-ranked entrepreneurship center. Thanks to initial funding
with a generous grant from Michael D. Dingman, founder of the
Signal Corporation (now part of Honeywell International), the
Dingman Center continues to grow as a regional and national
catalyst in the field of entrepreneurship. The Center is now
aggressively evolving, and in some areas, is expanding its
services to further its role as a leader in the student,
regional, and academic entrepreneurial communities.
The Dingman Center is currently led by:
Asher Epstein, Managing Director
Dr. Charles Heller, Chairman of the Board and Director Emeritus
Dr. Scott Koerwer, Associate Dean, Executive Education,
Entrepreneurship, and
Marketing, Communications
Please visit our website at
http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/dingman .
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Previous
2005 Issues of Dingman Center
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July, 2005
June, 2005
May, 2005
April, 2005
March, 2005
February, 2005
January, 2005
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