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March 16, 2017
Grip Boost Founders on Dingman Bootstrapped Discuss Funding and Unlikely Customers

The Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship produces Bootstrapped, a podcast featuring founders, investors and serial entrepreneurs.

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March 16, 2017
Ladies First: Women Learn About Early-Stage Investing at Dingman Center

Currently, only 25 percent of angel investors in the United States are women. The Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business is hoping to help change that.

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March 10, 2017
‘Pitch Dingman’ Winner Helps Fix Credit Scores

Curu, a website and mobile application that assesses spending habits and offers ways to optimize the user’s credit score, won the Pitch Dingman Competition on March 8, 2017, at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.

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March 7, 2017
Ursula Mead on Dingman Bootstrapped Talks Finding a Niche in a Crowded Market

The Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship produces Bootstrapped, a podcast featuring founders, investors and serial entrepreneurs.

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March 1, 2017
March 2017 is Smith Women’s Month

In conjunction with Women’s History Month, the Office of Diversity Initiatives at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business has organized March 2017 as Smith Women’s Month – a month of empowerment, enlightenment and education around topics of interest to Smith women.

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February 20, 2017
Elise Whang on Dingman Bootstrapped: Making Customer Acquisition an Easy Sell

The Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship produces Bootstrapped, a podcast featuring founders, investors and serial entrepreneurs.

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January 31, 2017
Five University of Maryland Student Startups to Compete in Pitch Dingman Competition

Each year, the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship hosts Pitch Dingman Competition, an opportunity for University of Maryland student entrepreneurs to pitch their businesses shark tank style to an expert panel of judges to compete for a total of $30,000 in seed funding.

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January 30, 2017
Dingman Bootstrapped Episode Encourages Asking Customers for Feedback

The Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship produces Bootstrapped, a podcast featuring founders, investors and serial entrepreneurs.

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January 25, 2017
Can the TPP Be Salvaged Without the U.S.?

SMITH BRAIN TRUST – President Donald Trump signed an executive order this week to formally walk away from the Trans Pacific Partnership, in what looked like the final chapt

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January 19, 2017
Our Man In Davos: 4 Takeaways from the World Economic Forum

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Several world leaders opted out of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this week.

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