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2005
Entrepreneur
Weekly Interviews Dingman Director Asher
Epstein
December 5, 2005
Entrepreneur Weekly recently
interviewed Dingman Director Asher Epstein.
The topic under discussion was the Dingman
Center's unique role in assisting local
entrepreneurs for the past twenty years.
Mr. Epstein explained that the Dingman Center
tries to spot market opportunities and then
make sure that entrepreneurs are aware of
them. Several success stories were
mentioned, such as Kevin Plank's
Under
Armour, Zoey Rawlins'
Shop DC, as well as the
Hook & Ladder Brewing Company.
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Gazette.Net
Profiles Hook & Ladder Brewing Company as
a Dingman Success Story
November 30, 2005
Gazette.Net
profiled Hook & Ladder Brewing Company,
explaining that the Fleischer brothers got
their idea to start their own brewing company
during the microbrew craze of the 90s.
After moving here from California, Matt
Fleischer became involved with Dingman Center.
Matt graduated in May with a master's degree
and $10,000 startup money from the center,
and adapted the business model he had out
West for the East Coast beer drinker.
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Maryland
International Features the Dingman Center's
China Business Plan Competition
October 13, 2005 The Dingman Center's
China business plan competition was
mentioned in the Fall I edition of Maryland
International. The competition, which
was co-sponsored with
Zero2IPO,
will strengthen the business school's presence
in China fast-growing economy.
“We recognize the importance of having a
business presence in China,” emphasizes
[Dingman director] Epstein, “and want to
share best practices in entrepreneurship
gained from a twenty-year operating history
at the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship.”
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Maryland
to Open Second Business Office in China
October 5, 2005 The state Department
of Business and Economic Development (DBED)
has opened its second office in China, and
Dingman Center fellow Dan Goodman was interviewed
about it. "It's not surprising that
[DBED] is opening another office," said
Dan Goodman.
The Shanghai office teamed up with the Smith
School this year to manage the school's
executive MBA program in Shanghai. The school
launched the same program in Beijing in
2003. DBED "has been very aggressive"
in expanding Maryland's presence," Goodman
said. "I think it's a good thing."
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Chinese Entrepreneurs
Win US$45K in Smith China Business Plan
Competition
September 27, 2005 Three emerging
entrepreneurs just moved a step closer to
being business titans of tomorrow. Winners
of the Robert H. Smith School of Business
China Business Plan Competition, a three-part
contest in which entrepreneurs presented
their business ideas to compete for a total
of US$45,000 in prizes, were announced on
Friday, September 23, in a final round event
held in Beijing, China. After several rounds
of presentations and questioning by a panel
of international venture capital judges,
the following were declared the winners:
- US$25,000 grand prize winner – Renjing
Tu, ShenZhen QianRenRen Science and
Technology Development Co., Ltd.
- US$15,000 second prize winner –
Lufa Kang, K68.cn
- US$5,000 third prize winner – Yajia
Lv, Aquascape
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The Next
Business Plan Competition Will Be In China
September 15, 2005 The Washington
Post mentioned that the finals for the
Dingman Center's latest business plan competition
will take place on September 23 in China,
and will be judged my local entrepreneurs,
including Tien Wong , of Opus 8
, John LaPides , of Snow Valley Inc.
,and Dan Goodman , chief executive of
Zernike USA Inc. The competition
was mentioned at the end of an article entitled,
"Outgoing SI Chief Reflects on Success"
on page D01.
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The Business
School is Featured During a Maryland Day
in China
September 2, 2005 Maryland Day in
China is explained In an article titled
"'From College Park to Beijing" in The
Capital News Service. The article
explains that a special day for Maryland
puts Maryland on par with the University
of Cambridge in England and Yale University.
As for the business school, it will be $25,000
to an innovative Chinese entrepreneur who
has the most promising business plan.
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Dingman Director
Commends Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank in
the The Baltimore Sun
August 27, 2005 In an article titled
"'Perspiration led to Plank's inspiration",
The Baltimore Sun quoted Dingman
Director Asher Epstein as saying that Under
Armour CEO Kevin Plank is "really sort of
an entrepreneur's entrepreneur." Mr. Epstein
went on to explain that, "a lot of times
entrepreneurs get caught up with the great
idea and lose sight of the implementation,
and Kevin really focused on the implementation.
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Dingman is
Mentioned in the TechLink Publication
of
The Daily Record
August 2005 In an article titled
"'B' is for biotech in MBA program", the
TechLink mentioned The Dingman Center as
a source of aid for new biotech firms.
Healthcare Business Association's venture
capital conference was cited as an example
of the Dingman Center assisting the local
biotech community.
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The Number
of Math and Science Diplomas Needs to Double
August 5, 2005 The Business Roundtable,
the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National
Association of Manufacturers and TechNet
have banded together to put pressure on
policymakers and the public to improve math
and science education. The coalition
wants to double the number of bachelor's
degrees awarded in science, technology,
engineering and math by 2015.
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Dingman Director
Weighs in on Decreasing Entrepreneurship
June 13, 2005 Dingman Director Asher
Epstein was interviewed for an article in
bizjournals.com.
The article comments on the 20% drop in
the number of Americans starting or running
a new business during 2004. Despite
the nationwide drop, Mr. Epstein hasn't
seen a drop in entrepreneurship interest
among Maryland students.
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Shop DC
Gets Featured in The Washington Examiner
June 8, 2005
Shop DC, a new Washington magazine owned
and operated by Smith MBA student and Dingman
entrepreneur Zoey Rawlins, was recently
featured as one of three new magazines in
The Washington Examiner. The
magazine is designed to be a single source
for both Washingtonians and tourists to
find places to shop.
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UMD Business
School Students Interviewed on The NewsHour
June 6, 2005 Several business school
students were interviewed for
The
NewsHour with Jim Lehrer about the increasing
prevalence of users interacting with their
news sources, such as the rise of
RSS feeds and
podcasts. Their interview is part
of a larger news segment entitled "News
on Demand."
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Dingman
Director is Interviewed by The Daily
Record
May 20, 2005 In an interview in
The Daily Record, Dingman director
Asher Epstein highlighted some of the achievements
and goals of the Dingman Center. He
explained that the Dingman Center is only
nineteen years old, but it is already a
top 20 ranked school by the Wall Street
Jouranl. Its focus is local, investing
$20,000 in two student-run businesses this
year, while foreign opportunities have also
become available, in such places as China,
Egypt, and Israel.
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The
Daily Record Publicizes Mark Walsh's
Decision to Join the Dingman Center
May 20, 2005 As publicized by
The Daily Record, Mark Walsh, a managing
partner at Ruxton Associates LLC, will be
joining the Dingman Center factuly.
Note: you need a subscription to The
Daily Record to read the blurb.
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Baltimore
Businesses Get Fewer SBA Loans
May 3, 2005 In an article in the
Capital News Service, Dingman Director Asher
Epstein explained that the steady decline
in Small Business Administration Loans in
Baltimore could be the result of changes
in the business community, such as the rising
venture capital in Baltimore's high-technology
sector and M&T Bank Corp.'s 2002 acquisition
of Allfirst Bank.
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The Dingman
Center and its Successes are Featured in
The Business Monthly
May 2005 In an article in The
Business Montly, the Dingman Center
was featured as a "bustling hive of activity,"
with service for student, faculty, and regional
entrepreneurs. Among the featured
successes were Kevin Plank's
Under
Armour and Josh Norris'
Interactive
Magic.
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Maryland
Professor Archives the Burst of the .com
Bubble
April 15, 2005 David A. Kirsch, an
assistant professor who teaches management
and organization, has created an online
archive that chronicles the rise and fall
of Internet-related start-ups in the heady
and tumultuous years from 1996 to 2002.
About 60 percent of the companies in his
archive either disappeared or never got
off the ground, while the rest have survived
in some form, often in scaled-down versions.
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U.S.News
& World Report Mentions Dingman Center
as Aid to Student-Run Business
April 12, 2005 The Dingman Center
for Entrepreneurship was mentioned in an
article about how students are saving money.
Ori Zohar started a business buying caps
and gowns from students immediately after
graduation and reselling them at half the
original price to the next class.
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Entrepreneur Magazine Ranks Dingman
Center In Top Tier
April 2005 The Robert H. Smith School
of Business at the University of Maryland
ranked among the 13 national schools with
“Top Tier” entrepreneurship programs in
the April 2005 issue of Entrepreneur magazine.
For the third consecutive year and since
the survey's inception, the magazine has
included the Smith School, and the Dingman
Center for Entrepreneurship, prominently
among its annual list of the best 100 collegiate
entrepreneurship programs in the United
States.
According to the sixth annual Global Entrepreneurship
Monitor, a report measuring entrepreneurial
activity worldwide from Babson College and
the London Business School, 73 million people
across the globe are either start-up entrepreneurs,
or own or manage a young, but growing, business.
Among Smith School resources supporting
entrepreneurship is the Dingman Center,
a nationally-recognized, leading entrepreneurial
center that assists students and regional
entrepreneurs with expertise and funding.
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Biotechnology
Companies Learn How To Attract More Venture
Capital
March 18, 2005 The Business Gazette
featured the Smith School in an article
about how biotechnology companies are attracting
more venture capital.
USA
Today Features Article on New Markets
Growth Fund and Dingman Scholars
March 15, 2005
In an article about the $25 million
New Markets Growth Fund, a venture-capital
fund managed partly by graduate students,
recent grads Maya Rao and Michael Greiner
are featured.
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Dayna
Designs Makes The (Baltimore) Sun
February 27, 2005 Smith MBA Dana Lande
is featured in an article about her jewelry
company, Dayna Designs. She designs jewelry
for college enthusiasts.
http://www.daynadesigns.com
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