MBA alum and former Dingman Scholar Matt Fleischer put passion into promise to create a successful beer company Zoey Rawlins, founder of Shop DC and former Dingman Scholar, launched her business by following trends in the marketplace Run by students, The Smith Store offers promotional branded apparel, accessories and gifts The Dingman Center supports entrepreneurs throughout the Washington D.C. Metro Area and beyond The Dingman Center is located at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland

News Articles - 2006

 

Anger From 1 Ripoff + 2 MBAs = a Game Plan

November 6, 2006 - Here's how Jon Dugan's business idea was born: Last year, Dugan, a student at the University of Maryland, went to a used-video-game store with his brother and a pile of Xbox games. For a stack of 17 used titles, they got $34 in store credit. Out of curiosity, the two went back to the store the next day. The games they traded in had been put on the shelves with prices ranging from $12.99 to $32.99.

"We got ripped off," said Dugan, 23.

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Making It: Brothers brew success with their American-style beer

October 1, 2006 - Living in San Francisco in 1998, Rich Fleischer was making about $60,000 a year as a pharmaceutical researcher for Bayer, and had plenty of spare change to throw parties, travel and dine out.

When he decided to make beer for a living instead, his money started disappearing like foam on a cold one.

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AFP Cites Dingman EIR Dan Goodman as a Leader of the "Biodeisel Bandwagon"

July 21, 2006 - AFP , a foreign wire service, recently interviewed Dan Goodman about the emerging biodeisel industry.  Mr. Goodman is enthusiastic about the future of biodeisel in part because he has been successfully fueling a fleet of school buses with locally-processed biodeisel.

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BusinessWeek Profiles Dana Lande, CEO and Dingman Alum

July 21, 2006 - BusinessWeek.com recently interviewed Dana Lande, the CEO and founder of Daya Designs.  She describes a typical day in the life of a small-business entrepreneur, as well as the usefulness of her Smith School MBA.

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North Star Games Wins Cupid's Cup

May 24, 2006 - On May 19 the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship hosted the first annual Cupid's Cup business competition for student-run startups at the Robert H. Smith School of Business. Under Armour Chief Executive Kevin Plank, a 1996 Smith graduate, put up the $10,000 prize and helped pick the winner of this year's competition -- North Star Games.

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Geocentric Winds Award for Best Regional Interactive Application

March 29, 2006 - Geocentric announced today that the firm has been awarded the Best Regional Interactive Application Award in the 2006 Internet Advertising Competition (IAC) for its DowntownBethesda.com Interactive Dining Map. Geocentric received the award from the Web Marketing Association for Outstanding Achievement in Internet Advertising.

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Greensboro, North Carolina Selects Geocentric's Citylight Software for Web Marketing

March 28, 2006 - Geocentric announced today that Downtown Greensboro Inc. has selected Geocentric's Citylight hosted software service for location driven destination marketing.  Greensboro felt the need for destination marketing due to a major resurgence in pedestrian traffic in its downtown as well as dozens of new entertainment and dining establishments.

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A Day in the Life of North Star Games

March 27, 2006 - BusinessWeek.com chose North Star Games founder and former Dingman Scholar Dominic Crapuchettes to narrate a day in the life of a typical entrepreneur. North Star Games is currently trying to create a name for itself, so much of Dominic's day is spent trying to promote their most popular prouduct: Wits & Wagers.

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Eric Spiegel, CEO of eXpert Technology Solutions, Recommends the Dingman Center for New Entrepreneurs

February 16, 2006 - earthweb.com recently ran an article by Eric Spiegel, an IT entrepreneur that received guidance from the Dingman Center. In a summary of ways for entrepreneurs to get advice, connections, and funding, he listed the Dingman Center as a good example of an advisory program.

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Dingman Director Asher Epstein Comments on Google's Moral High Ground in The Baltimore Sun

February 16, 2006 In an article that seeks to explain why Google's stock price has recently dipped, The Baltimore Sun listed higher-than-anticipated taxes, lower-than-expected revenue, and attacks on its image over its collusion with the Chinese government's censorship.  Dingman Director Asher Epstein is quoted as saying that Google's cooperation with the Chinese government "undermines some of the high ground they wanted to take."

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Le Monde Profiles Dingman Fellow Dan Goodman's Biodiesel Venture

February 11, 2006 -- Dan Goodman is in the process of building his own biodiesel processing plant, which caught the attention of Le Monde, France's largest newspaper. Le Monde used Goodman's venture as a backdrop for the burgeoning biodiesel industry in America, which is rapidly growing in part because of the easy availability of waste cooking oil (one possible feed stock), its friendliness towards the environment, and the potential for biodiesel to decrease America's dependence on foreign oil.

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Gazette.Net Quotes Dingman Director Asher Epstein about EntreMed

January 6, 2006 Gazette.Net recently quoted Dingman Director Asher Epstein about the success of 15-year old EntreMed.  EntreMed is a local biotech company that has recently begun specializing in "small-molecule drugs that can hit and hurt cancer cells and tumors in multiple ways at once."  Mr. Epstein takes their staying power to mean that cancer research is "always hot."

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