Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship Helps Students Jumpstart Businesses PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 20 August 2009 16:17

About 40 students from across the University of Maryland campus are learning what it takes to launch and manage their own startups in the two-week Dingman Jumpstart program from the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship at the Robert H. Smith School of Business. The program runs Aug. 17-28 and was featured locally on News Channel 8 and WJLA ABC 7 news:

UMaryland Students Work With Alumni to Develop Business Ideas

COLLEGE PARK, MD - A new program at the University of Maryland is helping student entrepreneurs turn concepts into cash.

It's a business boot camp of sorts and NewsChannel 8's Mike Conneen says it's being offered by the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland's school of business.

The students are learning from alumni who went on to create successful businesses themselves but even those alumni say times are tough for entrepreneurs.

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