Baltimore’s first food incubator offers small businesses a recipe for successful scaling

If you want to start your own food-based business in Baltimore, it’s fairly easy to do. The city allows certain bakers and chefs to get licenses to sell products made in their own home kitchens.

It’s scaling up your operation to meet a growing demand that’s the tricky part.

Bottoms Up Bagels co-founder Joan Kanner and Michelle Bond shared their experiences trying to expand their food-based business with students at this week’s Entrepreneurship Unplugged.

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Entrepreneurship speaker series returns this spring

The College of Business and Economics’ weekly entrepreneurship speakers series returns this spring with a new name: Entrepreneurship Unplugged. The series started off with a bang on Tuesday, hosting not one, but two speakers; Josh Smith of TransitioningU and David Robson of SpiralMath.

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Towson U student entreprenuer talks beer and business

While Friday’s Entrepreneur Fireside Chat got off to a five-minute late start last week, launching late is not always a bad thing when  it comes to releasing your initial product, said student entrepreneur Bobby Gattuso.

“You have to understand and know when you’re ready to [take] those big steps. … [You have to] really understand when it’s ready to properly launch,” he explained to the group of students and faculty members gathered for the weekly chat presented by the Minor in Entrepreneurship and Student Launch Pad.

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Founder of restaurant deal-finding app gives straight talk about starting a business

You’ve “got to be cool with failure” if you want to make it as an entrepreneur, says Phil DiMuro, co-founder and CEO of Loople.

DiMuro spoke on entrepreneurship and his new app Loople at the second chat of the fall 2016 Fireside Chat Entrepreneur series hosted by the College of Business and Economics and the TU Student Launch Pad on Friday.

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