Frank DeSantis

Stanley Black & Decker’s in-house entrepreneur visits campus

Even though Frank DeSantis was speaking at the weekly Entrepreneurship Unplugged yesterday, he started his talk with the blunt admission, “I am not an entrepreneur.”

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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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