Things are quietly winding down here at Van Munching Hall as the students prepare for their last finals of the year. The Dingman Center has also been quietly rumbling along, preparing for our last batch of Pitch Dingman Sessions and our upcoming summer programs. How’re you all preparing for the summer? Whether it’s taking a vacation, or finally putting together that business you’ve been meaning to start, the Dingman Center will be here to support you.
So let’s move on to what’s worth reading.
Let’s start by taking a look at the Dingman Center’s week in the news. In case you missed it, this week’s Business RX column in the Washington Post featured Elana Fine giving advice to TouchdownSpace, a startup looking to enter the virtual office industry. In addition, Terpiture, one the finalists from last Friday’s Pitch Dingman Competition was featured on the University of Maryland school newspapaer, the Diamondback.
Often times, entrepreneurs have brainstorms for a business, but can’t articulate the actual business problem that their business idea will solve. Well never fear, this inc.com piece gives you 4 steps to approach understanding your business problem.
Many of you may know that Israel is also known as start-up nation. In fact the center has been building a relationship with the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) for years now, even sending MBA students to Technion over the summer for an immersive entrepreneurial fellowship. This latest inc.com article articulates just some of the lessons we can learn from the entrepreneurial culture in Israel.
As we’ve often seen, many of the technological innovations in the past few decades have come from military and government research, but did you also know that a lot of what we see as everyday items now actually originated from space? Tested.com takes a look at a few surprising inventions that were actually developed by NASA for use in space!
And finally, in the debate for the importance of higher education in entrepreneurship and career success, the side of education finds a champion in a local VC. In this Huffington Post editorial, Jonathan Aberman, venture capitalist and lecturer at the Smith School of Business, gives his impassioned take on the importance of education to entrepreneurship and our society as a whole.