June 10, 2003
Baltimore Venture Mentors Adds Three to Leadership Team, Unveils New Coaching Methodology
Baltimore, Md. June 10, 2003 Baltimore Venture Mentors (BVM), a philanthropic organization that coaches early-stage companies, announced today that it has added three executives from the Greater Baltimore area to its leadership team: Ann Lansinger, Chris Foster and Denise Kitchel. Having mentored 22 companies since its inception in late 2001, BVM has also revised its coaching methodology to further assist start-ups seeking counsel on various facets of business, including business modeling, operations, finance, legal, sales, and other areas critical to the growth of young companies.
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June 1, 2002
1st Aid
Can three guys with virtually no business experience leverage a good idea and nonprofit management know-how into a successful software company - one that creates a national standard for the market it aims to serve? It's a question Steve Butz and his partners have set out to answer.
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October 29, 2001
Baltimore Venture Mentors Aims to Strengthen Entrepreneurial Spirit and Success in Baltimore Region
Baltimore, MD - October 29, 2001 - The newly formed Baltimore Venture Mentors today announced that it will begin accepting applications for its pro bono mentoring program. Designed to help entrepreneurs through both challenging and healthy economic markets, the organization will help coach companies in implementing their ideas into solid and viable business models...
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October 24, 2001
Mentoring Tech Startups
Area Industry Vets Lend Their VC Expertise
As a founding partner of TidePoint, the now-defunct technology infrastructure company that once was considered one of Baltimore’s most promising tech startups, Paul Mauritz still has regrets about the people who were hurt and the venture capital money that was lost when things unraveled...
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