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Jennifer Ives

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

New Entrepreneur in Residence Program Designed to Help Arlington Startups

Entrepreneurs will mentor startups in exchange for office space at Arlington Economic Development.

Arlington Economic Development on Tuesday announced a new Entrepreneur in Residence program to help advise, inform and grow the county's burgeoning startup community. Each Entrepreneur in Residence will serve for six months to one year, counseling and advising other area startups in exchange for office space at Arlington Economic Development. The first Entrepreneurs in Residence will be Will Fuentes and Cary Scott, co-founders of the Arlington-based tech startup Lemur Retail. The pair will hold regular office hours to meet with budding entrepreneurs and fast-growth startups in an effort to share ideas and best practices, according to a news release. They will also host quarterly workshops. “We’ve learned. We’ve made the mistakes, and we’re…

Saturday, December 1, 2012

Area Entrepreneurs 'Pitch for Charity' in Arlington

McLean-based TroopID wins Friday's contest at Arlington Economic Development.

The music blasting Friday inside the Glebe Road offices of Arlington Economic Development set the tone for a high-energy, two-hour event that gave 20 area entrepreneurs a chance to pitch their ideas to some of the top names in the greater Washington startup scene. Startup Virginia's Pitch for Charity event gave each entrepreneur one minute to sell their idea to a panel of startup leaders and investors. They got immediate feedback — and judgment — on their ideas and delivery. "We really have the opportunity to take this energy and this excitement … and create the future of this country," Donna Harris, managing director of the Startup America Partnership, told the crowd. She cited the importance of small, fast-growth companies to the overall…

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