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Entrepreneurship
Female-led student startups pursue innovation in reproductive health products
Published July 5, 2022
The startup teams created products to help ease menstrual cycle tracking and offer a comfortable and sustainable alternative to traditional menstrual cups
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Tech Ventures
New accelerator to fuel student startups
Published Aug 27, 2019
FastForward U's nine-week program will be divided into two tracks for beginner and advanced student entrepreneurs
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Startups
Pledge to give back
Published July 16, 2019
Founders Pledge encourages successful startups to pay it forward with support for current Hopkins entrepreneurs
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Tech Ventures
New innovation hub opens its doors
Published Sept 13, 2018
FastForward U Homewood features meeting and event spaces, plus a makerspace equipped with laser cutters, 3-D printers, and more
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Tech Ventures
A new hub for innovation
Published May 21, 2018
'FastForward U Homewood' set to debut this fall with a 2,200-square-foot makerspace and co-working space
Entrepreneurship
Five student startups get funding
Published Dec 5, 2017
Teams receive $5,000 grant plus mentorship and additional services from O'Connor Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Fund
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FastForward
Where startups get started
Published April 27, 2017 Photos
Johns Hopkins' 23,000-square-foot FastForward 1812 space in East Baltimore features offices, labs, communal workspaces
A new home for innovation
Published Nov 29, 2016
Six-story Eager Park building at 1812 Ashland Ave. will soon be home to Johns Hopkins' FastFoward East
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STARTUPS
Haven for innovation
Published July 16, 2015
JHU's new Technology Ventures helps bring ideas to the marketplace
Business incubator for East Baltimore
Published Jan-Feb 2015
University-run FastForward East will house nascent startups in dedicated space near medicine campus, hopes to build on success of Homewood-based accelerator / Gazette