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Emerging Technology Centers upping outreach efforts [Links Roundup]

Also: find out why 70 percent of tech startups die an early death.

The AccelerateBaltimore demo day, held at ETC in May 2014. (Photo by Tyler Waldman)

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Five questions with Andrew Coy of the Digital Harbor Foundation [Baltimore Sun]: “A few years ago, when Andrew Coy was a teacher at Digital Harbor High School, he offered his students a chance to learn Web design. He quickly realized those sorts of extracurricular activities were lacking, even at the tech-savvy institution in Federal Hill.”

Emerging Technology Centers wants to be ‘as Baltimore as crab cakes or Natty Boh’ [Baltimore Business Journal]: “The Emerging Technology Centers is ramping up its marketing and outreach in an effort to make its brand more recognizable beyond Baltimore’s technology startup community.”

5 reasons your tech startup is likely to fail [Baltimore Business Journal]: “Launching a company is hard and keeping it in businesses can be even harder. Research by New York firm CB Insights suggests that 70 percent of technology startups die about 20 months after their last venture capital round and after raising a total of about $1.3 million.”

Companies: Digital Harbor High School / Emerging Technology Centers (ETC Baltimore) / Digital Harbor Foundation / CB Insights
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