Startup Maryland announced a partnership with CoFoundersLab to provide the Maryland entrepreneur community with a free way to find a co-founder/business partner via the new TeamFinder portal.
The portal is the first component of Startup Maryland’s Connection initiative and aims to be a “go-to tool” to find that key team member to help inflect a startup.
“While the Startup Maryland TeamFinder has specific features tailored to needs of their community the best part is that TeamFinder also integrates with the full CoFoundersLab database of thousands of entrepreneurs,” stated Shahab Kaviani, co-founder of CoFoundersLab and Startup Maryland Champion. “TeamFinder allows extensive search and filter capabilities to narrow the search down to co-founder candidates with specific criteria, such as those people whom have certain skills, are part of specific communities (co-working spaces, accelerators, etc.), and have complementary entrepreneur personalities,” added Kaviani.
“A great team is critical to startup success yet good co-founders and management team candidates are often difficult to find for resource-strapped entrepreneurs,” stated Michael P. Binko, Startup Maryland co-chair and CEO of kloudtrack. “Startup Maryland is dedicated to helping our entrepreneur community solve this challenge and the TeamFinder portal directly addresses the need with an innovative, free and easy-to-use solution,” Julie Lenzer Kirk, Startup Maryland co-chair and Executive Director for the Maryland Center for Entrepreneurship (MCE).
The four primary Areas of Concentration for Startup Maryland throughout 2013 are Connection, Celebration, Coaching and Capital. These four guiding initiatives were officially announced last week at a White House reception during which Startup Maryland highlighted past successes and future plans for Presidential advisors and officials from several government agencies.
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