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By Amy Dusto (Writer, Discovery News) Baltimore -- A city full of talent and ideas, the raw material for beginning businesses. Yet the actual amount of entrepreneurship happening doesn't always seem to match. Local entrepreneur and programmer Mike Subelsky noticed this and decided to give well-intentioned visionaries a kick start. He created a proposal for "Startup City," a twelve week summer program offering free workspace in Baltimore, $15,000 of seed money, mentoring, and workshops for ten lucky entrepreneurs, all to help them blossom.

"The actual problem we're solving is to tell the story for these ten companies in a visible way, [the story] about people struggling and succeeding," Subelsky says, "to show it's doable." The city should subsequently benefit from the action of more than just whirling brains, but solid ideas going into motion with economic development attached. As Subelsky drafted in the Startup City proposal, "All we need are a few success stories to create a chain-reaction of entrepreneurship." Then he sat on it for about a year, until one day his friend and tech-scene colleague Monica Beeman, founder of Vines to Vino and regional director of small business lender FundingUniverse Maryland, asked him, "Why isn't anything happening with this? Let's do this."

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