TEDCOs Entrepreneur Expo is back for its 10th edition [Video]

Back in 2010, when then-TEDCO interim executive director John Wasilisin was flying back to Baltimore from Austin, Texas, he couldn’t stop thinking about how his trip made him feel like “something was missing” in Maryland’s ecosystem.

Wasilisin had just spent a long few days attending myriad events in Austin and St. Louis, Missouri, where he met many entrepreneurs and established relationships with various players in their business communities. Both cities had a growing reputation for being “hotbeds” of entrepreneurship, but there was something about his time in Texas that fascinated him.   

He spent the entire plane ride home thinking about how Austin not only lauded the stories of entrepreneurs who achieved rapid success but also celebrated the journeys of those who’d failed on their first several attempts before ultimately bringing their ideas to fruition.

“I realized that we weren’t doing that in Maryland,” Wasilisin said. “We had a very disjointed ecosystem. There was no kind …