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The Secret History of Minnesota Part 1: Engineering Research Associates

Steve Blank

Minneapolis/St. Just as Silicon Valley’s roots can be traced to innovation in World War II so can Minneapolis/St. Why Minneapolis/St. Serendipity came to Minneapolis-St. Parker was a ex Naval Academy graduate and a Minneapolis businessman who owned a glider manufacturing company and was well connected in Washington.

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Top Conferences In 2015

YoungUpstarts

If you are involved in information architecture then you need to be in Minneapolis from 22 nd to 26 th April. The sixth annual IA Summit is taking place here at the Hyatt Regency Minneapolis.

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Embracing Your Entrepreneurial Superpower Being Unemployable

Duct Tape Marketing

And one of my founders who has an ed tech startup focusing on AI in Minneapolis, he said, let me sit down and let me take the book and let me put it in open AI's design platform and let's see what happens. And the, this is what the AI came up with. I think there's a lot to that. Let's go back to South Africa.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter January 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

Perrigo, a maker of over-the-counter drugs and infant formulas, agreed to buy the assets of Minneapolis-based Paddock Laboratories for $540 million in cash. Twenty-nine processors will rely on the Sandy Bridge architecture, including 15 processors for laptops and 14 processors for PCs. It operates in 140 countries worldwide.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

Any sizable company would find it easy – as well as advantageous – to move their technology to Seattle or Omaha or Minneapolis to avoid the brain damage of auditing and accounting for and paying the taxes under HB 1192. Service-oriented architecture. Moving a manufacturing facility is hard. Moving a technology platform is easy.