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The Secret History of Minnesota Part 1: Engineering Research Associates

Steve Blank

The Army codebreaking group was the Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) at Arlington Hall. In addition, the only people with experience in writing applications for the 1101 were hidden away at NSA, and ERA was unable to staff the Arlington office to create programs for customers. This was not a harmonious arrangement.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

The University of Texas System is massive including UT Austin , UT Dallas, UT Arlington, and UT San Antonio. in the last four years we’ve seen a 250% increase in venture capital funding and have doubled the number of startup development organizations in our community.” In Houston, we are not just running, we are sprinting?—?in

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Story Behind “The Secret History” Part III: The Most Important.

Steve Blank

I used to work for a company located in Arlington, VA that had the CIA as a client. The “Good” Student » 14 Responses Shane Rogers , on April 6, 2009 at 1:37 pm Said: The names of ‘secret’ customers is funny. Their code name was UTR (Up The River) in reference to their geographic location up the Potomac River.

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Austin, Meet Dallas

Austin Startup

To start with the amount of risk capital — including angel, institutional VC, and other private equity — deployed towards startups was actually greater in Dallas than Austin , as of Q1 2017, with $6.97 In the early days of the current internet age, the center of Dallas venture capital was the Galleria area.

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