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IBM: Where Corporate Responsibility is Not a Trend, but a Lifestyle

Austin Startup

Over the past few years, IBM’s Latina and female engineers from every background have lent their skills, robots, and even family members to serve girls in Latinitas with lessons in coding and career presentations that covered jobs from computer science to physics.

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Students To Make Biodegradable Plastic Bags A Reality

YoungUpstarts

But not if four University of Arkansas student have anything to say about that – the founders of cycleWood Solutions Inc. According to Cao, who has more than five years of experience working as a process engineer and wet-end superintendent in the paper industry, one million plastic bags are used globally every minute.

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How to Say Thank You :: Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct.

Duct Tape Marketing

The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. Candi Forney My Great Grandfather owned a fruit and vegetable store in a tiny town in Arkansas. Unfortunately we didn’t specifically ask for contact information, so if you see your story here, please contact us as we have a gift for you.)

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The ABCs of Starting an Investor Pitch Meeting – Always Be Credible

Seeing Both Sides

For example, ZestCash CEO/co-founder Douglas Merrill is a charming character and, even putting aside the shoulder-length hair and tattoos, you can’t help smile when he introduces his background (raised dyslexic in Arkansas, followed an unlikely path of earning a Princeton PhD, leading Google engineering and IPO in his role as CIO for 5 years, and now (..)

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Asif Zulfiqar

Altgate

As an HR expert and organizational transformation consultant, Asif has partnered with organizations in the telecommunication, hospitality, retail, transportation and engineering industries, operating across the globe to help meet future challenges.

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The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps – What America Does Best

Steve Blank

63 scientists and engineers in 21 teams made ~ 2,000 customer calls in 10 weeks , turning laboratory ideas into formidable startups. And to help teach these many teams, the NSF will recruit other universities that have engineering entrepreneurship programs to become part of the Innovation Corps network. Congressman Lipinski Gets It.

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Why AOL's "About.com 2.0" strategy will work. for a while

Genuine VC

The property finally came into its own earlier this decade when Google rewarded its deep linked pages when people were searching for niche subject areas on its engine. A metric-driven approach to content generation matches the algorithmic judgment of search engines. Disparate brands for consumers with a single brand for advertisers.

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