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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. During World War II the demands of war industries caused millions more Americans to move to where most defense plants located. The Navy’s was called CSAW ( Communications Supplemental Activity Washington ) also known as OPS-20-G. A year later, 420.

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Austin-based Favor Expands in the Dallas-Fort Worth Area

SiliconHills

Austin-based Favor, the on demand mobile delivery service, announced Wednesday that it has expanded to three more Texas cities: Arlington, Frisco and McKinney. Favor is also making every restaurant and store in the cities available for on-demand delivery with an average delivery time of 35 minutes.

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Find A Way To Love Your Clients, Or Learn To Let Them Go

YoungUpstarts

Professionalism demands you do a good job. Professionalism doesn’t demand you miss dinner with your wife to work on a client you hate. At LMO Advertising, I demand that our employees find something they like about every client. Why go the extra mile?

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Veteran-owned Business Closing The Gap Between Gender and Work Leadership Gaps

Hearpreneur

I came to the EDA at the very end of 1983, after working for a decade for Arlington County. At that time, development in Arlington was slowing down, while Fairfax County, which had a lot of land for development was becoming much more aggressive about attracting and retaining businesses and jobs, and generating wealth.

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Unfortunately after twenty years working such demanding jobs I was no longer able to physically do the work. While I was contracting for the US Army in Arlington, VA, I ran into a problem: there were no existing systems capable of processing a massive amount of data streaming in in real time. Photo Credit: Sean Matula.

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Food Truck Rivalry on Campuses | WSJ.com | Campus as Market

Campus Entrepreneurship

two companies that manage food services for universities, say they have seen an increase in demand for college-run food trucks, especially as a way to offer late-night dining options and serve remote areas of campus. Aramark Corp. and Bon Appétit Management Co., MIT, in Cambridge, Mass.,