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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. Sales in their first fiscal year were $1.5 ERA asked the NSA for permission to offer the computer for commercial sale. Parker became head of sales of the merged computer division. This was not a harmonious arrangement.

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How a Small Business Can Compete With the Big Guys at SEO

Up and Running

If you are a local business, you’ve got a better chance of standing out for “credit card processing Arlington Heights” than “credit card processing Chicago.” Terms with high-conversion potential are vastly more cost effective. Just make sure your more narrowly defined geography has a decent amount of search volume.

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4 Reasons To Consider A New Domain Name For Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

These figures come from the domain company Rightside which recently released a snapshot of many of their $10K+ Platinum Domain sales. Rob obtained a bachelors in accounting from the University of Texas Arlington. Companies like Stream.Live even went through a complete rebranding spending $20K on their new.LIVE domain.

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9 Things to Know About Influencing Purchasing Decisions

ConversionXL

Don’t delete negative reviews - they actually help sales if there are only a few of them. says Dan McGinn, president of a research and strategy consultancy in Arlington. If you sell commodity products, you might want to look into pulling reviews from an external site to have more of them. Then it was the family van.

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Will Grim Job Prospects Scar Today’s Grads? USATODAY.com Wonders

Campus Entrepreneurship

.”A lot of us are silly optimistic, sometimes,” says Amanda Frattarola, 22, who graduated from the University of Vermont in 2011 and found a job as a health and wellness coordinator in Arlington, Texas. Her job search lasted eight months. Basically professional day laborers.

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Purchase Decisions: 9 Things to Know About Influencing Customers

ConversionXL

They actually help sales if there are only a few of them and they’re politely worded. “There are huge incentives in consumer markets, even for competing companies, to make everything the same, ” says Dan McGinn , president of a research and strategy consultancy in Arlington, Virginia. Then it was a minivan.

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