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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. The most important of the crypto techniques were based upon either locating repeated patterns, tallying massive numbers of letter patterns, and recognizing plain text, or performing some form of “exhaustive searching.”

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

Up and Running

You’d dearly love to have high visibility on Google for organic search engine traffic and leads—but you’re being overwhelmed by big competitors with deep pockets and an army of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) specialists at their disposal. 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

I have to believe that Google’s search results will always value high-quality domain names because someone like me who’s investing a lot in the domain name itself, is also likely to invest in developing a high-quality website that will be relevant to users. Rob obtained a bachelors in accounting from the University of Texas Arlington.

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9 Things to Know About Influencing Purchasing Decisions

ConversionXL

Online purchases start with a Google or Amazon search. This applies equally to B2B - 71 percent of enterprise purchase decisions in the United States begin with research conducted on a search engine. says Dan McGinn, president of a research and strategy consultancy in Arlington. Then it was the family van. Now it is an SUV.

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

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. And that’s exactly why I love owning my own business. Thanks to Terry Kasdan, atCommunications, LLC ! #3- 3- Solve a problem I encountered.

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Philosophy Helps Start-Ups Move Faster (WSJ on the Lean Startup)

Startup Lessons Learned

Eric is espousing a different way to build companies," says Kevin Dewalt, 40, an entrepreneur in Arlington, Va., Eric is espousing a different way to build companies," says Kevin Dewalt, 40, an entrepreneur in Arlington, Va., Eric Ries is experiencing something different. Eric Ries is experiencing something different.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder

startupbaltimore.org

In Baltimore, I’d start by working at the Beehive coworking space , attending some Bmore on Rails events , searching for other technically-themed meetups , visiting the Node , and getting involved with Betascape. You want to scale up your search to form as many friendships with software people as possible.