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The Secret History of Minnesota Part 1: Engineering Research Associates

Steve Blank

Applicants were told that ERA was doing electronics work for government and industry. Unfortunately for the company they couldn’t tell anyone as their customer was the most secret government agency in the country – the National Security Agency. Costing $250,000 ($3.2 Each ATLAS I cost the NSA $1.3

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10,000 Startups – Startup Weekend Next

Steve Blank

Just a crazy idea two years ago, the class is now taught at Stanford , Berkeley, Columbia , Caltech, Princeton and for the National Science Foundation at the University of Michigan and Georgia Tech. The cost of attending a Startup Weekend Next is ridiculously inexpensive. 28 in more than 25 cities worldwide.

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Nonprofit Organizations: How They Work and What They Do

Board Effect

Nonprofit organizations exist in most communities and governments, businesses, and citizens support them in various ways for the overall benefit of the communities they serve. Nonprofit organizations are organized groups of people that form for the purpose of providing goods and services state and federal governments cannot do on their own.

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14 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Are Incorporating Social Entrepreneurship in Their Business

Hearpreneur

At FLYJETS, environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors are the driving force behind everything we do, and we seek to be proactive about delivering impact. Our free team funding app helps parents afford the increasingly expensive cost of youth sports by leveraging their everyday spends on things they’re already buying.

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The Effects of Typography on User Experience & Conversions

ConversionXL

For example, in the Google/IBM study, they found that serif font Georgia was read 7.9% Even more surprising, even though Georgia & Arial are still the widely used typefaces, an overwhelming majority of font pairings are outside the traditional choices. Now this is where it starts to get tricky. What were the results?

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

And then, once that curve is low enough, governments can dance, testing and tracking cases until the virus is eradicated or we develop a working vaccine. They didn't have experience buying bulk from the government things like masks or ventilators." The benefit of the hammer and the dance is lower, and also the cost is higher."

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Making a Dent in the Universe – Results from the NSF I-Corps

Steve Blank

While many government agencies use Technology Readiness Levels to measure a projects technical maturity, there are no standards around Business Maturity Levels. It doesn’t replace private capital with government funds. And to our new teaching teams at University of Michigan and Georgia Tech – It’s your turn.

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