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The Secret History of Minnesota Part 1: Engineering Research Associates

Steve Blank

Meanwhile the biggest and fastest scientific computer companies were in Minnesota. Sales in their first fiscal year were $1.5 During World War II the demands of war industries caused millions more Americans to move to where most defense plants located. ERA asked the NSA for permission to offer the computer for commercial sale.

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Retail Reimagined: 9 Trends for the Future of Physical Retail

ConversionXL

Retailers have proven amazingly resilient in the past year, as they’ve worked through the mass shift to ecommerce and balancing the demands of lockdowns and shifting consumer behavior. Before the pandemic hit, Minnesota brand TC Running had two brick-and-mortar stores and zero ecommerce presence. In a nutshell: the future came early.

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JonnyPops – Frozen Pops Business Comes Into Fruition

YoungUpstarts

“ JonnyPops is a homegrown Minnesota company,” says Wray. After obtaining the proper FDA certification, JonnyPops went on sale April 2 at the Cage, St. Brust says he has worn many different hats to create JonnyPops , learning about all parts of the process from marketing and sales to finance and production.

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5 Things to Consider When Opening a Car Dealership

Up and Running

The location of your dealership has an impact on the number of sales and profit you make in a given year. Average yearly sales, the costs associated with opening the dealership, as well as average payroll costs and weekly employee salaries in your area, are all factors that you need to consider. Dealership location.

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15 Famous Companies That Started As Something Much Different

YoungUpstarts

All businesses begin with a specific idea in mind, and although some stick to exactly what they started with, it’s much more common to find that a business has grown and evolved over time to keep up with changes in supply, demand, and even resource availability. The last of the textile operations were shut down in 1985. Delta Airlines.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

According to co-founder Rob Walling, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, “TinySeed is the first startup accelerator designed for founders who don’t want to raise traditional venture capital. By ‘structured exit’ we mean that investors can achieve liquidity without necessitating the sale of a company. —– TinySeed.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

It was just the command shell that demanded backward slashes. You use marketing and sales language, when attempting to make technical points. There’s so much demand out there for programmers/engineers, that good programmers can choose what they work on and in what language. At least they did not use (IIUC) colons like VMS.

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