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The Secret History of Minnesota Part 1: Engineering Research Associates

Steve Blank

The Navy’s was called CSAW ( Communications Supplemental Activity Washington ) also known as OPS-20-G. Parker was a ex Naval Academy graduate and a Minneapolis businessman who owned a glider manufacturing company and was well connected in Washington. Other nations try to read those messages by attempting to break those codes.

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Entrepreneurs and the Wikipedia Road Map

The Startup Magazine

To test the power of Wikipedia, do a Google search of any organization that has an article. Google Search Results Showing Wikipedia Company Frame. Google Search Results Showing Wikipedia Company Frame. New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, Reuters, Bloomberg ). You don’t need to create more hurdles.

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7 Reasons Businesses Need Expert Online Visibility

YoungUpstarts

In fact, 4 out of 5 consumers use search engines to get information about businesses, products, and services. In Yelp, you write your business address as “1234 Washington Avenue” and in Citysearch, you write it as “1234 Washington Ave.”

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Social Discovery Is Pushing Search and Social Closer

www.readwriteweb.com

Social Discovery Is Pushing Search and Social Closer. Persistent rumors of a Facebook search engine, Google s efforts to integrate Google+ into its search results and Microsofts addition of Facebook tagging into Bing results. Social Search Is the Web’s New Disruptor. Dave Copeland · posted 4 hours ago.

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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 8, 2009 What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups? Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 So heres my simple question: What do folks in Washington need to know about the global community of entrepreneurs?

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Search versus Execute

Steve Blank

I was in Washington D.C. Search Versus Execution. However, we now know that a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. If your business model is unknown – that is just a set of untested hypotheses- you are a startup searching for a repeatable business model.

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The New Job Search

YoungUpstarts

by Maureen Francisco, author of “ It Takes Moxie “ The job search landscape continues to change every year. You never know who’s searching. It’s been more than ten years since we worked together at a TV station in Yakima, Washington, where he was the sports anchor and I was the weekend anchor. Join Organizations.

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