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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 program expands to all of Startup Weekend’s 350 member communities in 2013 where it will be offered up to five times a year in each city.

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31 Great Ways Universities Are Using Google+

YoungUpstarts

Google Plus Hangouts are a great place for alumni to connect with other student, faculty, and staff, building connections and facilitating opportunities within the university community. Georgia Tech College of Sciences regularly shares great news about successes within the university community. Colleague sharing.

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The Proven Framework For Building A Thriving Community

Duct Tape Marketing

The Proven Framework For Building A Thriving Community written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Liz is a c ommunity design strategist, a community enablement architect, and the Creator of Return on Emotion. 15:20] What elements ignite a community when you’re trying to get started? [16:06] Like this show?

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How AI Can Help Universities Boost Student Performance And Improve Retention

YoungUpstarts

One university that has championed this approach is Ivy Tech Community College. For example, Georgia Institute of Technology deployed an AI-powered chatbot named “Jill Watson” to complete the automatable tasks of teaching assistants, including answering students’ questions on a messaging board.

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The Secret History of Minnesota Part 1: Engineering Research Associates

Steve Blank

For the next decade ERA would continue to deliver a stream of special-purpose code breaking electronic systems and subsystems for the Navy cryptologic community. When they couldn’t find any customers they donated the ERA 1101 to Georgia Tech.

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Getting Small Business Loans Right – The Future Needs To Resemble The Past

YoungUpstarts

Decades ago, in small towns and communities across the U.S., He co-founded Kabbage in Atlanta, Georgia, to leverage the power of real-time data automation through technology. The solution lies in using real-time data to get back to the personal banking that lenders and businesses enjoyed many years ago. It Takes a Village.

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The Effects of Typography on User Experience & Conversions

ConversionXL

There has been no conclusive evidence for either style of font that supports which is better for the screen, which is perhaps why the design community is split. For example, in the Google/IBM study, they found that serif font Georgia was read 7.9% faster than sans serif Helvetica, but that it was not a statistically significant margin.