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The Secret History of Minnesota Part 1: Engineering Research Associates

Steve Blank

Warlock was so large that it was kept at the ERA factory and operated as a remote operations center. ERA Disk Drives One of the problems code breakers had was the difficulty of being able to store and operate on large sets of data. 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

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Decades ago, in small towns and communities across the U.S., Instead, they employ old operating models that still rely on manual processes and assess risk with traditional methods, all cloaked as “new” and “alternative” because the application is online. It Takes a Village. banking was truly a relationship-based business.

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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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30 Entrepreneurs Discuss How Does Quiet Quitting Affects Entrepreneurship

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22- Reduces self-reflection opportunities Photo Credit: Georgia McKenzie Entrepreneurship requires an incredible amount of personal resilience and self-motivation; if you're going to be successful as an entrepreneur, you need to be able to answer questions about why you made certain decisions with confidence. Tell us in the comments below.

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Startup Lessons Learned

This struggle pales in comparison to what the Black community is suffering through. We must educate ourselves on the systemic issues the Black community faces and has faced regularly. Ahmaud Arbery: A 25-year-old black man who was pursued by armed white residents of a coastal South Georgia neighborhood, and murdered while jogging.

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How Individuals Are Turning To Franchising For Business Success

YoungUpstarts

Guests are already familiar with the brand, meaning it’s easier and faster to become ingrained in the community. There’s Karen Schmitz , who operates a Wayback Burgers, in Woodbury, Minn. She considered Wayback to be a throwback, back to when food was made properly and restaurants were pillars of the community.

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Nonprofit Organizations: How They Work and What They Do

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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. Because nonprofit organizations provide valuable services to communities, state and federal governments do not require nonprofit organizations to pay taxes.