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The Secret History of Minnesota Part 1: Engineering Research Associates

Steve Blank

Designed by the Navy’s OPS-20-G team and built at National Cash Register (NCR) in Dayton, this same Computing Machine Lab would build ~25 other types of electromechanical and optical machines , some the size of a room with 3,500 tubes , to assist in breaking Japanese and German codes. The company hit the ground running. Costing $250,000 ($3.2

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Celebrate excellence in governance: Nominate a leader for the Modern Governance 100 Awards!

Board Effect

We are thrilled to announce that nominations are now open for the Diligent Modern Governance 100 Awards. The MG100 Awards, as they’re commonly known, is a prestigious recognition program celebrating the exceptional contributions of governance, risk, audit and compliance professionals around the world. What happens next?

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10,000 Startups – Startup Weekend Next

Steve Blank

The class teaches founders how to dramatically reduce their failure rate through the combination of business model design, customer development and agile development using the Startup Owners Manual. They may be privately run but often are non-profit, attached to a university or in some locations a local government.

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The Effects of Typography on User Experience & Conversions

ConversionXL

In D Bonn Tennet’s excellent article, “ 16 Pixels For Body Copy, Anything Else Is A Costly Mistake ” He walks us through some very compelling evidence as to why 16px should be the standard for body copy in web design. For example, in the Google/IBM study, they found that serif font Georgia was read 7.9%

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Invest in Israel Newsletter October 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

BigBand Networks, which has more than 200 customers in North America, Asia and Europe, provides broadband service providers with digital video networking solutions designed to make it easier to distribute, manage and monetize video. Israel Corporation is Israel’s largest holding company.

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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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Odis Jones Explains How to Strengthen Your Rural Community’s Economy

The Startup Magazine

million dollars in local and state government revenue. Douglas, Georgia revived its downtown through a streetscape project funded partially by a federal Transportation Enhancements grant. The Greater Paducah region generated $39.9 million dollars in 2007, all of it owing to the nonprofit arts and culture organizations that are present.