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31 Great Ways Universities Are Using Google+

YoungUpstarts

Georgia Tech College of Sciences regularly shares great news about successes within the university community. At Georgia Tech, students use Google Plus Pages to promote the latest updates on their research journal. Faculty, staff, and students can collaborate and share as a group with the use of Google Plus Hangouts.

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The Secret Sauce Of Start-Up Success

YoungUpstarts

Can a competitor’s product name be easily substituted for my company’s brand? Wain Kellum is CEO of Atlanta, Georgia-based VoIP service provider Vocalocity. As you develop your value proposition, think about the following questions. If the answer is no, it’s time to go back to the drawing board.

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How AI Can Help Universities Boost Student Performance And Improve Retention

YoungUpstarts

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

A contract for a system named O’Malley followed. When they couldn’t find any customers they donated the ERA 1101 to Georgia Tech. What Did ERA Build For the National Security Agency (NSA)? By the end of ERA’s first year, ERA had contracts for a digital device called Alcatraz which used thousands of vacuum tubes and relays.

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What is Brand Identity and How To Create a Great One: A Complete Guide for Marketers and Businesses (2019)

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Branding is a process designed to develop, among other things, a unique business name and custom logo design for a company, product, or service. But branding isn’t solely about tangible concepts like a company’s name and logo. A simple but effective way to do this is to ask yourself, “would [persona name] do [action]?”.

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Rediscovering Atlanta

Jeff Hilimire

What’s fascinating to me is all the names that, if you live in Atlanta, you hear all the time but you really don’t understand the historical context of them. Even how the name of Atlanta came to be. Originally Atlanta was named Terminus and then later changed to Marthasville (named after Governor Lumpkin’s daughter).

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The Texas Startup Manifesto

Austin Startup

Edwards, Texas A&M, Texas State, Texas Tech, and Trinity to name a few. The DEC and Trey Bowles in Dallas, Station Houston and John Reale in Houston, Geekdom and Lorenzo Gomez III in San Antonio, and Georgia Thomsen and Capital Factory in Austin. Texas has world-class educational institutions across the state.

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