SiliconHills

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Although innovation has become a buzzword in many circles it still rings true in Texas and the neighboring states of Louisiana and Mississippi, which all have NASA facilities. By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Rockets launching are a symbol of Texas’ rich history in the space industry.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 29, 2012

” Mark Twain, ”Old Times on the Mississippi”. . “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.” Atlantic Monthly, 1874. I was 14 once, then 21, and now 46.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

Bubbles are not new; we have had them for hundreds of years (the Tulip Mania , South Sea Company , Mississippi Company , etc.). (It also has the “smart money&# investing early and taking profits before the crash.). And in the last decade, we have had the dot.com bust and the housing bubble.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Hacking for Defense is now offered at eleven universities in addition to Stanford – Georgetown , University of Pittsburgh , Boise State , UC San Diego, James Madison University, University of Southern Mississippi , University of Southern California and Columbia University. Over the next year it will expand to 22 universities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Filing fees vary from state to state, but will fall anywhere from $50 in Mississippi to $410 in Nevada, including administration fees. For the rest of us, there are distinct advantages to staying close to home. Let’s take a closer look at some of these advantages: Arizona incorporation fees are low.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Mississippi State University helps process the data each year and organizes the results for the ASBDC. They also tend to last longer than the average startup, or experience greater survivability. How do SBDCs gather this sort of information? They conduct annual impact surveys with their clients.

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2017

Hacking for Defense is now offered at eight universities in addition to Stanford – Georgetown , University of Pittsburgh , Boise State , UC San Diego, James Madison University, University of Southern Mississippi , and later this year University of Southern California and Columbia University.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

Hacking for Defense is now offered at eight universities in addition to Stanford – Georgetown , University of Pittsburgh , Boise State , UC San Diego, James Madison University, University of Southern Mississippi , and later this year University of Southern California and Columbia University.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

JUNE 7, 2012

Today I learned from Steven Nalley at the Starkville Daily New that some Mississippi State students have pushed into the breathalyzer market and have done well with their idea ( Night and Day Vending ) on the business plan circuit. They chose to create a campus activity app instead. Parker Stewart is a true competitor.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 26, 2014

In celebration of the anniversary, we took the opportunity this week to take a family trip to Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee to expose our kids to this poignant history. We then drove to Oxford, Mississippi to visit Ole Miss. The things we saw, the people we met, the conversations we had as a family inspired me tremendously.

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Jeff Hilimire

MAY 7, 2018

It was originally published in 1969 and was inspired by Bobby Kennedy’s visit to the Mississippi Delta and the unimaginable suffering he saw there. Talk about books that change your understanding of the world, this book really rocked me.

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Jason Ball

MAY 25, 2008

It's not everyday that my hometown shows up in VentureSource, so I had to repost this: SMARTSYNCH (JACKSON, MS) RAISES $20 MILLION IN SERIES E?— — Industry: Vertical Market Applications Software —?. Credit Suisse Customized Fund Investment led a $20 million round of?series series E financing for SmartSynch.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2012

But in those days, as the Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company, the only thing they were sending was telegrams. It was this special skill set that Delta used to promote itself when it added passenger service in 1929, pointing out their “Pilots of Unusual Skills” as they flew five passengers at a time. Western Union.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 12, 2013

In the summer of 2008 the entire Upper Mississippi River Basin flooded and inundated ten square miles of Cedar Rapids, including the entire downtown of this community of about 100,000. It’s worth noting that Cedar Rapids was also home of one of the worst natural disasters in the past century. Surprised?

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MARCH 18, 2014

Sometimes they get invented by young, brilliant people who might be one generation removed from the third world (or Mississippi). Because sometimes the most incredible innovations, start-ups, don’t get invented by already-middle-class people. People who are a bit hungry for success.

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entrepreMusings

JANUARY 21, 2013

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

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entrepreMusings

JANUARY 16, 2012

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Try doing pushups and getting to 5 mississippi on the down and then back on the up. I switch back and forth every few months between weights and body resistance (pushups, pull ups, dips). Body resistance workouts are great for the 5/5 thing. Monday morning I do biceps, chest, shoulder overheads, and squats, one exercise each.

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

Mississippi. Mississippi. District of Columbia. Massachusetts. New Hampshire. New Jersey. New Mexico. North Carolina. Pennsylvania. Rhode Island. South Carolina. South Dakota. District of Columbia. Massachusetts. New Hampshire. New Jersey. New Mexico. North Carolina. Pennsylvania. Rhode Island. South Carolina. South Dakota.

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Small Business Force

APRIL 13, 2014

Now entrepreneurs don't have to be "Mississippi gamblers," but there are risks involved. Either way, focus is a critical skill that will be absolutely necessary for entrepreneurial success. Without it, potential success will be difficult to achieve. You're risk averse.

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Up and Running

JULY 16, 2015

By contrast, Stuart grew up working in his father’s law office in the Mississippi Delta. “We wanted ice cream that we make from scratch,” Emily says, “to showcase local, Oregon dairy, and using local, seasonal fruit, berries, and produce.”.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 28, 2022

I truly have a weak spot for entrepreneurs who don't let their past define their future and make it big after going through extreme hardships. Thanks to Nina Nguyen, Fraulila !

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Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2009

Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi Mississippi was the Training Center responsible for teaching 10’s of thousands of students a year how to repair radar, communications, and electronics. While the sharp end of the stick were the pilot and/or crew, each of these systems required a cadre of technicians to maintain and repair the equipment.

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Altgate

JANUARY 18, 2009

The three stories that the book is most famous for are the “economic bubbles&# specifically, tulip-mania , the South Sea Company bubble and the Mississippi Company bubble. I confess that when I first bought the book in 1999, it took me a full year to read it as it sat in my “reading rack&# in my bathroom.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

Since it was the military and I was a lowly airman (I was outranked by the rest of the entire air force), the answer I got was, “Don’t you know there’s a war on? Shut up and keep fixing that equipment.”

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

Stay Hungry, Stay Curious When these bombers got their first modern Electronic Countermeasures suite (the ALQ-117 with automatic wide-band receivers and jammers), I got sent back to school for three months (to scenic Biloxi Mississippi again) to learn how to repair it.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Mississippi. Mississippi. District of Columbia. Massachusetts. New Hampshire. New Jersey. New Mexico. North Carolina. North Dakota. Pennsylvania. Rhode Island. South Carolina. District of Columbia. Massachusetts. New Hampshire. New Jersey. New Mexico. North Carolina. North Dakota. Pennsylvania. Rhode Island. South Carolina.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 2, 2019

They went to a trade show in Tupelo Mississippi and you’re thinking, “Oh my goodness, really? They own a marketing agency, they were kind of burned out a little bit on the niche they were working with, and they wanted to try a new niche. That’s kind of a strange place to have a trade show.”

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

You should be especially suspicious of grants whose purpose is somekind of social engineering-- e.g. to encourage more startups to bestarted in Mississippi. Free money to start a startup in a placewhere few succeed is hardly free. Some government agencies run venture funding groups, which makeinvestments rather than giving grants.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 4, 2012

Artists like Johnny Cash, Mississippi John Hurt, Emmy Lou Harris, John Denver and Richie Havens made the Guild Jumbo 12 string, D50 and 55 extremely popular on the 60s and 70s pop scene. These guitars hand made by Guild in its Westerly, Rhode Island plant are still some of the best guitars ever made.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

She was the 2nd of 6 children born in Mississippi. Her father a young activist and was arrested at 15 in Mississippi for registering people to vote. Her parents claimed they were the “genteel poor” … they watched PBS and read books but didn’t always have enough money for running water or electricity. Stacey wanted to be both.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

New York, of course, being one of the epicenters for the pandemic in our country, but other cities being hit very hard, New Orleans and Detroit, and what's happening in Mississippi right now. So, the numbers in San Francisco are very different than what we're seeing in other parts of the country. Sydney Gressel : Yeah.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 8, 2021

He received forestry training at Mississippi State and a graduate degree at the Yale School of Forestry. The story starts with CEO Zack Parisa who grew up in the woods of northern Alabama. Since childhood, Zack knew that he wanted to spend his life among the trees.

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online.wsj.com

MARCH 4, 2013

Questions and Answers About HIV Cure The report that a 2½-year- old Mississippi baby appears to be cured of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has provoked intense interest, excitement and some skepticism among AIDS researchers and the community at large.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

Take the Bank of America, once the largest bank in the world, whose signature office tower on California Street was briefly the tallest west of the Mississippi. In the 1980s, the bank sold its tower to the late Walter Shorenstein, one of the city’s largest property owners and a mega-backer of the Democratic Party.

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