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War Story 3: Don’t Figure It Out, Find Out

By August Turak on July 29, 2010

When I was an undergraduate at the University of Pittsburgh, I was invited to take a graduate course at a professor’s home with students many years my senior. One day the word “anthropomorphic” came up. Ignorant of its meaning, I fashioned [...]

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War Story 2: Scavenger Hunts, Scamps, and Guerrilla Marketing

By August Turak on May 15, 2010

I made my bones in guerrilla marketing when I was just 11. I was at summer camp when [...]

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