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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

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The VP of Sales and I flew to Providence to convince Andy van Dam at Brown to join our company, or at a minimum lead our advisory board. Wasn’t he a CTO or something? (He I had last been in Chapel Hill on a winter’s day in 1986, traveling with the VP of Sales of our new supercomputer startup, Ardent.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

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Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. January 2, 2009 8:54 AM mancjew said.

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How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people

Startup Lessons Learned

Establish a customer advisory board. September 25, 2009 5:23 PM jchunter said. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha. Let them connect with each other, but also with you.

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Pivot, don't jump to a new vision

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, June 22, 2009 Pivot, dont jump to a new vision In a lean startup , instead of being organized around traditional functional departments, we use a cross-functional problem team and solution team. Each cycle was punctuated by a meeting of our Business Advisory Board (BAB). I like this term.

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How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees

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Equity for Board of Directors and Advisory Board. Typically for an Advisory Board it ranges from 1/10th of percent to 1/2% and for Board of Directors from 1/2% to 2%. Are there other tools that you’ve used that you think would be helpful to share with other entrepreneurs and founders?

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How To Build a Web Development Team Without Technical Expertise

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Startup Advice: Lessons Learned from Building a Development Team View What links here Posted by Fan Bi on July 19th, 2009 Over the past few months, I’ve explored a bunch of different ways to develop a website without a web developer on the Blank Label team. On a bootstrapped budget free is great.