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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

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. I’ve convinced the team you’d be perfect, come join us as the VP of Marketing.” We were sitting in our cheap hotel room when the phone rang. Wasn’t he a CTO or something?

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Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores.

Steve Blank

These companies would take our computers and put their name on them and resell them to their customers. He even remembered the names of their wives and kids and some details about schools or events. (I The Consultative Sale Our sales guy then quietly asked if there was any way we could help them. Help them?!!

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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Do a curl (or your.NET equivalent) on each domain, and see how many are running a Windows server: I think you’ll find the fraction very small. Mental Pandiculation » Why I Don’t Hang Out With People Named David. Now name one that didn’t come from Microsoft? March 25, 2011 at 3:06 pm. [.] How about ABAPer?

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