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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

Unlike Intel chips, MIPS chip architecture also made it possible to plug in a math co-processor. Personal supercomputer s meant yet again learning something completely new; new computer architectures, new applications and customers, new markets. to move their applications to our unique machine architecture.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? That means knowing whats written and whats not, what the architecture can and cant support, and how long it would take to build something new. Thats more than just drawing architecture diagrams, though.

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Ardent War Story 5: The Best Marketers Are Engineers

Steve Blank

We basically had a retainer with one of the pioneering folks in computational chemistry, who ported and tuned his company’s application for our rather radical architecture, and also acted as a marketeer for us in that (then quite nascent) field. Reply steveblank , on May 25, 2010 at 1:05 am Said: Tom McMurray.

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Vertical Markets 2: Customer/Market Risk versus Invention Risk.

Steve Blank

For example, complex new semiconductor architectures, (i.e. a new type of graphics architecture, or a new communications chip architecture) mean you may not know if the chip performs as well as you thought until you get first silicon. Reply Alpha Testing « Two Sixes Blog , on July 5, 2010 at 7:04 pm Said: [.]

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

Steve Blank

He complemented their elegantly designed minicomputers and made some astute comment about their architecture (now I’m rolling my eyes, their computers were dinosaurs) and asked who were the brilliant designers. Thank you, Jerry Sheridan Reply Amazing Posts « Shashank ND , on February 11, 2010 at 5:48 am Said: [.]

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Demystifying the Various Tax Exemptions: 501(c)(3) vs. 501(c)(4)

Board Effect

Community associations that are dedicated to preserving the community traditions, architecture, and appearance and representing such interests before authorities in matters related to zoning, traffic, and parking. In 2010, the Supreme Court allowed corporations and labor unions to register as 501(c)(4).

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Startups Lessons: Product First

Venture Chronicles

If we did anything egregiously wrong at Get Satisfaction in the 2010-1012 time period it was to under-invest in the product with the assumption that the existing product was good enough. Ultimately you need to achieve best in class but if you try to achieve that in the first iteration you will be hopelessly late.

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