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Techies? Write Your Own Ticket In Southern California

blog.socaltech.com

I’ve covered this topic many times before, but I keep coming back to it, because everytime I turn around I’m talking with both startups and established companies in Southern California who are telling me they are looking for technical talent to join their company. Tags: Jobs Southern California.

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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

Forget the Hypertext idea and come on back to California. 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.

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Relentless – The Difference Between Motion And Action

Steve Blank

This required convincing software vendors to move their applications to our unique machine architecture. Not a trivial job considering our computer was one of the first parallel architectures, and our compiler required specific knowledge of our vector architecture to get the most out of it.

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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. In these markets it’s all about invention risk.

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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.

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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. I was surprised to see that they were in the room.

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It’s Back & Better Than Ever! Announcing NextView’s Everyday Economy Virtual Accelerator

View from Seed

In our initial blog post , we outlined our decision to step away from the universally accepted architecture of what an accelerator “should” look like. Benchmark Labs: San Diego, California. Comet Health: San Francisco, California . Allay Health: Seattle, Washington. Jambb: Boston, Massachusetts . Higher: Birmingham, Alabama .

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