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SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

They had this great architecture, and Apple had figured out to get movies into their own computers for a demo, but for the rest of us there was no physical device that allowed an average consumer to plug a video camera or VCR into and get video into a Mac. Adobe renamed ReelTime to Adobe Premiere. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!

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The End Of The Road For Web Services

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Although I know many brilliant software engineers who worked unexpected miracles with Web Services, implementation by the common corporate programmer was stodgy in every case I heard about. About Us | Contact Us Privacy Policy Advertise with us All Topics Webcasts Search Computerworld UK Site Map. startupcto

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Customer Development is Not a Focus Group

Steve Blank

One of the times I screwed this up it left a legacy of 25 years of questionable design in microprocessor architecture. As the engineers were busy rearchitecting the original Stanford MIPS chip into a commercial product, one of my jobs was to find out what features customers wanted. Are you out of your !? *x! No, not really.

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One of the Most Time Consuming Startup Roadblocks

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Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Outsource your product architecture? Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? at 3:03 am To x: The point is that as a software engineer you get obsessed with irrelevant detail. Check out my book Subscribe via RSS Thousands of entrepreneurs cant be wrong.

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

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Subscribe to comments with RSS. The vast majority of patterns and architecture patterns that we see in PHP, Ruby and other scripting languages are incomplete implementations of stuff the Java and C# guys created. It is clear that good software engineers avoid you. Really skillful software engineers do not use.NET.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

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But what I think was hard, and it was something he couldnt consider was that it would be harder to find a *maintaining* programmer, and how much it would cost to run the software, because of technical details he didnt understand. So, while your post is a good summary (of things that cant be learned quickly. feature set.