Steve Blank
MAY 28, 2009
Steve,&# he said, “you’re missing the most interesting part of vertical markets. 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.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 19, 2009
Other advisors provided marketing with industry-specific advice in our initial vertical markets (computational fluid dynamics, computational chemistry, finite element analysis, and petroleum engineering). Some of these advisors from the academic community would work with our of VP of Engineering and help us solve specific technical problems.
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Steve Blank
OCTOBER 5, 2009
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.
Ben's Blog
MARCH 1, 2011
In my career, I have never seen a position in any industry with more varying criteria than General Partner at a venture capital firm. When we started Andreessen Horowitz, our vision was to build the kind of venture capital firm that we would have wanted to take money from. One night on my knees, here it comes, the prayer.
Steve Blank
JUNE 25, 2009
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.
Reid Hoffman
MARCH 1, 2021
Founded in 2009 by JoeBen Bevert, Joby Aviation has been working under the radar at a base in Santa Cruz, California to develop an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. Our model here at RTP is to deliver “venture capital at scale.” We have vertical liftoff!
Steve Blank
MAY 11, 2009
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.
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