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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

A Phone Call After I left MIPS Computers I was in New York tagging along with a friend (a computer architect whose products at Apple a decade later would change the shape of personal computing) who was consulting for a voice recognition startup. It would be the company where I actually earned the title.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Five Quarters of Profitability During the 1980’s and through the mid 1990’s startups going public had to do something that most companies today never heard of – they had to show a track record of increasing revenue and consistent profitability. Steve Blank (tags: vc startup) [.] tags: vc entrepreneurship) [.] carry on reading.

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Story Behind “The Secret History” Part III: The Most Important.

Steve Blank

Filed under: ESL , Secret History of Silicon Valley , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Bill Perry , ESL , Signals Intelligence , Cold War « Startup Ethics: Albatross or Essential? Bill Perry put us on the path to use Silicon Valley as a weapon in the cold war. I met him – accidentally – that very week).

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Love/Hate Business Plan Competitions

Steve Blank

These competitions started in the early 1980 ‘s at the University of Texas and have sprouted like mushrooms in the last 10 years. In exchange, these VCs/companies get early looks at new deal flow and offer aspiring entrepreneurs feedback and advice on their business plan. Just Google the term and you’ll be amazed.

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Founders and dysfunctional families « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

The last open hearth furnaces closed in the 1980’s.) We came in time to see the furnace being tapped, pouring steel out into giant buckets. Years later I realized I watched the end of an era. Let me know what you think. Does any of this match your experience or people you know? Comments and brickbats welcomed.

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Why Crunch Modes Doesn't Work: Six Lessons

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In most times, places, and industries over the past century, managers who worked their employees this way would have been tagged as incompetent — not just because of the threat they pose to good worker relations, but also because of the risk their mismanagement poses to the companys productivity and assets. hour-per week super crunch.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

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1993 ; Moriarty & Scheiner, 1984 ; Poulton, 1965 ; Coghill, 1980) ). Many researchers attribute the origin of serifs to the Romans, some claiming that “Roman masons … terminated each stroke in a slab of stone with a serif to correct the uneven appearance made by their tools” ( Craig, 1980; in Bix, 2002 ).