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

Steve Blank

BTW, when the customers were “three-letter” intelligence agencies, contractors used an oblique way of talking about who they were working for: they were all referred to as simply the “customer.”) 1300 people were working on electronic countermeasures and electronic intelligence. By 1961 its customers now included our intelligence agencies.

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Why Crunch Modes Doesn't Work: Six Lessons

www.igda.org

Useful measures like number of bugs created and number of bugs fixed are viewed with suspicion that they will be used unfairly in annual reviews (or gamed by clever programmers in anticipation of annual reviews or performance bonuses). Archived at Mischievous Ramblings. hour-per week super crunch. Author Bio.

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Global Nuances of Startup Compensation

Altgate

 However, apparently it is not unusual for investors to demand side letters that confer much of the rights customary in a typical US preferred security, effectively creating a "synthetic preferred stock." "  I wonder if these have been tested in any courts…anyone had personal insight into that?

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