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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Dr. Karrer taught Computer Science for eleven years. in Computer Science. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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MARCH 1, 2007

Dr. Karrer taught Computer Science for eleven years. in Computer Science. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Dr. Karrer taught Computer Science for eleven years. in Computer Science. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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OCTOBER 5, 2009

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times Ardent would be my third technology company as a VP of Marketing (Convergent Technologies and MIPS Computers were the other two.) We were painting a picture of hypertext on every desktop computer. It would be the company where I actually earned the title.

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MARCH 12, 2007

Dr. Karrer taught Computer Science for eleven years. in Computer Science. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Reply shiftMode » Blog Archive » Nobody Cares About Your Product , on August 31, 2009 at 2:30 pm Said: [.] The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution (part 1) « Steve Blank (tags: startups entrepreneurship) [.] When cash is tight, they go out of business – or they adopt a more efficient model.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2007

Dr. Karrer taught Computer Science for eleven years. in Computer Science. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Dr. Karrer taught Computer Science for eleven years. in Computer Science. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Dr. Karrer taught Computer Science for eleven years. in Computer Science. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Dr. Karrer taught Computer Science for eleven years. in Computer Science. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

Where were the books explaining why were all these chip and computer companies started here? The popular literature has the valley springing to life in the 1960′s with the semiconductor revolution started by Shockley , Fairchild, Signetics, National and Intel, followed by the emergence of the personal computer in the mid 1970′s.

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OCTOBER 12, 2009

Supercomputers With the introduction in 1976 of the Cray-1 , supercomputers were defined as the fastest vector-processing computer , one in which a single instruction performed operations on an array rather than a single number. See the previous Ardent posts for context.) Cray’s first customers were the U.S. What Markets?

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MARCH 20, 2007

Dr. Karrer taught Computer Science for eleven years. in Computer Science. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2009

Reply Naveen JP , on July 10, 2009 at 12:18 am Said: Hi Steve, I have been thinking about an earlier comment of yours that `entrepreneurship is an art not a science’ It makes a lot of sense and I thought I will share my perspective on it (the same as yours but in different words). How do I get in the room next time?

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MARCH 5, 2007

Dr. Karrer taught Computer Science for eleven years. in Computer Science. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Dr. Karrer taught Computer Science for eleven years. in Computer Science. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

They sold their product through the computer retail channel, something I knew nothing about. Yet somehow they thought that my prior experience in high-end computer graphics might be relevant. Why they were looking to me to run marketing wasn’t clear. They sold to a set of customers I knew nothing about. Nothing I couldn’t fix.

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JULY 16, 2009

While the Rocket Science press juggernaut moved inexorably forward, a few troubling facts kept trying to bubble up into my consciousness. Think of the Microprocessor, Personal Computer, Internet, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, Google, the iPhone. The mistake isn’t having a vision and taking risks.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Data Science DC. Data Science MD. Recommendation engines are arguably one of the trendiest uses of data science in startups today. A true recommender system involves some fairly hefty data science — it’s not something you can build by simply installing a plugin without writing code. Speaking Events.

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MAY 11, 2009

Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. But to get video to fit and playback on the computers of the era, they needed to compress it. So SuperMac engineering also developed video compression software, called Cinepak.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2007

Dr. Karrer taught Computer Science for eleven years. in Computer Science. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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JULY 13, 2009

At the time I was a true believer that Rocket Science was going to change the gaming world. The Digital Dream Team Way before the Internet phenomenon, we had created “Rocket Science the brand ” that was much bigger in size and importance than Rocket Science the company.

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MARCH 22, 2007

Tag Memes - Someone posts a question and "Tags" five people to give their response. Dr. Karrer taught Computer Science for eleven years. in Computer Science. See Five Things Meme as an example. Blog Hub - A central blog provides a place where the topic is raised and comments are collected and bloggers post.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part 3) « Steve Blank (tags: customer-development startup) Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)links for 2009-09-01links for 2009-08-13links for 2009-07-11Categories and Tags [.] A startup might simply not get a next round of funding and have to shut down.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Little Indians and Big Indians At MIPS Computers , my second semiconductor company, I was the VP of Marketing and defacto head of Sales. Different computers used different endianness. This turned into a dispute over the “right way” and led to war – just like it did for generations of computer architects.

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JUNE 25, 2009

The OEM Business Convergent’s business was selling desktop computers (with our own operating system and office applications) to other computer manufacturers – most of them long gone: Burroughs, Prime, Monroe Data Systems, ADP, Mohawk, Gould, NCR, 4-Phase, AT&T. I was surprised to see that they were in the room.

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JULY 2, 2009

A month later, after raising $4 million dollars (we literally had VC’s fighting over who else would fund us), Peter and I started our video game company, Rocket Science Games. Rocket Science 2: Drinking the Kool-Aid « Steve Blank (tags: vc startup) [.] There are still no laws like that in the venture capital business.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups « Steve Blank (tags: startup product-management strategy) [.] Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups « Steve Blank (tags: startups) [.] Reply links for 2009-11-02 « Blarney Fellow , on November 2, 2009 at 5:10 pm Said: [.] Reply Amit , on January 22, 2010 at 11:34 am Said: Great article!

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Let’s Fire Our Customers « Steve Blank (tags: product-management startup business) [.] New strategic direction in companies with loyal customers have different consequences then when you had no customers Acquiring new customers are a lot more expensive that converting existing ones. Steve Blank: Let’s fire our customers [.]

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FEBRUARY 23, 2009

I was between my 7th and 8th and final startup; licking my wounds from Rocket Science, the company I had cratered as my first and last attempt as a startup CEO. I was consulting for the two venture capital firms who between them put $12 million into my last failed startup.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Raising Money Using Customer Development « Steve Blank (tags: presentations presuation vc startup strategy customer-development) [.] Raising Money Using Customer Development « Steve Blank (tags: startups entrepreneurship) [.] Reply links for 2009-11-05 « Blarney Fellow , on November 5, 2009 at 4:16 pm Said: [.]

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AUGUST 13, 2009

Touching the Hot Stove – Experiential versus Theoretical Learning « Steve Blank (tags: startups) [.] 2-way search is still in the works but I have the semantic extracted tags (thanks to Zemanta) feeding in to many search engines (activate realtime frankensearch). It’s not a substitute for customer input and understanding.

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OCTOBER 8, 2009

Marketing is Heard From Engineering was discussing how sophisticated the graphics portion of our computer should be, debating cost and time-to-market tradeoffs of arcane details such as double-buffering, 24 versus 32-bits of color, alpha channels, etc. The conversation that day would become one of my professional watermarks.

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MAY 26, 2009

The next week in class a project group raised their hands and said, “Hey, Professor Blank, we found out the common wisdom in the biotech business is that “we need $10-20 million just for the R&D phase and 100’s of million to get through clinical trials.” “Of course,&# I said, “Life science is completely different.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 28, 2016

Artificial Intelligence is about to transform management from an art into a combination of art and science. Meetings will be recorded, transcribed, and archived in a knowledge repository. Show me a tag cloud of the topics my predecessor was spending his time on. What were the meetings where it was discussed?

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MAY 28, 2009

Reply Max Marmer » Blog Archive » Market Evolution: The Special Case When a Startup Has No Market Risk , on July 1, 2010 at 12:58 am Said: [.] We’ll talk about how to reduce risk in each type of market in the next post. VC money usually induces imbalances, which kill the company soon enough.

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JUNE 11, 2009

tags: entrepreneurship startup business) [.] AKPC_IDS += "499,"; (No Ratings Yet) Loading … Posted in Leadership | Tagged [.] The Adventure of a Lifetime Take the time and think through who you are and what level of challenge you are looking for. You’re not joining a big company. But make sure it fits who you are.

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