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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. I would be lucky in my career to work with Gordon and three other people I consider as mentors.

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The 12 Days Of TechStars

Feld Thoughts

At first I almost just archived it on general principle. I decided that since it was a parody, it got to go in a different category than “Christmas-Music” in my brain and I tagged it instead as “Hilarious-Parodies Humor TechStars.” Eight mentor meetings. And then I listened to it. And it was hilarious.

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Advice for CTO Founders: Don't Let Business Kill the Business

www.informationarbitrage.com

Home About Press IA Capital Partners Archives After 17 years in M&A, Derivatives and Trading, Im spending my time with young entrepreneurs in and around financial technology and digital media. I have met dozens of brilliant technologists with fantastic ideas, ideas requiring nurturing, mentoring and support. Seek advice from a mentor.

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SuperMac War Story 3: Customer Insight Is Everyone's Job « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

I had two mentors with impressive backgrounds hammering into my barely 20-something head full of ego and visions of grandeur that I must always have dirt under my nails or I will fail. Facts are the rock on which you build your strategy and tactics In a startup second-hand facts are almost as useless as opinions.

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Not all good opportunities are good to take

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

my potential mentor is asking me to work with him! Almost in parallel, another potential mentor asked me if I was interested to join his project. We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature. I will learn so much thanks to that!” I will learn so much!”

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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

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Tags: startup cto job description startupcto. © 1996 - 2010 Reincubate Limited. XML sitemap. VAT registered #867 0159 09. Company registered in England and Wales #5189175. Highlights: What do you need to raise investment?

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500 Startups Hits the Accelerator Pedal (and Program) Again

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His network is broad, with a third of the mentors for the accelerator program also coming from outside Silicon Valley. The participants in this round come from a pretty diverse set of backgrounds, with over a third of the teams coming from outside the U.S. startupcto