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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

I had last been in Chapel Hill on a winter’s day in 1986, traveling with the VP of Sales of our new supercomputer startup, Ardent. We were on the University of North Carolina campus to meet with Fred Brooks and Henry Fuchs. It would be the company where I actually earned the title. This is the first of a series of posts on the company.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part X: Stanford Crosses the.

Steve Blank

Although this reseearch would lead to the development of the Backward Wave Oscillator and Traveling Wave Tube for military applications, Stanford was building tubes and circuits not entire systems. The prototype ELINT receivers built by the Applied Electronics Lab used the Stanford Traveling Wave Tubes.

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Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores.

Steve Blank

I was traveling with the regional sales manager who had called on these companies, gotten them interested and now needed someone from the factory to provide technical details and answer questions about how the product could be configured and customized. Convergent Technologies was one of those OEM suppliers. Their engineers hated us.

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He's Only in Field Service

Steve Blank

Reply Terence Pua , on July 30, 2009 at 9:27 am Said: Steve, I’ve read and re-read that section in Chapter 2 re: market types and I still don’t fully comprehend. There’s certainly nothing wrong with gathering feedback any time you can, and travel expenses are rough right now so you make do.

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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

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SolidWorks 2: The best VAR management program in the world? The high salaries and commissions for sales people, sales engineers, travel costs, and office costs add up to an extraordinarily high figure. Insides sales people are not only less expensive in direct salary costs, but also in travel costs. LIAD new to this blog.

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Email Deliverability: Get into More Inboxes, More Often

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Consider a hypothetical: Your data shows that 2% of your emails are bouncing, but an additional 10% are making it to the Email Service Provider (ESP) server then being pushed into spam. It also checks for bad links, missing alt tags, excessive load times, and more. The difference is important. Image source ). Image source ).

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

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Our development was a particularly complicated build requiring 5 developers, a systems architect, an html coder, a SQL specialist, 4 testers, 2 designers, a graphic designer, a project manager and a security specialist. Our team is 5 engineers, 2 QA and a project manager. But producing a professional and slick product costs money.