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SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

The Cinepak codec was written by the engineer who would become my cofounder at Rocket Science Games.) I was the Senior Technical Writer for SMac from 1988-1991. So over the course of a couple of weeks engineering cobbled up a board with dedicated silicon that could process the full bandwidth for NTSC and fill an entire window.

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10 Keys To Finding That Perfect-Fit Business Partner

Startup Professionals Musings

The reason is that any one person rarely has the bandwidth, interest, or skills to manage all the tasks required to build a business. I realize now that these two were near-perfect co-founders, with Bill having the technical passion, and Steve bringing the business experience from his prior stint at Procter and Gamble.

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Episode 3: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. But you know it’s one of those things where we’re big users of Skype and we can get on the phone and talk and that’s a very high bandwidth kind of thing. How to move from a free to a paid product without losing all your users.

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