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Rethinking The Way Companies Collaborate And Execute Business Processes

YoungUpstarts

by Nick Candito, cofounder and Chief Executive Officer at Progressly. Business processes span industries, both vertical and horizontal, and can include any type of business operation. Business processes span industries, both vertical and horizontal, and can include any type of business operation.

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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

The culture and work ethic of Convergent had earned it the title “the Marine Corps of Silicon Valley”. Unlike Intel chips, MIPS chip architecture also made it possible to plug in a math co-processor. A few days later Gordon became a founder. And so was his reputation for being verbally abusive to his direct reports.

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Learn your Austin ABC’s and become a local super-connector

Austin Startup

the Connectors, Angels, Venture Capitalists, Founders, Professors, Hackers, Press… and the Legends. Find the Connectors , the Angels , the Venture Capitalists , the Founders , the Professors , the Hackers , and the Legends you need to meet and get some hints about the best ways to meet them. Here is your COVID-friendly cheat sheet.

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Nike Accelerator – Powered By TechStars

Feld Thoughts

Our experience with TechStars – starting in Boulder, but expanding to Boston, Seattle, and New York – helped us understand not just TechStars’ role and impact on a startup community, but what drives startup communities over the long term. Based in Portland, the program is just a short drive away from Nike World Headquarters.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

Most publishers are still caught up in an outdated “vision vs. metrics&# argument, which is already obsolete here in Silicon Valley. The world is generally not as tech-savvy as Silicon Valley and will continue to rely on traditional mechanisms for content distribution for the foreseeable future.

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Epitaph for an Entrepreneur « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Biological Clocks After Convergent and now single again, I was a co-founder of my next two startups; MIPS and Ardent. In hindsight this list looks pretty organized but in reality we made it up as we went along, accompanied with all the husband and wife struggles of being married and trying to raise a family in Silicon Valley.