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Out of the Ashes - Something Isn't Quite Right

Steve Blank

The same issues arose time and again: big company management styles versus entrepreneurs wanting to shoot from the hip, founders versus professional managers, engineering versus marketing, marketing versus sales, missed schedule issues, sales missing the plan, running out of money, raising new money.

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SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

This is the first way to get video into a computer, we’re going to sell and market this board like there’s no tomorrow. That’s every marketeers excuse for putting their kids in an ad.) Marketing knew who the Spigot customers were; we had all the registration cards and all the data.

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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

Scalable Startup

Then last year I decided to re-educate myself in software development, but this time as a regular ol’ coder. Although I have an EE and CS education, my best contribution to technology businesses has been in strategy/sales/marketing/leadership. Big boy applications. Drupal is prevalent in the Silicon Valley ecosystem?

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So you say you want to be a Product Manager …?

Austin Startup

Hard skills such as data analytics are essential to being successful as a product manager, but equally-valued are soft skills such as communication, collaboration and leadership. This requires setting the strategic vision and product roadmap based on market research, as well as testing and stakeholder feedback.

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Is #NewYork the Next Startup Land of Oz?

Scalable Startup

Here are some of the factors: (1) Amazing Engineering Skills – Let’s just start with the big one. There is a highly under-known fact in the software engineering world – many of the best developers and architects are not in Silicon Valley, but in the New York metro area. These people abound in New York.

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Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

We are in Santa Clara, California, still holding up well. A lot of the discussion and news around this pandemic has focused on the timelines to get therapeutics and vaccines to market, and I think a lot of the discussion has been about the very lengthy human trials, the clinical stage of drug discovery. Eric Ries : Amen to that.

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

In addition, those humans, collectively, are the majority of America and they reside disproportionately in non-primary markets. They created a program called Onward California in partnership with the State of California and with the support of governor Newsom. A company headquartered in Fresno, California.

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