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Steve Blank
MARCH 19, 2009
When I went through their financials as part of my due diligence I realized that if they ditched their low margin disk drive products, it wouldn’t take much to make them a profitable company. While I was consulting for them, I got a call from a recruiter for a company called SuperMac, which made add-on products for the Macintosh.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 12, 2009
Nuclear Weapons Laboratories which used supercompurters to run their hydrodynamics codes to simulate what went on in the first microseconds in a nuclear weapon and the National Security Agency (with Cray putting in a special population count hardware instruction) used to facilitate decryption of codes.
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Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 9, 2009
This required convincing software vendors to move their applications to our unique machine architecture. I had hired the VP of marketing from a potential software partner who was responsible to get all this 3 rd party software on our computer. His real job – the action – was to get the software moved onto our machine.
Steve Blank
APRIL 20, 2009
Most of the ability to create a radio industry in the 1920s was due to the accident of ionospheric radio propagation. Intercontinental radio was CW only (morse code) and all used spark gaps, alternators and arc converters through out the 1920s. Farnsworth was also bullied to an early death by Sarnoff and RCA.
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 7, 2009
As we were out looking for our Series B round, our company had gotten the attention of “name of big VC firm here” who wanted a play in enterprise software. During the due-diligence process, I sat down with one of the partners who pulled out a set of slides and asked me: ”Have you seen these?” Are These Your Slides?
Steve Blank
JULY 2, 2009
Video Games At SuperMac , Peter Barrett was the witty and creative 24-year old Australian engineer who had designed several of our most successful products, culminating with the software for the Video Spigot. Now he wanted to go off start his own company. I was going to find out why this wasn’t a good idea.
Steve Blank
APRIL 2, 2009
Since no benchmarks existed, we enlisted our engineering department in a serious software development effort and wrote our own. Inside the covers of these publications our customers had said that it was the product reviews that most influenced their buying decisions. Now this is worth stopping and thinking about for a second.
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