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The Secret History of Minnesota Part 1: Engineering Research Associates

Steve Blank

Norris became the VP of Engineering, Engstrom the VP of Research, and Meader VP of Manufacturing. The company took on any engineering work that came their way but were kept in business developing new code-breaking machines for the Navy. A contract for a system named O’Malley followed.

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Want to Know Difference Between a CTO and a VP of Engineering?

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Raising Venture Capital. Want to Know Difference Between a CTO and a VP of Engineering? I hope many will read this and have an answer for the question, “what’s the different between a CTO and a VP of Engineering?” The VP Engineering aspires to manage teams. Start-up Advice.

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

Steve Blank

Twenty eight years ago I was the bright, young, eager product marketing manager called out to the field to support sales by explaining the technical details of Convergent Technologies products to potential customers. These companies would take our computers and put their name on them and resell them to their customers.

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Women 2.0 » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

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After quitting my job and starting Sorced , I spent a few months validating my business concept by creating the product mockups and doing customer development. So, we chose a business concept, established the pain point, discussed the solution, identified monetization and customer acquisition strategies, and assessed market opportunity.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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But it will definitely raise questions during the phone screen, for reasons that are best explained by simile: Programming with.NET is like cooking in a McDonalds kitchen. Do a curl (or your.NET equivalent) on each domain, and see how many are running a Windows server: I think you’ll find the fraction very small.

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