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Innovation inside the box

Startup Lessons Learned

(This is similar to the problem that viral loop companies have with the engagement loop : by making it too easy to join, they actually give away the positioning that allows for longer-term engagement.) More importantly, the experience led to some soul-searching. More importantly, the experience led to some soul-searching.

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Ardent 3: Supercomputer Porn

Steve Blank

Which was true, but wasn’t true enough to survive, long-term.) At Multiflow (a VLIW spin-off from Yale that was a semi-competitor of Ardent/Stardent (Convex and Alliant were our direct competitors), our whole shtick was “we run even your junk code fast, while killing the vector code dead&#. We were eventually killed by Sun.