Engineer Entrepreneur Fractional VPE Silicon Valley 
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 1, 2014
Experienced entrepreneurs We’ve got speakers who are justifiably respected by a lot of entrepreneurs. As the emeritus Chief Technology Officer of the United States, he still connects government and Silicon Valley. He was a very early employee of Facebook , and engineering director there through the moment it blew up.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 5, 2009
A Phone Call After I left MIPS Computers I was in New York tagging along with a friend (a computer architect whose products at Apple a decade later would change the shape of personal computing) who was consulting for a voice recognition startup. We were sitting in our cheap hotel room when the phone rang. We were going to be guessing.
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Steve Blank
JUNE 25, 2009
Their engineering teams didn’t have the expertise using off-the-shelf microprocessors (back then “real” computer companies designed their own instruction sets and operating systems.) Their engineers hated us. The Consultative Sale Our sales guy then quietly asked if there was any way we could help them. Help them?!!
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 7, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, December 7, 2008 The hackers lament One of the thrilling parts of working and writing in Silicon Valley is the incredible variety of people Ive had the chance to meet. And we cant hire new engineers any faster, because you cant be interviewing and debugging and fixing all at the same time!
www.women2.org
MARCH 8, 2012
Lessons learned from female founders and women entrepreneurs. Being a resource-constrained entrepreneur, I wanted a co-founder because even if I got a paid engineer or an outsourced team to build it, I would still need to build a team, and there would be continuous development needs. female founders. founder friday.
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