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

Steve Blank

The OEM Business Convergent’s business was selling desktop computers (with our own operating system and office applications) to other computer manufacturers – most of them long gone: Burroughs, Prime, Monroe Data Systems, ADP, Mohawk, Gould, NCR, 4-Phase, AT&T. Help them?!!

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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. From the first day ERA started with contracts from the Navy OPS-20-G codebreaking group. A contract for a system named O’Malley followed. The professional staff owned the other 50%. How Did ERA Grow So Quickly?

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Building a High-Tech Startup Team

Business Plan Blog

Aligning the Startup Team Strategy with the Capitalization Strategy. The single most important factor to raising capital for any tech startup is the management team. This is true for early stage funding as well as venture capital funding. Hire based on functionality and avoid having too many C’s.

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

blog.expensify.com

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. net is the only framework in which you can build an app for all the major mobile operating systems (iphone, android, wp7). Nothing says contraction negotiation like the smell of cordite.

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