Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 1, 2014
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. Now he’s VP of engineering at Dropbox , where he’s seeing similar growth.
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.
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Steve Blank
JUNE 25, 2009
Business customers were starting to ask for “office automation solutions” – word processing, spreadsheets, graphing software on a desktop. The Consultative Sale Our sales guy then quietly asked if there was any way we could help them. I had just watched a master of the consultative sale. 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. Our CTO is the CEO himself, but he lacks the understanding of the new software development processes and the new technologies.
www.paulgraham.com
AUGUST 1, 2008
We think of the techniques were developing for dealing with large numbers of startups as like software. Sometimes it literally is software, like. They buy a lot of startups— more than most people realize, because they only announce a fraction of them. silicon valleys. Weve done the same thing ourselves.
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