Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

The first post described how China built a science and technology infrastructure to support advanced weapons systems development. The previous post described how the Torch program built China’s innovation clusters. SBIR and STTR programs, the Torch Program’s funding for new ventures was limited to seed funding the front end.

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Diego and I first met in 1997. I had recently finished the Master of Software Engineering ( MSE ) program at Carnegie Mellon and gone full time on my first startup. Diego had just started in the MSE program. he had to build his indexing technology to be able to update very quickly and filter out stale data very quickly.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The annual Interactive Festival awards program began in 1997 as the Texas Interactive Media Achievement Awards, and was re-named the SXSW Web Awards the following year. immersive technologies have come so far in the past year. Why are they called the SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards? How long has this event been going on?

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 29, 2018

As I’ve mentioned in several Lucky7 posts before, we are living in the Golden Age of Technology ( here’s one of those posts ). So I’ve got some familiarity with this territory, and here is my take on your five-step program to entrepreneurial freedom. DFS was formed in 1997 to provide Dell customers the best financing options.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

I first met and worked with Bobby in the mid-2000s at the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT), where he was a co-founder and on the board with me. Bobby is awesome and I’m really psyched he’s back in Boulder at CU. Welcome back, Bobby!

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Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

The first post described how China built a science and technology infrastructure to support advanced weapons systems development. The previous post described how the Torch program built China’s innovation clusters. SBIR and STTR programs, the Torch Program’s funding for new ventures was limited to seed funding the front end.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

When I was in high school, a classmate and I started a peer mentoring program for our middle school which has grown and flourished. He founded eBay to empower individuals through the use of new technology, and has created livelihoods for millions of individuals throughout the world.

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Diego Basch

MARCH 4, 2011

No web, no connectivity for the most part, just simple games, random programs, hardware drivers, random utilities. Fast forward to 1997. A CGI program written in C running under Apache that would process queries and call system(“/bin/grep”) over a file containing ftp links to mp3 files. I started coding in the 80s.

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 8, 2015

Girlstart, founded in 1997, runs programs to empower girls in the fields of Science Technology Engineering and Math, known as […] The post SXSW Interactive Names Girlstart’s Tamara Hudgins to its Hall of Fame appeared first on SiliconHills.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Technology | Thursdays. TECHNOLOGY. Technology. Science and Technology Technology. Back in 1997, Randy Parker was staring at a blank whiteboard, wondering where hed find the money to hire the employees and consultants he needed to build his new product. Join our community. Forgot login ? Start-up | Mondays.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

These new cellular phone networks were built around two-way circuit switched technology designed to move voice calls without interruption. Unlike the circuit-switched cell phone networks, pager networks were built around digital packet-switched technology. In 1997, RIM introduced the first packet-switched messaging device.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

I completed my Bachelors in 3 years (another story for another time) and so was able to go directly into a professional Masters program (also at Carnegie Mellon) and complete a masters degree without having to apply for a new visa. I graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 1997 and decided to use my OPT to give the company a proper shot.

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

” While they do not mention it explicitly, the authors clearly are calling attention to the flawed logic behind the United States’ Trusted Foundry program, which is based on the assumption that only IC’s fabricated on U.S. soil can provide 100% assurance.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2012

Today's roundtable was jointly organized by the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT KGP) and the 1M/1M program as part of the former's Global Entrepreneurship Summit organized by the student-run e-cell. But a subsequent visit in January 2009 saw a massive change: the students were excited about entrepreneurship.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward. (And Small Business Administration ’s Associate Administrator and chief of its investment and innovation programs.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Christopher Fralic is a Managing Partner at First Round Capital’s New York office, and has focused on a number of the firm’s investments in Advertising Technology, Social Media, Ecommerce, Gaming, Mobile and more. Mr. Fralic has 25 years of technology industry experience, with significant Internet business development roles since 1996.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2019

It doesn’t matter how technologically difficult the innovation is, however: The established competitors almost always win the battles of sustaining technology. It is the business model and not the technology that enables and creates the disruptive effect. The innovation eventually disrupts an existing market and value network.

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Transformify

JULY 21, 2019

At 13, I was already on air participating in local and national radio programs, at 14 TV programs got interested, and at 15 I already received a national short film award. Marie, you were the last person to interview the late Nobel Peace Prize winner Mother Teresa, Saint Teresa of Calcutta, in her home in Calcutta, India in 1997.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

I was 23 and had been programming computers, designing computer networks and selling software for 10 years. For 1991 I was very technical and also had a lot of practical business implementation experience in technology. In 1997 I was sent to England to work on a project for the oil company Halliburton. You’re a tech guy.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

in 1997 to 24.7 The percentage of new entrepreneurs who are women has also dropped significantly since 1997. My facts are from an excellent report from the Kauffman Foundation (Kauffman does more than report, they have a variety of programs to address the entrepreneurial issue). We need more, many more, programs of this kind.

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 1, 2008

We have some engaging and topical new content on our VC-InsideOut podcast program– Episode 7 in our Governance Series, "Best Practices for the High-Performance Board"  This is a first for VC InsideOut as we recorded a live, 92 minute program at the Pillsbury Winthrop law firm this past Thursday morning.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 26, 2017

It doesn’t matter how technologically difficult the innovation is, however: The established competitors almost always win the battles of sustaining technology. It is the business model and not the technology that enables and creates the disruptive effect. But the real innovation was making downloading digital music easy.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

In fact, at the time (1996-1997) we offered both a downloadable product, that our customers could install on their own servers, and a “hosted-offering”, which came to be known as “On-Demand”, then the “ASP” (Application Service Provider) model, and today we call it “SaaS” (Software as a Service). Too many startups today fail to do that.

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Kodorra

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Its popularity made Microsoft make a move and agreed to purchase Hotmail in 1997 for a whopping $400 million. This company is one of the best companies that revolutionized technology. The owner of Dropbox, Drew Houston, attended MIT and wanted to get in the coveted Y Combinator program but was rejected twice.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Convergent Technologies When I was in my 20’s I worked at Convergent Technologies , a company that was proud to be known as the “Marine Corps of Silicon Valley.” Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Tips for Startups « Am I a Founder? Life is good.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 26, 2010

The implementations were practically bullet-proof and hundreds of C++ programs relied on this library to handle their most basic functionality without having to reinvent the wheel. Rogue Wave’s fall began during Java’s rise to power in 1997-8. Their products were second-to-none. The problem was, Rogue Wave loved their product too much.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2015

by Rose Ernst, national director of the G10 Associates program at Genesis10. 1980-1997), you are now part of the largest generation in the workforce? Busted: Millennials are Digital Natives – this comfort with automated tools gives them a natural ability to adopt new technology -systems software and tech skills – quickly.

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www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

Common programming measurements, like lines of code and function points are either easy to collect and of questionable value or difficult to define and collect. link] , Work Less Institute of Technology, originally by Sidney Chapman. Psychophysics in Cyberia , Work Less Institute of Technology, November 18, 2004. Foundation.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

has transformed from a small information technology components firm into a comprehensive and full-service IT computer hardware and support solution provider, servicing over 20,000 clients across the country. Extremely-Sharp.com originally started with a few retail locations in 1997, and we quickly started the e-commerce site the next year.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 19, 2021

For example, in 1997, I had not realized that you need to invent and reinvent your go to market strategy together with your product idea. This is especially dangerous for technology companies (and these days, nearly every company is becoming a technology company!)

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 8, 2019

In particular, this past October the FDA announced a significant number of guidance documents to be expected in 2019 , including “Expansion of the Abbreviated 510(k) Program: Demonstrating Substantial Equivalence through Performance Criteria,” “Breakthrough Devices Program,” and “Humanitarian Device Exemption (HDE) Program.”

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). Programmed Learning and Educational Technology 18(2), 57-61. Comment about this source: A typical study on the aesthetic quality of fonts – these types of studies are only useful for a short time before fashion or technology changes the whims of readers. Sullivan J.L.F. Gillespie, J.

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Board Effect

JANUARY 9, 2024

Special events can also provide a platform that allows your nonprofit to highlight your nonprofit’s achievements and programs. This is a good event for nonprofits related to STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and math). Highlight achievements. Boost morale. 4th-10th November in the U.K.,

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Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 3, 2011

The Kauffman Foundation’s research on this matter is clear: from 1997 to 2005, job growth in the US was driven entirely by start-ups. Worker training efforts in combination with educational efforts, such as the emphasis on STEM (Science Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) is a start, but are woefully underfunded and under-supported.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2010

Hilton E – Andrew Keen, author of Cult of the Amateur, discusses the impact of social media and technological innovation on culture, society and economic justice. A social translation program is one way you can make your website more accessible to a global audience for less. It means now is the best… ([link].

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

they’ll continue to look for independent technology partners. Attempts at “moving up the stack&# – In 1997 I led a project to help senior management at British Telecom define its Internet strategy. The MSO’s are today’s distribution platforms and they still have a lot of muscle in the ensuing years.

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