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Ardent War Story 5: The Best Marketers Are Engineers

Steve Blank

Building an Advisory Board In my travels outside the building I kept my eyes out for articulate and visionary scientists and engineers who had expertise we lacked, and were willing to help in an advisory capacity. I set up an advisory board as a vehicle to get these industry experts engaged with the company and product.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 32: Evangelos Simoudis and Ashok Srivastava

Steve Blank

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Evangelos Simoudis’ is the founder and managing director of Synapse Partners. ” We certainly did. If you can’t hear the clip, click here. Evangelos : Yes.

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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

The VP of Sales and I flew to Providence to convince Andy van Dam at Brown to join our company, or at a minimum lead our advisory board. Forget the Hypertext idea and come on back to California. Unlike Intel chips, MIPS chip architecture also made it possible to plug in a math co-processor. We’re building a supercomputer.”

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Startup Tools

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It’s more reference material. Thus, these pages. I’ll add more as time goes on.

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Elephants Can Dance – Reinventing HP « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Army Signal Corps advisory board, and the Army was going to acquire their first computer for research. Cultural Revolution at Large Corporations – the Founders Return Of the companies that do reinvent themselves it’s interesting that often its the founder or an outsider that has the insight and makes the radical changes.

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Startup Resources

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.” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Founders Institute Plain Preferred Term Sheet â?? Founder Equity Issues. Codeacademy.