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Intel Disrupted: Why large companies find it difficult to innovate, and what they can do about it

Steve Blank

First, the shift away from desktop computers to mobile devices meant that Intel’s power-hungry x86 processors weren’t suitable. All of Intel’s resources – fabs, manufacturing strategies, and most importantly executive mindset — were geared towards large, expensive x86 processors, not low-cost mobile cores of someone else’s design.

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

The reward for doing so was a liquidity event via an Initial Public Offering. Customer Development , Agile Engineering and the Lean methodology enforced a process of incremental and iterative development. This next wave of web startups; Social Networks and Mobile Applications, now reached 100’s of millions of customers.

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Startup Resources

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VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. Twilio : Need to call/txt get a phone number from your web/mobile application? Mobile Tools: If you are a web developer, you donâ??t