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The Coming Chip Wars

Steve Blank

If negotiations fail, China may respond and escalate, via one of many agile strategic responses short of war, perhaps succeeding in coercing the foundry to stop making chips for American companies – turning the tables on the United States. and that China ill enforce an embargo of any TSMC sales to American-affiliated companies.

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

It also helps ratchet down the pressure, since so many of the interruptions that plague the typical hacker are actually the same bugs recurring over and over. In school I was being pounded day and night with anything that has to do with agile software development. I am basically a one-man shop. Expo SF (May.

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Introducing New Lean Startup Practitioners

Startup Lessons Learned

We’ve just put a new batch of tickets on sale, and when this one sells out, the price goes up, so sign up now. Each MVP is like a ratchet tooth or belay anchor that keeps the work from going backward, while enabling me to generate greater momentum for the next, more ambitious reach.” Below are three of their takes on MVPs.

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