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7 Keys To Making People First And Winning In Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Open architecture is more conducive to certain desired office behaviors, like collaboration and easy communication. Even geography counts – there is a reason that tech firms cluster in Silicon Valley and financial firms cluster in London and New York. Provide an inviting and appropriate work environment. Place shapes culture.

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How Black People Leveraged Tech Bigotry to Boss the Blockchain Below the Radar

Austin Startup

By the time Silicon Valley white privilege culture, tech magazines that promote only white faces, Ethereum/Bitcoin fanboys, sellout black tech wannabees and globalists promoting their blockchain consortium get a hold of this article, it’s already too late and the game already ended a while ago.

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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

The culture and work ethic of Convergent had earned it the title “the Marine Corps of Silicon Valley”. Unlike Intel chips, MIPS chip architecture also made it possible to plug in a math co-processor. to move their applications to our unique machine architecture. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Ardent War Story 5: The Best Marketers Are Engineers

Steve Blank

Technical Marketing Years later in my career I would realize I had simply reinvented what the early pioneers in Silicon Valley knew and did – hiring engineers who were domain experts who could talk as peers to customers and communicate effectively with their own company’s engineers. Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores.

Steve Blank

He complemented their elegantly designed minicomputers and made some astute comment about their architecture (now I’m rolling my eyes, their computers were dinosaurs) and asked who were the brilliant designers. I’ve tried to read a lot of your History of Silicon Valley posts. Some say we were the first PCM in the valley.

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Vertical Markets 2: Customer/Market Risk versus Invention Risk.

Steve Blank

For example, complex new semiconductor architectures, (i.e. a new type of graphics architecture, or a new communications chip architecture) mean you may not know if the chip performs as well as you thought until you get first silicon. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Order Here.

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How Sin-Mei Tsai, Shippo’s VP of Engineering, Defines Code Quality

Version One Ventures

She is a Silicon Valley veteran – having been the Senior Director of Engineering at Yodlee, then holding several CTO, Chief Architect, and other engineering leadership roles at a few startups before landing at Shippo in 2016. Architectural and software design integrity is very important to us. Technical design quality.