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SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

They had this great architecture, and Apple had figured out to get movies into their own computers for a demo, but for the rest of us there was no physical device that allowed an average consumer to plug a video camera or VCR into and get video into a Mac. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Order Here.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

ReadWriteStart

Bizosys Technologies, a Bangalore, India based software engineering company was founded in 2009. Techcello Next, Ram Kumar, also from Chennai, India, discussed Techcello , a multi-tenant SaaS framework for moving applications from.NET to a cloud architecture. The company already has paying customers and a validated product.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 7 – Jack Shanahan

Steve Blank

In commercial tech you call that an integrated product team, It’s acquisition with software engineering with UI/UX. It is an architecture and infrastructure — for lack of a cleaner term, call it a platform as a service, a DevSecOps or AI/Ops environment. Project Maven became the basis for what we did in the JAIC.

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Customer Development is Not a Focus Group

Steve Blank

One of the times I screwed this up it left a legacy of 25 years of questionable design in microprocessor architecture. As the engineers were busy rearchitecting the original Stanford MIPS chip into a commercial product, one of my jobs was to find out what features customers wanted. Are you out of your !? *x! No, not really.

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Lessons Learned: The ABCDEF's of conducting a technical interview

Startup Lessons Learned

For software engineers, I think this absolutely has to be a programming problem solved on a whiteboard. and going into a long diatribe about how insecure the ActiveX architecture was compared to Javas pristine sandbox. what happens if we have a pipelined architecture? At the time, I was a die-heard Java zealot.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

www.quora.com

I do disagree about two other points: First, this isn't the "quora rockstar engineer" perspective. It's my perspective as well and I'm not a software engineer let alone a rockstar. I am talking about self-appointed 10x egostars, not real solid software engineers.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 8 – AI – Chris Lynch and Nand Mulchandani

Steve Blank

Nand changed the culture of the JAIC, bringing in Silicon Valley tools for product development, product management and for the first time a culture that focused on UI/UX, MVPs and continuous integration and deployment. This is where I brought in the thinking of how we build businesses here in Silicon Valley.