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

Steve Blank

Steve,&# he said, “you’re missing the most interesting part of vertical markets. 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.

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Website Information Architecture: How to Optimize for UX

ConversionXL

Website information architecture is no joke, yet the overwhelming majority of businesses structure their site using the IMO method (“In my opinion…”). If you already have tens of pages on your site, you should do a proper information architecture analysis. What is information architecture? One or two menus?

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Ardent War Story 5: The Best Marketers Are Engineers

Steve Blank

Other advisors provided marketing with industry-specific advice in our initial vertical markets (computational fluid dynamics, computational chemistry, finite element analysis, and petroleum engineering). Some of these advisors from the academic community would work with our of VP of Engineering and help us solve specific technical problems.

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5 IoT Gateway Best Practices

YoungUpstarts

Use Horizontal & Vertical Scaling. To add additional gateway devices to support scalability and redundancy, you can choose to implement either horizontal or vertical scaling. The other option to consider is vertical scaling. Vertical scaling should be used when functional changes need to be implemented.

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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

Unlike Intel chips, MIPS chip architecture also made it possible to plug in a math co-processor. Personal supercomputer s meant yet again learning something completely new; new computer architectures, new applications and customers, new markets. to move their applications to our unique machine architecture.

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Getting The Website Information Architecture Right: How to Structure Your Site for Optimal User Experiences

ConversionXL

Information architecture is no joke, yet overwhelming majority of businesses have structured their site using the IMO method – “in my opinion” While common sense is a useful tool and a lot of sites are very simple (e.g. If you already have tens of pages on your site, you should do proper information architecture analysis.

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CEO Shaking Up the AI Industry With a Robotic Reading Companion for Kids

Hearpreneur

I studied architecture before attending Tsinghua University where I studied design. In segmented scenarios and vertical markets, Ling may have greater advantages than Baidu, Alibaba,and Tencent (BAT). We had a chance to interview Jiawei and asked about his story, how he started his business and the future of Ling Technology.