archive tag board-of-directors 
Steve Blank
APRIL 9, 2009
At the same time we were educating the press , we began to educate our own marketing department about what exactly we were supposed to be doing inside the company. During the first few weeks I asked each of my department heads what they did for marketing and the company. What I was actually hearing was a failure of management.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 5, 2009
A Phone Call After I left MIPS Computers I was in New York tagging along with a friend (a computer architect whose products at Apple a decade later would change the shape of personal computing) who was consulting for a voice recognition startup. We were on the University of North Carolina campus to meet with Fred Brooks and Henry Fuchs.
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Steve Blank
JULY 16, 2009
Meanwhile our company was pouring an enormous amount of dollars into building tools and video compression technology, while also hiring a lot of high-priced Hollywood talent like art directors, and script and story editors. Nor was there anyone with game experience on our board. That’s OK, because we knew better.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 17, 2009
They’ll make much more sense if you read some of the earlier ones for context. From 1946 until 1950, Stanford’s Electronic Research Lab conducted basic research in microwave tubes. military to rearm and mobilize.
Steve Blank
MAY 15, 2009
I didn’t need to look much further than the “new building&# debacle I had a hand in. Signs of Success One of the things you do right in a startup, is you move from one cheap and cramped building to another as you grow, with desks, cubicles and engineers piled cheek to jowl. This happened to us at SuperMac when our sales skyrocketed.
www.igda.org
JULY 24, 2012
Why Crunch Mode Doesnt Work: 6 Lessons Theres a bottom-line reason most industries gave up crunch mode over 75 years ago: Its the single most expensive way there is to get the work done. by Evan Robinson. Executive Summary. When used long-term, Crunch Mode slows development and creates more bugs when compared with 40-hour weeks. Introduction.
blog.chrisomeara.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
The answer to that question is contextual, based on what you, as CEO, and your board believe your "Founder Developer Gap" (reference to the Tony Karrer blog entry ) to be. Chris OMeara Main | Probing Code Quality » 01/31/2010 Startup CTO: Could It Work? I think the part time CTO could work. I think thats the person you need.
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