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

Steve Blank

The OEM Business Convergent’s business was selling desktop computers (with our own operating system and office applications) to other computer manufacturers – most of them long gone: Burroughs, Prime, Monroe Data Systems, ADP, Mohawk, Gould, NCR, 4-Phase, AT&T. Convergent Technologies was one of those OEM suppliers.

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Ardent War Story 5: The Best Marketers Are Engineers

Steve Blank

Yet in our case the product, the machine as delivered from engineering, was a blank, featureless computer with just an operating system and compilers. We hired a PhD in computational fluid dynamics from Duke who had worked on helicopter design. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Blog at WordPress.com.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

The Carson, California company employs about 800 people in its 4 Southern California plants. Today, CedarLane is the largest family-owned and operated national frozen food brand in the U.S. Thanks to Stacy Roberts, SMR Leadership Solutions, LLC ! #8 Thanks to Robert Atallah, CedarLane Natural Foods ! #2

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

In 2005, Majid coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline information management within organizations. A creator and producer of social media, Michael’s responsibilities include leadership for the design team, concept creation and strategic consulting for highly engaging interactive experiences.

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Out of the Ashes - Something Isn't Quite Right

Steve Blank

No one was actually quite that good, but some VCs had “golden guts” for these kinds of operating issues. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Here are the six likely ways that it will resolve, with these probabilities.” Yet something in the back of my mind bothered me. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

» Dig for Leadership - Stories that try to make the world a better place. , AKPC_IDS += "1128,"; (No Ratings Yet) Loading … Posted in Leadership | Tagged [.] Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. They built airplanes out of palm trees thinking if they did manna would come in airplanes again.

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Story Behind “The Secret History” Part III: The Most Important.

Steve Blank

When Terman said no, Sylvania, a tube company which built proximity fuse tubes in WWII, won the contract and set up its Electronic Defense Lab (EDL) in Mountain View California in the middle of an orchard. could design and produce, and a good part of it was coming from Silicon Valley. Terman became a consultant to the company.