Cofounder Fractional VPE Silicon Valley Software 
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 1, 2014
For example: Mitch Kapor was a founder of Lotus. As the emeritus Chief Technology Officer of the United States, he still connects government and Silicon Valley. He’s a founder of Andreessen Horowitz, which has backed Facebook, Skype, Jawbone, and dozens of other companies whose products you use.
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. Unlike Intel chips, MIPS chip architecture also made it possible to plug in a math co-processor.
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Steve Blank
JUNE 25, 2009
Business customers were starting to ask for “office automation solutions” – word processing, spreadsheets, graphing software on a desktop. The Consultative Sale Our sales guy then quietly asked if there was any way we could help them. I had just watched a master of the consultative sale. Help them?!!
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 7, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, December 7, 2008 The hackers lament One of the thrilling parts of working and writing in Silicon Valley is the incredible variety of people Ive had the chance to meet. Our CTO is the CEO himself, but he lacks the understanding of the new software development processes and the new technologies.
www.paulgraham.com
AUGUST 1, 2008
In the last batch of startups we funded, we had several founders who said theyd thought of applying before, but werent sure and got jobs instead. We think of the techniques were developing for dealing with large numbers of startups as like software. Sometimes it literally is software, like. Now the only threshold is courage.
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