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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

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. Wasn’t he a CTO or something? (He The response from across the country?

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

They can make good money consulting or working as an employee of another company. They can easily get great benefits and a six figure salary. If yes, hire a contract developer. The risk of failure doesn’t seem worth it, especially when the potential reward seems so far away. I refused and he left. Good riddance.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

But as any programmer will tell you (I’m one), any lucrative contract or full time job you can get, especially these days, will usually leave you so burnt out by the end of the day that the last thing you will want to do is sit down and bang out more code. This happens a lot. Better still, write your own post :) Ron Amen. Who knows.