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Steve Blank

As one could imagine this was the last thing the supercomputer center management wanted to hear. Reply BillSeitz , on November 23, 2009 at 4:51 am Said: Did you put your pinky next to the corner of your mouth and demand “1 beellion dollars&# ? Any guerilla sales tactics somebody may know for situation like this?