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The Secret History of Minnesota Part 1: Engineering Research Associates

Steve Blank

Designed by the Navy’s OPS-20-G team and built at National Cash Register (NCR) in Dayton, this same Computing Machine Lab would build ~25 other types of electromechanical and optical machines , some the size of a room with 3,500 tubes , to assist in breaking Japanese and German codes. And by 1949, 652 employees and by 1955, 1400.

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See More than 120 Speakers and Mentors at The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

He was a very early employee of Facebook , and engineering director there through the moment it blew up. Now he’s VP of engineering at Dropbox , where he’s seeing similar growth. Companies of note Learn from companies that have been through the fire--and have lessons to share. He’ll bring us real-world advice.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

When Ive asked mentors of mine who have worked in big companies about the role of the CTO, they usually talk about the importance of being the external face of the companys technology platform; an evangelist to developers, customers, and employees. So I initially gravitated to the CTO title, and not VP of Engineering.

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

As a last disclaimer, please consult the definition of the word hacker if youre not familiar with the controversies surrounding that term.) Even if, in a previous life, you were a world expert in some functional specialty, like in-depth market research or scalable systems design, the compressed timeline of a startup makes it irrelevant.

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The Future of Web Startups

www.paulgraham.com

We could hire employees, but we want to be forced to figure out how to scale investing. In essense, let the market design the product. They buy a lot of startups— more than most people realize, because they only announce a fraction of them. Weve done the same thing ourselves.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). Do a curl (or your.NET equivalent) on each domain, and see how many are running a Windows server: I think you’ll find the fraction very small. More comments at the end. Alcides Fonseca.

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