Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Instead I’ve written some stuff down — take a look and if you have any follow-up maybe we can handle over email. Qualification #3: You understand a specific complex technology that is a current or emerging investment theme for the firm. There you are, the 15 minute phone call we were going to have instead summarized in an email.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

We were on the University of North Carolina campus to meet with Fred Brooks and Henry Fuchs. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times Ardent would be my third technology company as a VP of Marketing (Convergent Technologies and MIPS Computers were the other two.)

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Finally, for those of you who need some additional infusion of courage, please study the story of Ryan Allis in North Carolina who bootstrapped his company iContact to $1 million in revenue and THEN raised venture capital to get to $40 million. In that case, the verticals of choice could be manufacturing, wholesale and retail.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

We started in North Carolina eating BBQ and enjoying the Southern culture, went through Washington D.C checking out the shopping in Georgetown, saw beautiful horse country in Pennsylvania and upstate NY and headed down into the bays and coves of Connecticut filled with sailboats.

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