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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

I had last been in Chapel Hill on a winter’s day in 1986, traveling with the VP of Sales of our new supercomputer startup, Ardent. I’ve convinced the team you’d be perfect, come join us as the VP of Marketing.” On a rainy day in Providence we tracked Andy down just as he was leaving for a trip to Europe.

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Women 2.0 » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

www.women2.org

It’s the same process as sales and dating, and I know how to do both, well, at least sales… So, how hard can this be? She has consulted for a number of startups in the mobile, Saas, and consumer health spaces. Thus, I embarked on the journey to find a technical co-founder. Scoring Founder “Dates” On My Own.

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

blog.expensify.com

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. I am the VP of Engineering at a cutting-edge startup that sells software built on the.NET platform. Nothing says contraction negotiation like the smell of cordite.

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