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Steve Blank
JULY 11, 2017
They make hardware with a large part of their innovation in embedded software and services. The CFO asked me to stay as one of the engineering directors came in for a meeting. So, this was a meeting of last resort, as the engineering director was making one last appeal to the CFO to keep his team in town. I wish I hadn’t.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 8, 2014
Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies.
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YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 20, 2015
This is because these days it’s a trendy word, conjuring up images of youthful exuberance, all-night coding parties, and developing revolutionary apps that transform into mind-boggling IPOs. Myth #2: All startups are technology companies. Facts: Only a few new companies are startups. Startups play in a bigger field.
Steve Blank
MAY 11, 2009
Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. So SuperMac engineering also developed video compression software, called Cinepak. The software was idiot proof. My first IPO at Convergent.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 27, 2012
Ability To Attract a Pool of Engineers – We know that SF is Mecca for software engineers. A local tech winner really creates a generational technology opportunity in the way nothing else can. That IPOs and then continues rising. These problems obvious exist in any major city. San Diego has Qualcomm.
www.geekwire.com
JULY 10, 2012
“Despite the industry’s lackluster returns in recent years, there’s still lots of interest in funds that have good track records or are well-situated to take advantage of broad consumer technology trends,” said Zoran Basich, editor of Dow Jones VentureWire. Software Developer. Senior Software Engineer - Web-based Applications.
prosperati.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
There is this delusion that certification in a computer language or vendor technology (Microsoft etc) equates to mastery of the art of programming itself. As a result, local universities here churn out thousands of new graduates each year who can spell Microsoft but understand nothing about proper software engineering.
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