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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. We were on the University of North Carolina campus to meet with Fred Brooks and Henry Fuchs. We were sitting in our cheap hotel room when the phone rang.

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Getting out of the building…by staying in the building!

Steve Blank

Our Lean Launchpad® for Life Sciences is one of them. The Lean Launchpad® for Life Sciences (the I-Corps @ NIH ) uses the Lean Startup Model to discover and validate the business model. The Lean Launchpad® for Life Sciences (the I-Corps @ NIH ) uses the Lean Startup Model to discover and validate the business model.

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“Coming for the Content, Staying for the Community” Started With Video Games (Or Maybe Religion?) But Will Define Media This Decade

Hunter Walker

But he also runs a paid-subscriber-only Slack group [Friends of Lenny’s Newsletter, partial screenshot below] that has channels for job openings, startup advice, technical talk and so on. Lean Luxe (business of commerce and brands) has a newsletter and Slack group. Hiring for many roles in SF, North Carolina or Remote.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere – Show No. 16: Wayne Sutton and Dave Kashen

Steve Blank

Yet this same network of connected people affects who gets funded, how startup teams form, and who gets hired. . The show follows the journeys of founders sharing their experiences of what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. It was maybe 100 degrees.

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Unintended Lessons

Steve Blank

We started in North Carolina eating BBQ and enjoying the Southern culture, went through Washington D.C Reply YA , on September 28, 2009 at 12:41 pm Said: Parent seldom teach by telling – they teach by living. Kids take from parents patterns – what’s good and what’s bad, mostly.

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Statisticians make the world go round

The Startup Magazine

Governments use statistics in order to help them make decisions, they also use social science for research into communities, and this also leans heavily on statistics. North Carolina, Raleigh. The post Statisticians make the world go round appeared first on The Startup Magazine. California, San Francisco. New Jersey.

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What I Noticed On Social Media During the 2017 Hurricane Season

Austin Startup

As a North Carolina native, I remember sitting through numerous storms with my great-grandma at her home in Duplin County. Some of us aren’t using our brand as a resource Many marketing managers keep trying to aggressively sell items to our customers instead of coming off as a friend or resource they can lean on.