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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

We were on the University of North Carolina campus to meet with Fred Brooks and Henry Fuchs. Unlike Intel chips, MIPS chip architecture also made it possible to plug in a math co-processor. A few days later Gordon became a founder. I worked at Multiflow, a name you’d recognize, ending up running the OS group.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. He got his MBA at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1982, and BSc at Auburn University in 1980. He joined Goldman Sachs & Co.

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The myth of the brainstorming session: The best ideas don’t always come from meetings

The Next Web

Over dinner a couple months ago, one of my friends said he needed some help coming up with a name for a new website. Many people I’ve come across, including the most creative ones, need individual time to let ideas marinate before the best concept reveals itself (even if it’s something that seems as simple as naming a website).

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Henrik and I co-founded Fisker Inc. Our mission stems from our passion in creating automotive technology disruption, our vision of a more sustainable future and our belief in astoundingly desirable designs that the Fisker name has been known for all around the world. Thanks to Brandy Runyan, Black Diamond PR Firm, LLC ! #2-

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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Research Triangle

ReadWriteStart

But the concentration of tech research and development extends beyond the bounds of just the research park itself, and the surrounding Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill and Cary, North Carolina metro areas are commonly labeled together as the Research Triangle, or "The Triangle.".

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Transcript of How National Companies Can Infiltrate Local Markets

Duct Tape Marketing

She is the co-founder and CEO of ZipSprout dot com that is doing a very innovative take on helping organizations wherever they are matched with local nonprofit and community organizations as a way to create marketing partnerships, a very, very innovative approach, check it out. She is the co-founder and CEO of ZipSprout dot com.

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19 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

I had co-founded my first company in the music software space back when digital meant taking something that was formerly analog and rethinking it. So when we co-founded Babbel in Berlin in 2007, we just wanted to develop something better than the status quo. That was almost one year ago and I would not have it any other way!