Cost Design Employee Fractional VPE 
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 11, 2023
Designed by the Navy’s OPS-20-G team and built at National Cash Register (NCR) in Dayton, this same Computing Machine Lab would build ~25 other types of electromechanical and optical machines , some the size of a room with 3,500 tubes , to assist in breaking Japanese and German codes. And by 1949, 652 employees and by 1955, 1400.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
When Ive asked mentors of mine who have worked in big companies about the role of the CTO, they usually talk about the importance of being the external face of the companys technology platform; an evangelist to developers, customers, and employees. So I initially gravitated to the CTO title, and not VP of Engineering.
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Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 7, 2008
As a last disclaimer, please consult the definition of the word hacker if youre not familiar with the controversies surrounding that term.) Even if, in a previous life, you were a world expert in some functional specialty, like in-depth market research or scalable systems design, the compressed timeline of a startup makes it irrelevant.
www.paulgraham.com
AUGUST 1, 2008
We could hire employees, but we want to be forced to figure out how to scale investing. In essense, let the market design the product. This is a problem for founders, because it makes raising money take longer and cost more in legal fees. Back when it cost a lot to start a startup, you had to convince investors to let you do it.
blog.expensify.com
APRIL 24, 2012
Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). 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. More comments at the end. Alcides Fonseca.
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