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See More than 120 Speakers and Mentors at The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

As the emeritus Chief Technology Officer of the United States, he still connects government and Silicon Valley. He’ll talk about making a profit and making a difference in a conversation with New Media Ventures’ Christie George. Todd Park convened the team that saved Obamacare.

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COVID-19 – Accelerating The Destruction Of Corporate Arrogance

YoungUpstarts

Just out of college, I moved to China to seek my fortune as an entrepreneur, starting a consulting business where we helped large retailers and fashion brands manage their manufacturing infrastructure in China. The president was totally dismissive of our technology and manufacturing solution. Small is the new big.

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Taking stock of the Dutch tech cluster: What The Netherlands needs to win the European startup scene

The Next Web

Think of Werner Vogels (CTO of Amazon), Guido van Rossem (founder of Python programming language and senior engineer at Dropbox) or the more senior Gerard Kleisterlee (chairman of Vodafone). We have great intellectual property protection, and have efficient ways to enforce contracts. Think Philips Electronics, NXP, ASML and Tom Tom.

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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

A Phone Call After I left MIPS Computers I was in New York tagging along with a friend (a computer architect whose products at Apple a decade later would change the shape of personal computing) who was consulting for a voice recognition startup. Wasn’t he a CTO or something? (He Working with my old boss sounded like a great idea.

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Joe Stump on Lens.ly, a project by Mokriya

Life Beyond Code

is a brain-child of Joe Stump, who is well known in Silicon Valley. Most recently, Joe served as the CTO of SimpleGeo and now he is dedicating his time to Sprint.ly. From there I contracted with an iOS developer who does a lot of code for me. It is one of those apps that you wish Flickr provided by default.

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, December 7, 2008 The hackers lament One of the thrilling parts of working and writing in Silicon Valley is the incredible variety of people Ive had the chance to meet. Its common to find a hacker at the heart of almost any successful technology company. Just change it.

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GTK’s and Pillsbury’s Internet of Things Executive Event - 2015 Edition

Growthink Blog

It was business star-studded affair - 150 Silicon Valley technology executives and investors gathered together to network and brainstorm on IoT - described by many as fundamental a technology shift as the emergence of the Internet itself was in the 1990's. New Business Models.