Limit Point Systems and MBA Sciences entered into an alliance to deliver heterogeneous parallel processing solutions for oil and gas industry Strategic alliance to deliver heterogeneous parallel processing solutions for oil and gas industry Mountain View CA, May 14, 2012 – Limit Point Systems and MBA Sciences announce a strategic alliance relationship establishing both parties’ […]
The following interview is constructed from e-mails and skype calls from February to April 2012 with Arun Kumar of Kerika. See also this video: https://vimeo.com/24502212 and the Kerika blog for more info on Kerika. Founders Story: Arun Kumar of Kerika Q: Can you talk a little bit about your background I started off as a
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“Trust is even more scarce than attention.” Trust doesn’t scale, it’s built up by repeated interactions over time. That’s what makes it so important.
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Sid Faulkner, CFO of Ciranova gave a talk today on “Navigating the Treacherous Path of Mergers and Acquisitions” at an event at Abbot Stringham and Lynch. Mr. Faulkner was Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Oak Technology, Inc. where he led the 1995 initial and secondary public stock offerings, established an active program of
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An interesting TED talk by Susan Cain on the power of introverts: how introverts impact innovation and creativity. Here are some key points she makes (see full transcript) When it comes to creativity and to leadership, we need introverts doing what they do best. A third to a half of the population are introverts. You
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A link to the Valve Employee Handbook made it to front page of Hacker News recently and I can see why, it makes for very interesting reading.
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Postcards offer a practical and cost-effective way to reach business prospects. Here are some examples of how they can assist you in standing out from the crowd.
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Focus on delighting early customers over accumulating followers. You need proof of deep value in a niche over small value dispersed over a large market.
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Two excerpts, one from H. Rider Haggard and one from Venerable Bede, that use a sparrow in flight as a metaphor for the evanescence of a man’s life.
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Some Good Friday thoughts by Michael Malone on success in Silicon Valley and the need to contemplate your life from time to time.
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The technology is nothing without the team. Teams listen to customers and translate technology into supported products.
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It’s very hard to forecast the rate of adoption of a genuinely new offering in an emerging market, one that is discontinuous with current practice. A focus on scaling is premature until you have proof of value and have found your niche.
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“Beta customer” blurs beta tester, beta user, and early customer. If you sell to business, beta customers are early customers, not beta testers.
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Here is our Startup Stages Overview video, it explains our startup stages model and the risk reducing milestones that separate each stage.
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This originally appeared in my “Entrepreneurial Engineer” column in EETimes as “No longer a startup, EVE aims for top tier of EDA players” on Mar-29-2011. I have added some additional hyperlinks in this version. Dr. Luc Burgun is co-founder and CEO of EVE. He has more than sixteen years of experience in EDA in both
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Structuring Business Relationships with Employees, Contractors, Alliances, Partners and Co-Owners is a core challenge founders must manage.
We are launching a new CTO Mastermind group in response to several requests from entrepreneurs who wanted an advisory board of peers. CTO Mastermind Open House Saturday March 24, 2012 9-11am Ground Floor Silicon Valley, located at 2030 Duane Avenue, Santa Clara, We are launching new Mastermind groups in response to several requests from entrepreneurs
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I have been exploring several applications that could access my LinkedIn, Twitter, and GMAIL accounts but none allow me to grant read only access. All of these applications need a read only password.
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