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Fulcrum Ties With Aquantia On Reference Design

socalTECH

Calabasas-based Fulcrum Microsystems , a provider of high speed Ethernet switching chips, and Aquantia , which develops 10GBASE-T PHY semiconductors, said this morning that the two have tied together in releasing a new, 48-port 10GBASE-T Ethernet Switch reference design.

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Jazz Semi Licenses Technology To Fujitsu

socalTECH

Newport Beach-based Jazz Semiconductor said today that it has licensed its high-precision RF models and design kits for RF to Fujitsu Microelectronics Limited. The technology involved allows users to create RF, systems-on-a-chip (SoC) designs that will be fabricated at Fujitsu's 300mm fab in Japan, in 90nm and 65nm process technologies.

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Steve Blank Discusses The Origin And Future Of The Lean Startup Movement

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The Lean Startup approach dictates that successful customer development is an iterative process. By conceptualizing, selling, gathering feedback and then developing a product, startups achieve success more quickly and economically. Eric (Ries) was a student in one of the very earliest customer development classes at Berkley.

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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

Both Sides of the Table

We spent time out in the marketplace talking with customers, looking at their solutions, comparing ourselves with our competition and then squirreling ourselves away in our offices designing our next set of features. I used to always tell my development team, “you need to design a product that my dad could use.

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The Customer May Not Always Be Right, But You Had Better Listen Just The Same

Tech Zulu Event

Features that were very difficult and expensive to program yet he found later that his customers could care less about his cool features. What IMVU thought was game changing technology was not why customers used the software. In fact, Customer Experience (CX) turns the product development chart upside down.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

Both Sides of the Table

Rumored: Digital Sky Technologies. Stitcher - San Francisco-based service that lets users customize talk radio programming on their mobile devices. Quirky - Platform facilitating collaborative design of consumer products through an online community. Many other people over paid for Chemdex, VerticalNet, Pets.com, etc.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. Storm Clouds - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 12, 2010 We have enjoyed an amazing run in the web startup and investing space over the past five or six years. This should not deter you. What went wrong?