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Tanner Research Gets $1.2M Army Contract

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contract from the Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC), the firm said Friday afternoon, in additional funding as part of a research program. Tanner said the funding is part of the firm's development of technology to intercept rocket, artillery, and mortar threats for ARDEC.

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Tanner Research Gets $100K SBIR

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Monrovia-based Tanner Research , which provides technology research, electronic design automation (EDA) software, and other products and services, said Tuesday that it has been awarded a SBIR Phase I contract worth $100,000 from the Army Research Office. Department of Defense, IBM, Intel, and others.

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How The IBM PC Made Me Appreciate Entrepreneurs

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Way back in the early eighties, I was privileged to be part of the original IBM PC development team, led by Don Estridge. For example, even though we were leading an entrepreneurial effort within IBM, we found it a challenge to deal with the inbred mainframe culture, reverence for process, and accounting practices of a large company.

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TaskUs Names Sales VP

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Los Angeles-based TaskUs , which provides business process outsourcing, said this week that it has named Jarrod Johnson as Senior Vice President of Sales. Johnson was most recently SVP of Sales, Marketing, and Client Development at FacilitySource, and also had served at IBM and Xerox. Johnson will be based in Dallas.

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In a Strong Wind Even Turkeys Can Fly

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There were the existing large consulting firms like IBM, CSC, Cap Gemini, PwC and Deloitte Consulting as well as the upstarts like Scient, Viant, Razorfish, Diamond Consulting and a host of others. During the down market they were able to double down on recruiting, sales, outsourcing, new market entries and marketing (yes, with Tiger ads ).

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

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Venture capital is in the process of its own creative destruction with new market entrants and new models of innovation at the precise moment that our industry itself is contracting. Not IBM, HP, Accenture, Cisco, Salesforce.com or anybody else. Amazon changed our industry. This is mind boggling. That little online book company.

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

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My family had the very first edition of the IBM XT computer with a 10 MB hard drive. My first job after college was as a developer at Andersen Consulting. I don’t believe you can hire great business people who outsource the development to a hot incubator who builds you code to match your ambitions.

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