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Don't you love his voice?
Why did Bob Metcalfe decide to take more computer classes?
- How did you think Bob convince his boss to send him to Hawaii before taking his job at Xerox Parc?
- Objective of EtherNet
- How was it different from Arpanet?
- Xerox Parc was in an Economic Free zone.. what does that mean?
- What did Bob want from Venture Capitalists?
- What was the produce sold by 3COM? why did it sell like hot cakes?
How does a "workstation" differ from a PC?
- Where was the SUN workstation created?
- What motivated Andreas to leave Germany?
- SUN - standard circuit parts, standard UNIX software, standard Ethernet.
- What did Vinod Kushla mean by: "I want the goose that lays the golden eggs".
- Why did SUN call Bill Joy to join SUN?
- How hard was it for SUN to get money to get started?
- Why did the Workstation sell so well?
Where was Novell based?
- How was Novell doing financially?
- How did things change?
- What did Ray Noorda find at Novell that motivated him to restore the company?
- How did Novell file server work?
- Why did it sell so well?
- What did IBM do when people started Networking?
- What did Microsoft do when people started Networking?
- Why did Microsoft try to buy Novell instead of building its own Network OS?
- hey... how about Yahoo?
- Since Microsoft could not get Novell, what did they decide to do first?
- Novell vs IBM LAN manager
- What happened to Novell Network OS? we don't hear about it now a days ...
How did McAffee get rich with free software?
- Venture Capitalists
- McAfee had enough money, why did he look for Venture Capitalists?
- What is a typical return in a successful venture capital investment?
The four risks for Venture Capital
- People
- Market
- Technical
- Financial
Where did Cisco get created?
- What was Cisco's product? what did it do?
- What motivated the Cisco founders to build and sell Routers?
- Why did Sandy fall for Len? his great legs?
- How would you like to work for Len Bosack?
- How did Cisco finance its start up?
- Why did Cisco Routers were so successful?
- How much did Len and Sandy spend on Market research? How did they decide on how much to charge?
- If you take venture capital, what should you be prepared to deal with?
- Is Sandy still an entrepreneur?