Can a person with a liberal arts degree, corporate consulting experience, and a subscription to Harvard Business Review fit on the founding team of a startup, report to an engineer-founder, use Facebook –- and contribute? Yes! And it’s important for two reasons: first, it sets a collaborative, … Read More »
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Healthcare costs are in the news most every day now. In the United States, especially, political debate is focused on the question of whether and how healthcare should be provided to the estimated 50 million Americans currently living without health insurance. We’re raising the issue on Found|READ … Read More »
“Negotiation is a core competence for life, “not merely an important skill to be wheeled out for special occasions,” say James Sebenius and David Lax. The pair, a current and a former professor of the Harvard Business School (respectively), are also partners in a negotiation consultancy … Read More »
Patrons of Found|READ know that we’re big fans of The McKinsey Quaterly, an knowledge-rich periodical published by the consulting firm, McKinsey & Co., based on client-cases from the firm’s practice. This week’s edition has a great essay detailing the mangement benefits of one organizational tool … Read More »
I read an interesting piece yesterday morning in The Los Angeles Times on the topic of how business leaders can use storytelling to inspire their employees and affect positive change in their organizations. Yes, storytelling. It was a book review, actually (reprinted from the Financial Times), … Read More »
Great news this morning from Dow Jones VentureOne on the health of the start-up industry, which the research firm finally declares to be in the midst of a“liquidity boom”! Already this year some $28.4 billion has been raised through M&A transactions, with 90 of these mergers or … Read More »
There are new data out on “pre-money” startup valuations, and it indicates that now is the time to raise money if your young company needs it. Why? Because “pre-money” valuations of startups — the base line value used by VCs to determine the smallest amount of … Read More »
Yesterday I had the opportunity to interview Web Strategist, blogger, and Found|READ contributor, Jeremiah Owyang . He talked about all the things he learned on a recent business tour of Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan. Turns out he learned a lot, and not just about these … Read More »
Editor’s Note: Matt Rogers is the founder of Aroxo, a new web-retail site based in London. He is also a regular contributor to Found|READ. This essay on bootstrapping, originally published Sept. 12, has been updated especially for us. We’ll update it with links to Matt’s … Read More »
“Second Life was just unfundable,” Linden Labs founder Philip Rosedale tells Inc. magazine, in this interview. We’re huge fans of Inc. at Found|READ, a traditional magazine dedicated to entrepreneurs that is just full of great business tales and profiles. The site also … Read More »
We’ve decided to lighten things up a bit. Not because we think our content is too serious. It’s just that this founder thing is really tough. As one entrepreneur I interviewed recently told me: “Being a founder is a bi-polar emotional experience. I go from being the ‘ebullient … Read More »
Editor’s Note: In June this year, Paras Chopra, founder of Precimark, a startup that mined social networks for talent, business intelligence and marketing purposes, shot off an email to his staff informing them that their little company would be no more. Under the motto … Read More »
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