If you’re like many of us, you’re already thinking over some New Year’s resolutions that will make you a better “you” in 2012. But how are the tech industries’ thought leaders approaching the new year? We asked 12 of them for their resolutions. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Apple’s executive team is undergoing some changes, and one of those changes is a promotion for Eddy Cue to Senior Vice President of Internet Software and Services. Cue will continue to oversee Apple’s online stores and iCloud and take on the challenge of iAd, too. Read more »
It’s important to be proactive and figure out for yourself how your strengths and weaknesses drive your web working preferences. You can improve your job satisfaction and make you happier in your work by finding projects and jobs that play to your strengths and preferences. Read more »
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When Canada’s Silverorange started developing ClusterShot, a web site through which people can upload and sell their photos online, in May of 2008, it was nothing more than a side project members of the 14-person web development firm worked on in the evenings and on weekends. […] Read more »
The barriers to working from home are usually human, according to Rosabeth Moss Kanter, who presents remote working as a solution for “business growth, working families, and a green future.” Kanter, a Harvard Business School professor, cites leadership as an important factor in successful remote working, […] Read more »
According to an article in the Wall Street Journal on Saturday, Steve Jobs is still very much involved in the activities of Apple, and in fact still provides most of the vision, direction, and general control of the company. The WSJ cites people “familiar with the […] Read more »
The launch of Apple’s new unibody aluminum Macs hasn’t been the smoothest ride, for both the company and its loyal customers. There was disappointment over what didn’t (Firewire) and what did (HDCP) make it into the new machines. The innovative new trackpad design nearly underwhelmed thanks […] Read more »
According to comScore, Hulu went from 2.85 million unique visitors in September to 5.34 million uniques in October, for an 87 percent increase. NBC Universal jumped from 16 million uniques in September to almost 24.8 million uniques in October, for a 33 percent bump. Read more »
Economic downturns are hard for everyone, at both work and at home. Week after week there are requests for managers to further reduce budgets, lay off more people and cut projects that were previously classified as “necessary to sustain normal business operations.” These pressures forge managers […] Read more »
We write often about how the only thing predictable at a startup is — the lack of predictability. Today HBS Working Knowledge has a quartet of essays on how you can anticipate surprises, manage disasters vis a vis your team, and ultimately, learn from failures when […] Read more »
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Even before the ruinous prostitution scandal involving New York Governor Eliot Spitzer hit full force last week, pundits had churned out chapter and verse analyzing why this talented and high-achieving man would squander his political capital and leadership potential so recklessly. (Spitzer’s resignation is official today.) […] Read more »
When is the time right for a founder to give up the CEO post? It’s a question you will likely have to ask yourself — if your company is at all successful. I’ve had this founders’ dilemma on the brain ever since I read last week’s […] Read more »
A very thoughtful reader offered up an inspiring quotation in his comment yesterday to our recent post on AllPeers, Good Lessons in One Graceful Failure. We think it is worth promoting. Matt wrote in to say… I know that this quote is used a lot, but […] Read more »
Back in January 2007 while taking a shower I thought up the idea of my startup. ;) I’m a business major, but I can’t write a single line of code. I knew I’d also need someone I to help with marketing and administrative parts and since […] Read more »
Editor’s Note: Ben Yoskovitz is one of our favorite contributors. Today he offers a nice post at his Instigator Blog about vision, and how to keep “the big picture” in focus while struggling through the minutiae of “moving the ball forward” on a daily basis. Ben’s […] Read more »
Editor’s Note: Chris Lyman is the founder and CEO of the enterprise VoIP service provider, Fonality, in Los Angeles. He’s also one of our favorite bloggers, penning candid and humorous essays on the many challenges he faces at his Janitor’s Blog. See Startup Math: 1 + […] Read more »
I love this post, by founder-blogger Scott Converse about his experience trying to find the right CEO to run his company, ClickCaster. Helpful as his investors are to him, Scott writes, it turns out that with respect to this particular challenge, they didn’t give him the […] Read more »
Namaste, Found|READers! It has been several days since you’ve seen a new post on the site, and some of you have sent notes asking why. I’ve been been on a tour of India this last week, visiting with startup founders, investors and large business throughout the […] Read more »
Entrepreneurs often find inspiration in political leaders — as many of you did last week with our Churchill quotation. The effective ones have the ability to motivate us beyond any single set of circumstances, and over time. When I read the latest excerpt from Sen. Barack […] Read more »
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill The man who won, lost and won again, the seat of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, (1940-1945; 1951-1955) knew a thing or two about “carrying on, with vigor,” as he […] Read more »
Another great post from VC Fred Wilson, this one on one of our favorite topics: leadership. Fred wrote Wednesday of a discussion he had recently with a colleague about “the classic visionary leader entrepreneur.” Their conversation turned to Sigmund Freud, the 19th century father of psychology, […] Read more »
Earlier this week, Found|READ contributor Jeremy Garlington sent us a fun post of Prez Candidate-CEO Pairings. A leadership consultant based in Atlanta, Jeremy made some quick assessments of the good and not-so-good characteristics of the various politicos, and lined up each one of them with a […] Read more »
We’ve posted a few times on the leadership qualities of presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton — and what you can learn from them. See: Obama’s Iowa speech: the difference btw. a Tactician and a Leader. The topic is fostering debate all over, including at […] Read more »
Today our friend Owen Thomas, Editor of Valleywag, has commented on the wisdom he sees in Om’s strategy for expanding his GigaOM network with multiple properties and writers. In Om’ Malik’s Smart Move, Owen writes: Blogger Om Malik could never have predicted he’d have a heart […] Read more »
At each year’s end, Inc. magazine elects its “Entrepreneur of the Year.” Deal flow being what it was in 2007, we might have expected the honor this year to grace Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. But maybe he’s gotten too much “ink” already. Instead, the magazine’s editors have […] Read more »
“To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.”– John H. Patterson, 19th century industrialist and founder of National Cash Register Company (NCR). Patterson established one of the nation’s first sales training academies. I’ve been reading the flak over […] Read more »
Dating back to my days as a staff writer for Fast Company, I’ve been a fan of the executive coach and author, Marshall Goldsmith (he has written for the magazine many times.) I’ve been meaning to share an essay Marshall wrote for a presentation to the […] Read more »
As a Founder or a CEO, your job is to build a company that creates sustained value for its employees, customers and stakeholders. Essential to this is defining and living by a set of core values. Why? Because core values breed competitive advantage and sustained value. […] Read more »
VC Rich Moran of Venrock will soon be contributing a regular column to Found|READ. Rich is a Silicon Valley veteran, a former Accenture consultant, and the author of five books, including Nuts, Bolts and Jolts: Fundamental Business and Life Lessons You Must Know. Pick it up. […] Read more »
It matters because if you want to be The King of your startup, some new research out of Harvard Business School suggests your days are likely numbered. HBS’s web magazine Working Knowledge has another useful piece today that addresses the reasons why founding CEO’s are so […] Read more »
Today we introduce FoundWATCH, our new series of video Q&As with business luminaries — serial founders, thought leaders in entrepreneurship, big name investors, and more — all of whom will share their hard-earned wisdom for how you can be more successful with your startups. Our first […] Read more »
Steve Nielsen is the founder and CEO of PartnerUp, a site where entrepreneurs can find business partners, advisors and other business resources, like office space. Today he shares a post on how founders can vet their ideas for success potential. Steve’s says his market research recipe […] Read more »
Veteran VC Ray Rothrock, of Venrock, said something refreshing to me yesterday: “Venture Capital is really all about pattern recognition. We look for patterns it the market, patterns in entrepreneurs, cultural patterns at the startups pitching us.” Rothrock’s pattern recognition thesis is important for founders. […] Read more »
Craiglist founder Craig Newmark chatted breifly with Into the Box host Rachel Natalie Klein about how to find an apartment in New York City, and –more importantly — how to avoid ‘turkey-listings’ on his sites. (“If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.”) […] Read more »
A few days ago a Found|READer introduced me to Ben Yoskovitz and his Instigator Blog. It’s awesome. I had other plans for posting to the site today, but then I found Ben’s piece on the defining factors of a leader, entitled: 10 Essential Business Leadership Skills. […] Read more »
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