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 … Read More »
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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 … Read More »
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.) Most … 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 … 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 … 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 my … 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 … 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 … 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 … 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. … Read More »
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