Snazzy logos aren’t just for corporations anymore. Occupy.com, the soon-to-be-launched website for the international Occupy protest movement, has turned to crowdsourced design website 99Designs to find a logo. The “Occupy 99Designs” design contest has garnered nearly 400 entries in its first few hours online. Read More »
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Focus. Persevere. Hustle. Follow your gut. Put customers first. Don’t reinvent unnecessary wheels. This is just some of the smart, helpful and brief advice that iStartupLabs CEO Peter Corbett got from CEOs and founders over Twitter. Here, he shares the wisest words. 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 »
Brad Feld maintains a great blog, and yesterday he linked to this terrific post called Notes From Buffett Meeting, dated Feb. 15. The notes are from a Q&A session that Buffett gave to students at the Emory’s Goizueta Business School and… Read More »
Yesterday I had the opportunity to interview Stephen R. Covey, the leadership guru and best-selling author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. If you haven’t read this book, you should. You’ll find it has application to many parts of your life as… Read More »
I read a nice story in Crain’s Small Business today about Scott and Mitch Silver, and their marketing firm Printable Promotions, in Chicago. The piece outlines why the Silver brothers abandoned managing “activities” through their org chart hierarchy, in favor of a flat,… Read More »
Google has paid notoriously low salaries, in exchange for stock options, to its rank and file long since before the stock was north of $600 a share. Well, today’s Question of the Day is about such employee compensation, from a would-be founder named Alex. Alex would… Read More »
We’ve followed the ups and downs at electric car company, Tesla Motors, over the last year. We got hyped like everyone as the startup’s celebrity line-up and fattening coffers was chronicled across the blogosphere. (It’s $140 million in funding with… 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… Read More »
More great stuff from the McKinsey Quarterly today. This time it’s a Q&A with Bill Cambell, a tech titan who, McKinsey writes: “has experienced firsthand the spectrum of Silicon Valley scenarios, ranging from technological breakthroughs to the rocket trajectories of new start-ups to failed spin-offs—and… Read More »
Found|READ contributor Aruni Gunasegaram is preparing to seek angel funding for her current startup, Babble Soft, which builds Web and mobile communication software products that help simplify parents’ lives. This is Aruni’s second company. Her first, Isochron, was a bubble-era dotcom… Read More »