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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 a current “internal” round.) Tesla was […] Read more »

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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 »

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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 the […] Read more »

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My friend, and founder, Amy Lang, has about as well-rounded a portfolio of experience as any startup-type could hope for. Having begun her career in recruiting at Arthur Andersen, Amy was a pre-IPO staffer at Netscape, then worked at Oracle, and later went to Yahoo! where […] Read more »

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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 founded in 1997 — out […] Read more »

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Today we’ve picked up a useful piece in Crain’s Chicago Business on how entrepreneurs can do more for their small companies with tax write-offs. With only three weeks left in the year, the clock is ticking. Crain’s interviewed accountant Russell Romanelli, of the firm Wolf & […] Read more »

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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 »

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This morning I ran across a nice interview in Inc. magazine with Google’s Matthew Glotzbach, who runs Google Enterprise, the search giant’s small business solutions unit. Matthew told Inc.’s Jason Del Rey that he believes small companies “have not only the imperative, but also the advantage […] Read more »

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For your company’s prospects, Marc Andreessen says “the market matters most” — more than product, team, and even b-plan. For your prospects as a leader, a terrific Op-Ed in Thursday’s Wall Street Journal illuminates the reasons why personal judgment trumps every other criterion — even experience. […] Read more »

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Fortune magazine recently ran a feature on PayPal alumni that includes folks like Slide CEO & Founder Max Levchin, the YouTube boys and David Sacks of Geni. The star of the story, however is Peter Thiel, co-founder and former CEO of PayPal and now a hedge […] Read more »

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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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I’ve been a Mac user for many years now and a business owner for just as many. I’ve needed apps for everything from invoicing and time tracking to contact and money management. I’ve used literally hundreds of applications over the past few years and know how […] Read more »

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