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- Harvard's tips to founders on how to delegate more effectively.
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By Carleen Hawn,
September 18, 2007 —
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Editor’s Note: I said I would post this Monday, but we rearranged. Sorry.
Plenty of our readers express feeling overwhelmed by the quantity and variety of management responsibilities they have to shoulder as startup founders. A standard leadership solution to this problem is “hire-up and delegate-down.” But doi… CONTINUE READING
- 4 Rules for When and How to Spend Startup-Cash
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By Carleen Hawn,
September 17, 2007 —
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One of the biggest problems for founders is knowing when to spend your startup’s cash. You don’t always know when you’re going to need money, and there rarely ever seems to be enough of it, so, the tendency is to covet it—sometimes to your company’s detriment. It’s a given that you’ll have to pay for the… CONTINUE READING
- When to sell your business, rather than raise more venture $$
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By Carleen Hawn,
September 17, 2007 —
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- A friend of GigaOM, blogger Scott Lawton, passed on to us a great blog post that reveals why it is sometimes better to sell your business than raise more venture capital. The example used to illustrate this is Alan Warms’ decision to sell his shop, BuzzTracker, to Yahoo! for about $5 million, rather than raise a comparable round of funding... CONTINUE READING
Business is like activism. It is a way of saying what kind of world you want to live in. Protest is not enough. You need a vision to be successful.
—“Anita Roddick”:http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Deaths.html?_r=1&oref=slogin, founder of The Body Shop.Founders’ Lesson #19: Is your business-mission an expression of ‘the world’ you want to live in? If not, find your real vision, and found a company around that, instead.
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i stop subscribing for a year or two after the bust. but i’ve been reading Business2 right from the beginning and even have the first issue still sealed.
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Hasan Luongo
great insight into the craftsmanship of entrepreneurship. not only are these guys on the right path but their lessons learned and insight is top notch.
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Carleen Hawn
Elad,
Your interpretation may be just a bit too literal. The point of Ben’s piece is to NOT trust you gut read more on Why you should trust your gut.…