Found: Edge

Harvard's tips to founders on how to delegate more effectively.

By Carleen Hawn, September 18, 2007 —  0 Comments

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

By Carleen Hawn, September 17, 2007 —  1 Comment

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 $$

By Carleen Hawn, September 17, 2007 —  0 Comments

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

Strategic Tool: How to use the 'Scarcity Illusion' to boost your launch.

By Carleen Hawn, September 14, 2007 —  1 Comment

Harvard Business School’s “Working Knowledge”:http://hbswk.hbs.edu/ weekly newsletter has a very helpful piece today, authored by marketing professor “John A. Quelch”:http://drfd.hbs.edu/fit/public/facultyInfo.do?facInfo=ovr&facEmId=jquelch@hbs.edu about how you can take advantage of what he calls “the Sca… CONTINUE READING