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How Open Should a Startup CEO be with Staff?

Both Sides of the Table

” Your peer group is envious of your finally doing what they’ve always wanted to do but found it too hard to give up the golden paycheck and predictable future. ” Your peer group is envious of your finally doing what they’ve always wanted to do but found it too hard to give up the golden paycheck and predictable future.

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Cultivating Connections: Phaedon Stough’s Vision for the Startup Community at Innovation Bay

AsiaTechDaily

Founded in 2003, it began as a platform for founders to connect, exchange insights, and glean knowledge from peers. Innovation Bay, a pioneering community group in the tech sector, powers collaboration and innovation.

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In Love, In Partnership: How One Couple Finds Success at Home and at Work

Entrepreneurs' Organization

They started their first joint venture, Blue Moon Pizza, in 2003. It’s true that you should treat your business partnership like a marriage. After all, it’s important whom you select and no matter who that person is you’ll have to work hard at it. But what about when your business partner and your marriage partner are the same person?

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A $30B Software Company from a $15m Investment

Tomasz Tunguz

From 2003 to 2014, Constellation’s revenues compounded from $80m to more than $5b, an average of 25% annually. But at scale, software holding companies can grow at similar rates & trade at similar multiples to their venture-backed peers. But Constellation arrives at that growth in a very different way : they acquire to grow.

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Meet Tatiana Glad, our New Global Executive Director

Impact Hub

We’re excited to share that Tatiana Glad joins the Impact Hub global team as our new Executive Director. Tatiana, current Co-Founder and Director of Impact Hub Amsterdam, takes over from Gabriela Gandel, who led the network for the past 10 years. Q: Tatiana, to start with, how would you describe yourself in 3 words? A: A pragmatic visionary!

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Lessons Learned After 15 Years in Business

Entrepreneurs' Organization

2003 / Great service really does win business. Jill shared lessons learned and more in a blog post to mark the occasion. Below is an excerpt from the original article. I’m incredibly grateful for the amazing customers and employees who brought us to this milestone! Clients stuck around and referred new clients to us! I was nervous!

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Input from women key to successful companies

Innovation 2 Enterprise

Here is McKinsey’s bottom line — the most diverse companies are now more likely than ever to outperform less diverse peers on profitability. I have been thinking lately about how the seeds of innovation get planted — in an individual. In a family. In a state. Women are key to growing successful companies. A Family Example.