Stop pretending it’s all a party: The social contract of working at a startup By Sarah Lacy On June 25, 2013 Perhaps it’s because I’ve worked my whole career in media and startups. But I’m having a hard time getting super lathered up about Bloomberg’s takedown of what it is like to work at Fab. Don’t hang your jacket on the back of a chair? Conde Nast gets away with this, because fashion is core to its brand. But let’s not stop at Conde Nast. And while we’re at it….how about Bloomberg? Companies are living organisms. Startups are like newborns. Startups are raw outgrowths of founders’ personalities, pure and simple. This isn’t just true when it comes to creating companies. Companies like Yahoo and Google and Facebook and Fab and Airbnb and Github aren’t just reinventing their industries, they are reinventing what it’s like to work in a major corporation in America. For people like me, this is why startups are fun to write about a be in. Right or wrong, I laughed when I read this in Goldberg’s blog today: Claim. Not everything Bloomberg alleges about Fab is funny.
When a Valuable Lesson at Work Became an Invaluable Lesson in Life Gaz de schiste, fracturation hydraulique : pourquoi tant de craintes ? Aux États-Unis, près de 20.000 puits d'exploitation du gaz de schiste devraient voir le jour chaque année jusqu'en 2035 (selon un article paru en juillet 2012 dans Environmental Health). Cependant, jusqu'à 10 puits pourraient être creusés par plateforme afin de réduire l'impact sur le territoire. © Justin Woolford, Flickr, cc ny nc sa 2.0 Gaz de schiste, fracturation hydraulique : pourquoi tant de craintes ? - 4 Photos À l’heure où la France aborde la délicate question de la transition énergétique, un sujet polémique revient de plus en plus sur le devant de la scène : l’exploration et l’exploitation du gaz de schiste. Certains y voient une solution miracle. Cependant, de nombreux mouvements citoyens se sont élevés dans notre pays pour décrier cette filière énergétique. Pour ce premier article sur la question, Futura-Sciences a interrogé Marine Jobert, coauteur du livre intitulé Le vrai scandale des gaz de schiste (éditions Les Liens qui Libèrent). La question des eaux usées à traiter
9 Qualities Of Truly Confident People The Psychology of Entrepreneurial Misjudgment, part 1: Biases 1-6 Mar 24, 2008 Charlie Munger is an 80-something billionaire who cofounded top-tier law firm Munger, Tolles & Olson and is Warren Buffett's long-time partner and Vice-Chairman at Berkshire Hathaway, one of the most successful companies of all time. Some people, including me, consider Mr. Munger to be an even more interesting thinker and writer than Mr. Buffett, and recently a group of Mr. Mr. In this series of blog posts, I will walk through all 25 of the biases Mr. One: Reward and Punishment Superresponse Tendency I place this tendency first in my discussion because almost everyone thinks he fully recognizes how important incentives and disincentives are in changing cognition and behavior. Human response to incentives is indeed a huge behavioral motivator, and I think Mr. There is a wrong-headed and dangerous theory afoot that restricted stock (grants of fully in-the-money shares of stock) is a more appropriate motivator of employees of tech companies than stock options: Mr. ...
When It's Time to Stop Thinking--and Start Doing If you run a start-up--whether it’s for profit or a social enterprise--one of the big questions that you face every day is whether to spend more time thinking about your venture’s problems or just make a decision and take action. If you’re anything like me, you’ve been through an educational process that puts a tremendous emphasis on getting you to think hard before acting and record your thinking in exhaustive detail. Many of America’s greatest entrepreneurs, from Bill Gates to Jeff Bezos, have been through that kind of cerebrally-intensive education at Harvard and Princeton, respectively. To be sure, both institutions have evolved more to encourage their students to get real-world experience than they did when Gates and Bezos were attending them. But over-thinking a problem can be disastrous for a start-up. As a teacher of strategy and entrepreneurship at Babson College--U.S. So, You're Ready to Take Action What does this mean for you as an entrepreneur? How It Works
How to Think Like an Entrepreneur Culture Code: Building A Company YOU Love 100 Must See Interviews With the World's Most Successful Entrepreneurs At Under30CEO we think big. We recently published a list of our Top 50 Most Motivational People on the web and things got a little nuts. The article created incredible buzz all over the web and most importantly we fired up our audience to go out and make something happen. As young entrepreneurs it’s important that we keep swinging for the fences. Super successful investors like Ron Conway say they’d rather invest in an 18 year old Mark Zuckerberg than a 31 year old seasoned entrepreneur because the young Sean Parker types truly think the sky is the limit. At Under30CEO we’re going to carry that mentality into the interviews that we conduct on the site. The list below is the most incredible people to learn from as entrepreneurs and we intend to interview them all…somehow. Introducing our Top 100 Entrepreneurs to Learn from and their best interviews from around the web…1.) 2.) 3.) 4.) 5.) 6.) 7.) 8.) 9.) 10.) 11.) 12.) 13.) 14.) 15.) 16.) 17.) 18.) 19.) 20.) 21.) 22.) 23.) 24.) 25.) 26.)
Five trailblazing women who reinvented their brand Campbell Soup Company CEO Denise Morrison revamped brand to suit younger generationShe has also diversified the company's healthy products by acquiring Bolthouse FarmsCNN charts the evolution of five female-led food and drink brands Leading Women connects you to extraordinary women of our time. Each month, we meet two women at the top of their field, exploring their careers, lives and ideas. (CNN) -- How do you reinvigorate a heritage brand? This month CNN's "Leading Women" sits down with Denise Morrison, the CEO and President of Campbell Soup Company to discuss how she took the firm forward by reinventing the iconic brand. Denise Morrison -- CEO and President, Campbell Soup Company Denise Morrison is one of 21 women currently running Fortune 500 companies. Courtesy Campbell Soup Company Denise Morrison joined the 144-year-old soup company a decade ago. Consumers can also expect 200 new products to hit shelves over the next year. READ: How CEO turned Ingredion into a Fortune 500 company
Can Building Great Products Help You Build Great Teams? - Deep Nishar Silicon Valley was built on amazing products, not on stellar leadership skills. In fact, veterans of some of the world’s most successful tech companies often look with skepticism, even disdain, on efforts to build strong management skills. The premise is that all energy should be focused solely on turning fabulous ideas into hyper growth. It’s true that if a start-up fails — or is sold — the need for enduring leadership may never arise. And in the earliest stages of a company, the need to organize, motivate and inspire large groups of people to accomplish shared goals may not be obvious. But neglecting the art of people management has significant costs for any company that aspires to be around for a while. In my 20 years leading product and user experience teams at several world-class companies, including LinkedIn and Google, I’ve come to adopt what I call my “Seven Principles to Product Bliss.” Rule 1: Know your audience. Rule 2: Simplify. Simple is a feature of great management too.
Starting a Business Despite Student Debt The following is a transcript from a “Growing Your Business” segment interview with Back Yard Gaming founder Mathew Holmes. It is also part of an ongoing series on student debt. Mathew Holmes is a 24-year-old entrepreneur trying to start his own business called Back Yard Gaming . He is also a recent graduate of Johnson and Wales University, paying off nearly $25,000 in student debt. Holmes: A buddy of mine and I have similar mindsets in terms of being entrepreneurs and starting our own company. Scotti: This is after you graduated from college…. Holmes: Well, the main reason actually, because my co-founder has more student debt than I do, is because we thought if we started our own business maybe we can get out of debt faster and basically all the profits and proceeds that we get go back into the company right now but the goal long-term is to use those profits to certainly pay down our loans first and then get started on our debt-free life. Holmes: No, no, I don’t feel free at all.