Growing Smart (Part II)

LIMITING CONSTRAINTS
In the beginning, every start up business has an endless number of hurdles that it must overcome in order to survive.  But as growth becomes a reality, and management is able to look out beyond the next 30 days, there are always a few issues that stand out as the biggest limiting factors between current [...]

Growing Smart (Part I)

NECESSARY CHAOS
In almost every start up company I have worked with, there is sense of chaos that pervades the organization – particularly in the early days.  The reason is simple: all of the company resources are focused on the validation of the underlying business proposition (i.e., will someone pay for what we are making/providing?).  As [...]

How to Help a First Time CEO

Yesterday, Bijan Salehizadeh of Highland Capital Partners had an interesting post on PE Hub where he offered some friendly advice to first time CEOs.  A large part of the article was dedicated to warning CEOs of the perils of waiting to share bad news with their board of directors.  Bijan asserted that first time CEOs are prone to keeping bad [...]

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