Entrepreneurship


The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

--George Bernard Shaw

 

How To Start a Company

How To Run A Company

How To Manage A Board of Directors

How to Close a Sale

On Venture Capitalists

The Expectations Game

Act on Facts, Not Faith

What's wrong with American corporate structure --and how to fix it

On Profit Maximization as the Social Responsibility of Business

The Role of Marketing in a Start-Up

Move over, CEO: Here Come the Directors

How Cisco's CEO Works the Crowds

The Fear Factor

To Partner or Not To Partner, That is The Question

The Hard Job of Interviewing

Meet Jason Fried

The only magazine I have ever read cover to cover

The mathematics of viral marketing

Looking for a really cool job?

Smart people should work in start-ups

9 women cannot make a baby in 1 month

Complacency stumps innovation

Paul Graham on start-ups

James Surowiecki on Boards of Directors

Assembling the team

Pack your products and writings in snack sizes

Are ideas or execution the limiting step of progress

Zero to 1 billion in 4 years or less

On the valuation of private company securities

Why VCs Block Good Exits: Their 80% Failure Rate Forces Them to Swing for the Fence

If you can forecast revenues, you are not innovating enough

Start-up executives need to understand their product

Getting funded means getting fired

How not to write a resume and cover letter, how to get hired (and how not to), and how to screen job candidates

A loophole in stockholder rights every entrepreneur must be aware of

Adaptive Authority Allocation

Helping damnified COPE: The elements of an effective apology

 

How I got into entrepreneurship

 

Other resources for entrepreneurs:

Guy Kawasaki's Blog on Entrepreneurship

Bnoopy: Joe Kraus' blog on entrepreneurship, explaining why there's never been a better time to be an entrepreneur

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