This vendible previously appeared in War on the Rocks.In the past, headlines well-nigh the Pentagon lightweight its financial audit then would never have unprotected my attention. But having been in the middle of this conversation when I served on one of the Defense Department’s newsy boards, I understand why the More

A CEO running a B-to-B startup in needs to live in the municipality where their merchantry is – or else they’ll never scale.I was having breakfast with Erin, an ex-student, just off a red-eye flight from New York. She’s built a 65-person startup selling enterprise software to the financial services More

This post previously appeared on the readwrite blog. A CEO running a B-to-B startup in needs to live in the municipality where their merchantry is – or else they’ll never scale.I was having breakfast with Erin, an ex-student, just off a red-eye flight from New York. She’s built a 65-person startup More

This post previously appeared in the Harvard Merchantry Review.Three types of organizations – Incubators, Accelerators and Venture Studios – have emerged to reduce the risk of early-stage startup failure by helping teams find product/market fit and raise initial capital. Venture Studios are an “idea factory” with their own employees searching More

This post previously appeared in Poets & Quants.I just spent a month and a half at Imperial College London co-teaching a “Wicked” Entrepreneurship class. In this specimen Wicked doesn’t midpoint morally evil, but refers to really ramified problems, ones with multiple moving parts, where the solution isn’t obvious. (Understanding and More

This post previously appeared in EIX.In the early stages of a startup your hypotheses well-nigh all the parts of your business model are your profound beliefs. Think of profound beliefs as “strong opinions loosely held.”You can’t be an constructive founder or in the C-suite of a startup if you don’t More