Scaling Is Hard. Here’s How Akamai Did It.
I have been thinking lately about how hard it is to scale start-ups. The Lean Start-Up movement, as exemplified in Eric Ries’ book The Lean Start-Up, has appropriately focused a great deal of...
View ArticleWhat’s Wrong with Today’s Entrepreneurs
An interview with Dan McGinn, HBR senior editor and author of the forthcoming article “Too Many Pivots, Too Little Passion: What’s Wrong with Today’s Entrepreneurism.” Download this podcast A written...
View ArticleIn India, Distribution is God
At 4 a.m. every day, you will find a crowd of hawkers near the Chhatrapati Shivaji Railway Terminus in Mumbai. They line up to buy their daily inventory of newspapers and magazines from 15-odd...
View ArticleAdopt an Immigrant Mindset to Advance Your Career
If you want to remain relevant and advance your career in today’s global marketplace, you need to serve as an enabler of business growth and innovation. One of the best ways to do this is to adopt an...
View ArticleFive Questions to Ask Before Joining that Start-up
Mark Zuckerberg reinvigorated an entire generation when he added nine zeroes to the end of his bank account before he was 30 years old. He made start-ups great again. He showed the world that youth is...
View ArticleHow Bad Leadership Spurs Entrepreneurship
What do 70% of successful entrepreneurs have in common? They all incubated their business ideas while employed by someone else. Indeed, most people start their own companies — or go freelance — in...
View ArticleThe Middle East, Business, and the Long Term
Vaclav Havel once made an important distinction between optimism and hope. “Hope,” he noted, “is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense,...
View ArticleThe Rise of Co-Working Office Spaces
“Co-working” office spaces, leasable by the day or month (think RocketSpace in San Francisco or The Hive in Denver) are multiplying in cities all over the country. Demand is predicted to expand by as...
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