Thirty+ year old business card of Steve Jobs, as Apple Vice President of New Product Development.
via obamapacman.com
Nice. I wasn't even born, yet.
Oct
20
2010
Steve Jobs - VP, New Product Development
Jul
22
2010
How bad MBAs for your startup?
Despite of the common belief that MBAs are typically bad for the startup, I want to disagree with this statement. And to support my point, lets dig into the grounds of the issue.
Entrepreneurs (typically, without MBA, so let me call them non-MBAs :) are coming to form the company, ready to fight for the vision, to lead the passion. At some point there is a need for somebody educate to come onboard. And when MBAs are coming in, entrepreneurs are often making a huge mistake: blinded by the name of b-school and degree, they forget to test candidate to share the same vision and passion.
More than that, some entrepreneurs I know, don't think they need a passionate MBA. Instead, they want a super smart and knowledgable person, to use the best of his knowledge to apply to their problem. They don't even understand why passion is needed for these brutal business men, who are born (or made) leaders.
But the startup is built by those who came to lead, not leaders. MBAs may apply the best of their knowledge, but this wouldn't help to win the market, if they are non guided by passion and belief. Yes, they'd definitely get some portion of it, but never the hearts of mass market, what you are really for.
Disagree? Try Start with Why http://www.amazon.com/dp/1591842808/?tag=iwhite-20 by Simon Sinek first. And than lets talk.
Jun
2
2010
Don't let you site slow down
Nice post on relation between the slowness of your site and page rank (and many business metrics, actually).
Mar
6
2010
HBR March 2010
Started my day with reading thru the March HBR. (Do you start your day like this?)
- Nice research on page 30 concluding that getting cash makes you feel less pain or being socially excluded. (Yes, that's who we are.) There is definitely a possible application of cash to many places to improve them, and it's interesting to see how it was put together.
- One more nice article on page 38 on bankers' practices and the incentives, that, unfortunately, are not long term oriented.
- On page 66 you can find great review of ways to get from the recession and typical strategies used. This doesn't apply directly to the small businesses though, but more in general way, mostly because of operating costs and actual budgets range.
And, generally speaking, I liked this month's issue. Good mix of articles worth reading.
Oct
20
2009
Каждую неделю, по пятницам, Русская Служба Новостей приглашает в эфир Евгения Чичваркина. Это конечно не "серия откровенний от бизнесмена в ссылке", но послушать не помешает.
Эфир с Женей Чичваркиным
Oct
3
2009
The Power of Unwitting Workers
I found this at Harvard Business Review - October 2009 (Page: 26). I thought you should enjoy this page. I really liked it.
"The Power of Unwitting Workers" by Gardiner Morse.
Click the link to see it http://issues.hbrformbas.org/hbreview/200910/?pg=28&pm=2&u1=friend?_id=lgcFAsNk4nyy
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