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Instinct or Intention? You need to hire, train and manage team members, both advisors and staff, to drive a firm's success and profitability. |
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Breaking Through Barriers The first few months of a new year is an ideal time for a company founder to make sure the business is ready to climb to the next level of success. |
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HBS Working Knowledge
April 4, 2012 |
When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors In his new book, The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup, HBS Associate Professor Noam Wasserman tells readers how to anticipate, avoid, and, if necessary, recover from the landmines that can destroy a nascent company before it has the chance to thrive. |
HBS Working Knowledge
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Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want? Entrepreneurs are often motivated by the potential of money and control, but very few ever achieve both. |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 15, 2005
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The Founding CEO's Dilemma: Stay or Go? Professor Noam Wasserman discusses research about founder-CEO succession. |
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A Short History Of Unpassed Torches History is littered with the troubled successions of charismatic entrepreneurs and once and future kings. |
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HBS Working Knowledge
August 21, 2012
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How to Sink a Startup Noam Wasserman, author of the recently released book "The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup," discusses ill-advised entrepreneurial behavior. |
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Common Cause What's the key to finding the right team? Hire people with a passion for your mission. |
AskMen.com
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A Successful CEO Made These 5 Mistakes - So You Don't Have To I've raised venture capital. I've sold companies. I've scaled products to millions of users. And I've made every mistake in the book. |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 7, 2011
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Creating the Founders' Dilemmas Course Students study the quandaries that virtually all entrepreneurs will face when trying to realize the dream of launching a start-up -- from deciding when to start the company to learning how to make a graceful exit. |
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Grist: Save the Founder Every business - no matter how big or how mature - needs an entrepreneur at the helm. |
Registered Rep.
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Revenge of the Nerds' Bosses To the dismay of caterers and foosball vendors everywhere, the IT gravy train came grinding to a halt. Now, with technology spending growing again, we must avoid the hiring mistakes of the dot-com boom. |
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The Power of Positioning Playing out of position is something that rarely works out long term. It's true in sports and it's true for financial advisory teams. |
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Formulas for Success: Howl at the Moon Probing for traits that expose how individuals think and behave, and reveal what they value, can often be the key to a successful advisor hire. |
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How To Hire The Perfect Employee Look at why you want to hire someone -- and what job they'll do. |
AskMen.com
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Putting Founders First How one VC Firm coddles its CEOs. |
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Good Managers Hire Smart Workers What decision makers are doing to find the best and brightest. |
Bio-IT World
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The Upside of the Downturn Biotech entrepreneurs need to rethink how they raise capital and craft business model frameworks. |
Entrepreneur
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A Group of Greats Entrepreneurs comprise an incredible, diverse community. |
BusinessWeek
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Startup Millionaires Even Before the IPO These days private equity firms are buying entrepreneurs' stock before their companies reach Wall Street. And Internet ad companies are leading the trend. But not all VCs are thrilled about what's happening. |
