Finance & Operations
Finance & Operations
Stack Ranking: The Management Technique that Cost Microsoft Its Creativity
Why has Microsoft fallen flat so often? Stack ranking, a "devastatingly destructive" management technique, may be at the heart of the company's problems.
by Contributing AuthorFinance & Operations
5 Rules for Leveraging Your Investors to Grow and Develop Your Team
By leveraging your investors correctly, you might just find they're some of the best recruiters you'll ever have.
by Contributing AuthorFinance & Operations
Operating Reviews: 6 Preparatory Practices for Successful Execution
Operating reviews. No other meeting consistently impacts the performance of a company more. But in order to execute them successfully, you’ve got to be prepared.
by Scott MaxwellFinance & Operations
Sell Your Company, Keep Your Vision: How to Get Acquired Without Losing Your Core Values
Amit Kulkarni, co-founder of Manymoon, now Do.com, which was acquired by salesforce.com in 2011, reveals how to get acquired while maintaining your vision and values.
by Contributing AuthorFinance & Operations
The Best Funding Option You Haven’t Considered
Tired of chasing venture capital and fed up with dealing with banks? There's actually a third funding option that might be your best bet.
by Contributing Author
Finance & Operations
Mapping the Ideal Qualities of Your Perfect Investment Partnership
Raising capital is tough, but knowing what you want to get out of an investor take you a long way towards an ideal investment partnership.
by Ricky PelletierFinance & Operations
M&A: Tactic or Strategy?
As founders build their growth agendas it's important for them to understand M&A should be a means to an end, not the end objective, itself.
by Contributing Author Finance & Operations
Leveraging the Board of Directors: A Teachable Moment For CEOs
A goal of every CEO and board of directors member needs to be addressing "elephant-in-the-room" challenges and responding with teachable moments.
by George RobertsFinance & Operations
VC Speed Dating: 5 Tips for Pitching Investors and Finding a Match
Funding is as much about finding a good partner as it is about securing cash. When you think about it, is pitching investors really all that different from finding love?
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