What do I mean by building the company as opposed to building the business? Building the business means obsessing over things like product features, getting traction with early clients, competition, and generating buzz Building the company means obsessing over things like HR policies, company values and culture, long-term strategy, and...

What does your company do?  In most companies there are as many different answers as there are employees.  Humans simply aren’t capable of all being on exactly the same page. Large companies solve, or rather try to solve, this problem by sending executives to preach the message in classrooms where...

Today I’m not talking about the bubble in Tech, I’m talking about the bubble that surrounds most startups. I’m not the first person to write that sometimes startups develop their own little bubble, but I did have a recent refresher in the lesson and thought I’d retell it.  When you...