Entrepreneurship
Zappos says bye-bye to the concept of managers
Zappos is getting rid of its managers and creating a holacracy, wherin a company has: No people managers. Maximum autonomy. Organic expansion. When a job gets too big, hire another person. Tension resolution. Identify issues people are facing, write them down, and resolve them systematically. Make everything explicit – from vacation policies to decision makers…
Read MoreThe difference between a pessimist, an optimist and a leader
“The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.” John Maxwell The CEO of the Children’s Museum of Atlanta, Jane Turner, shared this quote with me and the rest of the board over the break. If there was ever a leader that I’ve met that is equal parts…
Read MoreI wasn’t lying when I said I funded my first company with personal credit cards
Raghu (a great friend and one of my partners at Spunlogic) recently found this print out of the credit cards that laid out their balances and APR as of 6/8/06. As I’ve mentioned before, we self-funded Spunlogic through personal credit cards until we were able to get a line of credit with Suntrust (you can…
Read MoreI asked 17 of Atlanta’s most successful FEMALE entrepreneurs what it means to be an entrepreneur…
Last week I wrote a blog post where I asked 17 of Atlanta’s top entrepreneurs to finish the sentence, “To be an entrepreneur is to…”. Fortunately, I have many female entrepreneur friends that quickly pointed out that I included exactly zero female entrepreneurs on my list. And that’s really inexcusable. We have such a vibrant…
Read MoreThe ultimate partnership
Last night I celebrated the recent sale of Engauge with my three Spunlogic partners, Raj Choudhury, Danny Davis and Raghu Kakarala. We had so much fun talking about the good old days, reminiscing about our biggest successes and failures, and catching up with each other on what we’re all up to today. As I drove…
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