
TAPE SUCKS: Inside Data Domain, A Silicon Valley Growth Story

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www8.gsb.columbia.eduThere’s lots of well-intentioned advice out there about the risks if a business takes off and there isn’t a solid foundation to stand on. But at the same time, it's no surprise that startup leaders see words like "optimizing headcount through capacity planning models" and file it away as unnecessary bureaucracy that’s more befitting of the “BigCo” ... See more
How Talent Teams Can Better Weather Boom-and-Bust Cycles
Google was a company built on the values of its founders, who harbored ambitions to build a powerful corporation that would impact the entire world, at the same time loathing the bureaucracy and commitments that running such a company would entail.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Winblad: One of the big mistakes is that, when you form a company, there's a difference between being an inventor and being entrepreneurial to leading a company—being the CEO or, especially, the leader. You're not fending for yourself anymore. You're actually fending for shareholders. They can't be fending for their salary; they can't be fending fo
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