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In all the companies I have worked with, one of the key questions is “what role should we give to the technical founder?” Actually, this SHOULD be one of the key, well thought out questions…but it’s not. Fundamentally, these are completely different roles requiring very different types of personalities. But, either because one is perceived [...]

One of the things I have always loved about start ups is that smart, ambitious, courageous people can reach high and take on a job bigger than they have ever had before…unless you are the CEO. This seems rather ironic. On the one hand, we have all heard the numbers from recruiters about how many [...]

All my clients seem to be having conflict these days — gives me a great “lab” to study how Silicon Valley does conflict. According to studies, there are 5 basic styles of conflict – FORCE is focusing on “being right” at the possible expense of the relationship – ACCOMODATE is giving in (out of fear [...]

Fear of failure. Not quite the emotion one connects with entrepreneurs — those fantastic dreamers who go after the “no one has ever done it before” dreams. But so often I see a strange (and not desirable) transition happen about a year into a start-up’s life. During the early days everyone has bought into the [...]