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Survivors

Survivors

By Mark Suster on July 30, 2015

Failure. It smells. People are afraid of it. It’s like cancer. When you have it you find you who your true friends are because they’re the ones who double down on helping, on being available, on listening, on understanding. Most people run from failure or disease because they’re hard to handle. Hard to know how […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged failure, startup lessons, survivor

When things go wrong

When things go wrong

By Paul Miller on July 14, 2015

In technology, as in so much else, things go wrong all the time. Web sites go down, companies lose your data, and more. We all know this and – to greater or lesser degrees – broadly accept that it will eventually happen to us. The real trick, often, isn’t to prevent everything going wrong but to […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged customer experience, customer relationship, failure, outage, tftd, transparency

So You're Shutting Down Your Startup And You're Scared...

So You’re Shutting Down Your Startup And You’re Scared…

By Chris Yeh on February 10, 2014

I ran across Startups Anonymous, and a post entitled, “We’re Shutting Down and I’m Scared” caught my eye. For better or worse, I’ve either been through or participated in shutting many companies down, so I thought it would be fun and potentially useful to provide my blow-by-blow advice: *** After over two years, backing from […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged failure | 1 Response

Celebrating Failures

Celebrating Failures

By Chirag Mehta on July 1, 2013

Being a passionate design thinker I am a big believer in failing fast and failing often. I have taken this one step further; I celebrate one failure every week. Here’s why: You get more comfortable looking for failures, analyzing them, and learn from it I have sat through numerous post-mortem workshops and concluded that the […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged design thinking, failure, Learning, management

Why most startups have to fail, and why that's a good thing

Why most startups have to fail, and why that’s a good thing

By Chris Yeh on June 4, 2013

Some people think I’m a pessimist for pointing out the long odds against any particular startup succeeding.  It’s not fun to hear that even venture-backed startups have a 90% chance of failure. But startup failure isn’t just reality; it’s also a necessity…and even a benefit. 1) The number of companies getting started far exceeds the […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged failure

Why I hate acquihires (unless I'm doing the selling)

Why I hate acquihires (unless I’m doing the selling)

By Chris Yeh on May 20, 2013

The always insightful Mark Suster recently tackled the subject of acquihires–the practice of large companies buying small startups simply to acquire their people.  Mark lays out an excellent argument for why the acquiring companies are actually losing out when they make acquihires: “You have been at Google, Salesforce.com, Yahoo! for years. You have worked faithfully. […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged acquihire, failure, mergers and acquisitions, VC, vceconomics | 1 Response

Who is to blame when a SAP Payroll Project Fails

Who is to blame when a SAP Payroll Project Fails

By Jarret Pazahanick on February 14, 2013

There have been several high profile SAP Payroll failures over the past few years in the United States at places such as the State of California, National Grid,  Kentucky Government, City of Portland, LA School District, City of San Diego, California Judicial Council, Marin County and an epic train wreck happening down under at Queensland […]

Posted in Application Software, Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged cloud, consulting, failure, HCM, human_capital_management, payroll, saas, sap, sap_business_suite, sapmentor, successfactors

A debate with the Doctor of Failure

A debate with the Doctor of Failure

By John Taschek on November 21, 2010

Failure happens. There are many issues and stakeholders in any technology implementation process and any of them adds complexity that can lead to failure. The question is how much technology, the DNA of the technology vendor, and other stakeholders contributes to the failure. Is it always a project management issue…

Posted in General | Tagged cloud, cloud computing, failure, IT Project Failures, Krigsman, salesforce.com, social, Taschek, Web/Tech, Weblogs

Failure Fridays

Failure Fridays

By Guest Authors on September 24, 2010

Someone very close to me is about to begin a very cool new gig. Its a role that most would love and in fact be envious of (I sure am – and will be blogging about it soon!). So this…

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged corporate culture, failure, Henry Ford, History, innovation, Napoleon Hill, success, Thomas Edison, Winston Churchill | 3 Responses

And They Call Me Crazy

And They Call Me Crazy

By Mark Fidelman on September 11, 2010

Nine years ago today I was driving into the city of Boston to pick up my wife.  Normally she’d take the ferry from Boston back to Hingham, but today was different.  I quickly noticed while driving northbound on Hwy 93 that all of the cars were headed South.  There wasn’t a single car driving North […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged 9/11, boston, enterprise 2.0, failure

There Is No Upside In Being A Jerk

There Is No Upside In Being A Jerk

By Chris Yeh on August 16, 2010

The world is full of jerks. But it must be some kind of innate instinct, because there is no upside to being a jerk. One of the first questions I ever responded to on Quora asked if being nice was an advantage for VCs. The consensus was that success trumps affability, and that entrepreneurs would […]

Posted in General | Tagged assholes, failure

Little Bets and the Power Of Quitting

Little Bets and the Power Of Quitting

By Chris Yeh on August 6, 2010

As an entrepreneur or a company, you should appreciate the underrated power of quitting. While we often glorify a never-say-die attitude, and celebrate the entrepreneurs who build great companies despite near-universal criticism, extreme persistence comes at a price. I caught up with a friend yesterday, a high-profile entrepreneur who will remain nameless (I forgot to […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged failure, google, persistence

What is the Right Amount of Money to Raise at a Startup?

What is the Right Amount of Money to Raise at a Startup?

By Mark Suster on March 11, 2010

This is part of my ongoing series on Raising Venture Capital. Recently I’ve been debating with a number of young startup companies that are raising money in the next few months, “what is the right about of capital to raise at a startup?” It’s a tricky question with no clear answer.  There are trade offs. […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged Entrepreneur Advice, Entrepreneurship, failure, Raising Venture Capital, Startup Advice, startups, Strategy, vc funding

Social Media is the New Collaboration

Social Media is the New Collaboration

By Dan Morrill on November 4, 2009

When we look at corporate frameworks and how we use collaboration and innovation across corporate boundaries, including collaborating with other companies to get a product out to market we are looking at social networking. We just have a fancy new label for it, but in the longer run, what we saw as collaborative teaming and […]

Posted in General | Tagged Comcast, failure, mba, Media and Web 2.0, mesure, process, social media, social networking

You’re Most Vulnerable Right After You Win a Deal

You’re Most Vulnerable Right After You Win a Deal

By Mark Suster on September 10, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series, “Start-up Lessons.” Recently I wrote a blog post about how I hated losing, but I embrace it.  My starting line with every entrepreneur is that everything I learned about being an entrepreneur I learned from F’ing it up on my first business.  I even put that in the […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged Entrepreneurship, failure, sales, startup lessons, startups

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