Starting a business with a partner (or partners) is very different than starting one alone. The closest analogy I can come up with is that it’s like marrying someone, and the business you build is your child… Having run my own business for over one and half years with a college friend as a partner, I completely agree with the above. At the end of the day, its about matching idealogies and merging interests, and working towards a common goal. And in spite of that, the “marriage” may not last as long as you’d expect it to.
CNet.com carried a piece called “Gwyneth, the Grateful Dead and Google” which described some unusual aspects of Google’s work culture. Fortune also profiled SAS as one of the best places to work for. Read on, but only if you want to risk re-thinking your idea of Camelot.
Knowledge@Emory carries an interesting piece on the pressures and joys of entrepreneurship, culled from the wisdom of many a risk taker… And I am reminded of Dan Bricklin’s quote once again : “As you jump from rock to slippery rock, you have to *like* the feeling.”
The group of judges that preside over the MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition picked their Top 10 Recommendations for Startups this week : Some real gems of wisdom here ; Advice that would be invaluable to all kinds of businesses (and managers), not just startups.
We were meant to work for a living…not a life. Yet, billions of us spend more than a third of each day, in places we don’t want to be, doing work we don’t want to do. Is there an escape? In June of 2002, I chanced upon an essay by email. It came into my life out of the blue, but seemed to echo every thing I wanted to say on the subject. It provided me with hope…and encouragement…giving me a clarity I wished I had had earlier in life…
Through most of my working years, I have been associated with small- to medium-sized firms. I have tried the large-enterprise route too. And come to the realization that the two represent two very different personalities. Neither route is more right or wrong. But the probability of success with any one approach will depend strongly on the kind of person *you* are. Over the next several posts, I will try and highlight some my learnings on this subject to give you a better idea of what the two routes involve…
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