Founders don’t often voluntarily replace themselves. It’s usually not their decision to step aside to let someone else take over the leadership of their comp...

It’s the entrepreneur’s dream. An idea hatched in a garage blossoms into a venture that begins to scale and attract mainstream customers. Very few ideas ever...

Just weeks after the attacks of 9/11/2001, we held our regularly scheduled quarterly board meeting with our venture capital populated Board of Directors. As ...

You worked hard. You beat the odds. Your company is growing fast. How could your board possibly have any motivation to replace you? If you are like most foun...

No founder ever wants to be replaced, although statistics say that most who run successful companies will be. But how do you know when it’s time for you to g...

There is a dirty little secret that executive recruiters would like you not to discover. It’s one that experienced managers have known for a long time but pr...

The Chasm, according to Moore, depicts a difficult-to-cross gulf between early market adopters and main street. According to Moore, marketing behaviors that ...

I admit that I’m cynical. I come by it naturally, a product of my life experiences. Cynicism is generally not admired. My wife hates my cynicism. She says th...

An alarming trend is occurring in a growing number of technology initial public offerings (IPO). Just prior to selling shares to an unsuspecting public, foun...

Diamonds may be forever, but the role of a CEO, even when you are the company founder, can be a precarious one. Most CEOs of venture backed companies are rep...

Here we go again! It’s hard to feel bad for the investors and banks who lined up to place their bets on a company whose founder’s persona is inextricably-lin...

Just about every business decision, whether it's the launching of a new product, the entry into an adjacent market, an acquisition, as well as many day-to-da...

Despite the remarkable tales we read about founders who dropped out of college and started their ventures in the garages to emerge years later as the CEO of ...