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    Why it’s Bullshit to Keep a Founder Around After His Ouster
    Les Trachtman
    • Sep 3, 2019
    • 5 min

    Why it’s Bullshit to Keep a Founder Around After His Ouster

    Founders don’t often voluntarily replace themselves. It’s usually not their decision to step aside to let someone else take over the lead...
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    Ruined by Success
    Les Trachtman
    • Aug 24, 2019
    • 3 min

    Ruined by Success

    It’s the entrepreneur’s dream. An idea hatched in a garage blossoms into a venture that begins to scale and attract mainstream customers....
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    Don’t Delegate Responsibility Unless You Give Up Authority
    Les Trachtman
    • Aug 24, 2019
    • 5 min

    Don’t Delegate Responsibility Unless You Give Up Authority

    Just weeks after the attacks of 9/11/2001, we held our regularly scheduled quarterly board meeting with our venture capital populated Boa...
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    I Founded a Company That is Growing Fast; Why Would My Board Replace Me?
    Les Trachtman
    • Aug 24, 2019
    • 8 min

    I Founded a Company That is Growing Fast; Why Would My Board Replace Me?

    You worked hard. You beat the odds. Your company is growing fast. How could your board possibly have any motivation to replace you? If yo...
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    How Do You Know When It's Time To Go?
    Les Trachtman
    • Aug 24, 2019
    • 8 min

    How Do You Know When It's Time To Go?

    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...
    5 views0 comments
    A Broken Recruiting Process
    Les Trachtman
    • Aug 24, 2019
    • 5 min

    A Broken Recruiting Process

    There is a dirty little secret that executive recruiters would like you not to discover. It’s one that experienced managers have known fo...
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    How Lessons from Crossing the Chasm can extend your reign
    Les Trachtman
    • Aug 24, 2019
    • 9 min

    How Lessons from Crossing the Chasm can extend your reign

    The Chasm, according to Moore, depicts a difficult-to-cross gulf between early market adopters and main street. According to Moore, marke...
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    Why The Best Entrepreneurs are Cynical Optimists
    Les Trachtman
    • Aug 24, 2019
    • 8 min

    Why The Best Entrepreneurs are Cynical Optimists

    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 c...
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    Does Your Vote Count?
    Les Trachtman
    • Aug 24, 2019
    • 3 min

    Does Your Vote Count?

    An alarming trend is occurring in a growing number of technology initial public offerings (IPO). Just prior to selling shares to an unsus...
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    Every Founder Must Understand His or Her Inevitable Transition Out of the CEO Role
    Les Trachtman
    • Oct 9, 2018
    • 6 min

    Every Founder Must Understand His or Her Inevitable Transition Out of the CEO Role

    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 back...
    17 views0 comments
    What's the Risk of Naming my Company after Myself?
    Les Trachtman
    • Jul 25, 2018
    • 3 min

    What's the Risk of Naming my Company after Myself?

    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...
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    You Can't Steer a Sailboat Unless It Is Moving
    Les Trachtman
    • Jul 21, 2018
    • 5 min

    You Can't Steer a Sailboat Unless It Is Moving

    Just about every business decision, whether it's the launching of a new product, the entry into an adjacent market, an acquisition, as we...
    6 views0 comments
    Why Founders Get Fired?
    Les Trachtman
    • Jul 21, 2018
    • 2 min

    Why Founders Get Fired?

    Despite the remarkable tales we read about founders who dropped out of college and started their ventures in the garages to emerge years ...
    12 views0 comments
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