Business
Business, startups, and economics: founding companies, strategy, marketing, investing, and how markets work.
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Osborne effect en.wikipedia.org
“A social phenomenon of customers canceling or deferring orders for the current soon-to-be-obsolete product as an unexpected drawback of a company's announcing a future product prematurely.” This is the price to pay for hasty marketing actions.
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Escalation of commitment en.wikipedia.org
A.k.a. sunk-cost fallacy, or the rational explanation of why the hell do we still irrationally keep investing in a bad project.
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Baumol en.wikipedia.org
in action.” (source) - Explains how the pool of professional managers gets distributed into the various sectors of the economy.
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Founder to CEO docs.google.com
You can build you own career engine, starting as a technical founder of a startup, building a great team, then grow with the company to learn and become a full-fledge CEO.
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The Prosperous Software Consultant dabit3.medium.com
This article let you understand how an independent consultant operates.
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What Silicon Valley "Gets" about Software Engineers that Traditional Companies Do Not blog.pragmaticengineer.com
“1. Autonomy for software engineers; 2. Curious problem solvers, not mindless resources; 3. Internal data, code, and documentation transparency; 4. Exposure to the business and to business metrics; 5. Engineer-to-engineer comms over triangle-communication; 6. Investing in a…
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Teams are like bread blog.jessitron.com
Resonates with the Absorb and Split strategy discussed above: “if you have one team where the magic is flourishing, don't kill it. Feed it, grow it, and let it be a source of further strong teams. No rushing.”
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The six ways to influence people bakadesuyo.com
6 universal principles of influence that are used to persuade business professionals: reciprocity, consistency, social proof, getting people to like you, authority and scarcity.
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The SaaS Org Chart archive.ph
Blueprints of an organization at each stage of its 50/125/400/1000-employees stages, with typical ratios and ARR.
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Things Many People Find Too Obvious To Have Told You Already archive.ph
A set of heuristics on tech companies and the ecosystem they live in.
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The failure of Scaling Etsy archive.ph
When a company lacks technical leadership: developers waste time in costly refactors, over-engineered systems, and ends up detached from the business and product.
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What Only the CEO Can Do archive.ph
“1. Defining and interpreting the meaningful "outside" of the company; 2. Answering the two-part question: What business are we in and what business are we not in? 3. Balancing sufficient yield in the present with necessary investment in the future; 4. Shaping the values and…
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Good business mafias form archive.ph
when there's a group of people who all have to quit their job for reasons that are exogenous to their performance. In the case of Paypal, it was an acquisition; at Tiger Management, a few years of underperformance; at Drexel Burnham Lambert, an indictment. In Reliance's case…
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Operations and Internal Communication Strategies For Effective CEOs archive.ph
After insisting on the importance of context and narratives, the author provide an interesting template (good for inspiration) of ritual and recurring internal communication devices.
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It's time to start writing alexnixon.github.io
On “Jeff Bezos's dotcom-era policy of banning PowerPoint within Amazon”, and how “this is neither about powerpoint nor about reading - it's about thinking.”
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Social Entrepreneurs: Pioneering Social Change youtube.com
Skoll Foundation video about social entrepreneurs.
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How social entrepreneurship will change the world youtube.com
Inspiring TEDx talk by Erica Wenger about social enterprises.
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Social Enterprise 101 youtube.com
Quick and easy overview oof social enterprise.
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WorldShapers worldshapers.net
An abundance of resources related to social entrepreneurship education.
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The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship weforum.org
Content about the foundation's activities and opportunities.
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VUB Chair Social Entrepreneurship vubsocialentrepreneurship.com
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Social Entrepreneurship usasbe.org
Focused on social entrepreneurship education.
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Year Here twitter.com
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Tech Jobs for Good twitter.com
Posts about tech jobs with social impact.
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Ken Banks twitter.com
Founder of Kiwanja.
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Echoing Green twitter.com
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Centre for Social Innovation Toronto twitter.com
A coworking space, community, and launchpad for people who are changing the world.
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Pioneers Post twitter.com
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Impact Boom twitter.com
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HBS SocialEnterprise twitter.com
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Ashoka twitter.com
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Acumen twitter.com
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The Tech Matters Podcast techmatters.org
Talking about social enterprise structure and interviewing folks running them. Hosted by social entreprenur and engineer Jim Fruchterman.
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Journal of Social Entrepreneurship tandfonline.com
The academic journal for the topic.
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Evolution of the social enterprise industry socialent.org
by the Institute for Social Entrepreneurs
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Seaworthy Collective seaworthycollective.com
Miami-based BlueTech entrepreneur support organization.
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Social Entrepreneurship quora.com
375k followers, great for asking questions.
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Pioneers Post pioneerspost.com
The Social Enterprise Magazine.
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social enterprise medium.com
and social entrepreneurship.
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Middlesex University Business School mdx.ac.uk
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USC Marshall Masters in Social Entrepreneurship marshall.usc.edu
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Indiana University Social Entrepreneurship Conference kelley.iu.edu
Two day conference focused on social entrepreneurship research.
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Impact Boom impactboom.org
Social impact blog and podcast.
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Articles tagged "social enterprise" hbr.org
are infrequent but high quality.
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Pepperdine's MA in Social Entrepreneurship and Change gsep.pepperdine.edu
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Social Enterprise Program futurelearn.com
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Fast Forward Accelerator ffwd.org
Startup accelerator for nonprofit tech companies.
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Social Entrepreneurs facebook.com
2k members many posts each day.
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