Last week, I asked for different types of Friday Entrepreneurs, and today I’m thrilled to interview a different type of entrepreneur. Tracy Tseng just created a company called littleMAN Style, a retail clothing company. This is different than the web businesses we usually hear about, so I learned a lot. Check out the interview below, [...]
Entries for signed copies of The Starfish and the Spider are due tomorrow. Details here.
Some interesting stuff that’s been making me think:
Darshak Sanghavi, a columnist for Slate, writes:
Researchers in Scotland reported a 31-percent reduction in the risk of heart attacks among men taking the statin pravastatin, sold by Bristol-Myers Squibb…[the drug] now grosses more than $2 billion in sales per year.
A 31 percent reduction in heart attacks, [...]
It turns out my editor for recruiting book we’re writing is also the editor of The Starfish and the Spider book, which I didn’t even know. Because of yesterday’s book giveaway, she found this blog. And she left a comment on one of my posts. A scary one.
There’s a new book coming out in a few days called The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations. It’s an interesting book about top-down organizations vs. distributed, peer-based organizations. Think GE vs. Wikipedia, or the RIAA vs. Craigslist. I met Ori, one of the book’s authors, and got interested in the [...]
Our recruiting book is due in a few days and I think our agent might kill us if we don’t hit our deadline, so expect things to be a little slow around here for the next few days. I hope she’s not reading this. Anyway, if you’re on my newsletter, you should be getting an [...]