This week’s Open Source Business Conference was a strange meeting of Enterprise IT users, venture capitalists, and free software entrepreneurs. The opening keynote was delivered by Red Hat’s freshly minted CEO Jim Whitehurst who gave a very modest speech noting that while Red Hat has been a leading open source company they have not necessarily [...]
There’s an irony here that is notable. Even those that hit it big once and fail miserably from that point on still have more credibility than those that continually break even: Interestingly, we don’t call someone who exhibits all of the personal characteristics ofan entrepreneur – opportunity sens- ing, out-of-the-box thinking, and determination – yet [...]
Zoli Erdos penned this excellent piece recently: Startups: Executive Hiring Challenges or Beware of the Suits. He discusses hiring management for startups, and his observations on hiring experienced management (the pedi-greed) versus the scrappier less experienced but often tougher and more resourceful (the mutts – of which I am proud to be one). The only [...]
