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An Invitation to Explore and Adopt “Capitalism With Care”

Entrepreneurs' Organization

During the Great Recession of 2008-10, Kent guided dozens of CEOs and their companies successfully through the crisis and positioned them to capitalize on the economic expansion that followed. We asked Kent how embracing conscious capitalism during the COVID-19 crisis can benefit companies both in the short- and long-term.

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Lessons Learned After 15 Years in Business

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Jill shared lessons learned and more in a blog post to mark the occasion. Below is an excerpt from the original article. I’m incredibly grateful for the amazing customers and employees who brought us to this milestone! To celebrate our anniversary, I’m sharing a few pivotal lessons I have learned during each of these wonderful years. I was nervous!

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The Doom Loop

Entrepreneur's Handbook

( Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions. ) That is why inflation, at least from a goods perspective, will remain sticky. I discussed this at length in “Energy Cancelled”.

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Biden’s commitment to diversity sets the tone for business leaders

TechCrunch

Things have changed at the very highest levels, beginning with the election of President Obama in 2008, which can’t be understated for its impact on people of color. Elias Torres is the founder and CTO of Drift , a conversational marketing and sales platform. I have a confession to make: my company fell short of its DEI goal in 2020.

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Vidit Aatrey on Building Meesho, India’s Top Reselling Platform, with Adora Cheung

Y Combinator

Meesho is a platform in India that allows people to resell products using their social networks. Meesho is a platform in India that allows people to resell products using their social networks. Vidit Aatrey is cofounder and CEO of Meesho. They were in the Summer 2016 batch of YC and you can check them out at Meesho.com.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

In 2008, he founded StackOverflow , and it has become the foundation for a question and answer platform called StackExchange. Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software.