Netflix – Going Public Case Study
April 21st, 2009
If you’re looking for the Netflix case from Stanford’s GSB, here it is on Stanford’s own server in a folder called—gasp!—”restricted.”
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Archive for April, 2009
Home Depot’s Blueprint for Culture Change
April 13th, 2009
If you’re looking for this HBS article in which CEO Robert Nardelli sets up Home Depot for disaster, Frances Frei has posted a copy of it in her online directory, even though it says “Do not copy or post” all over it. I would like to think that Frei, a well-known HBS professor, is posting articles to wage her own protest against the outrageous prices that Harvard Business Publishing charges for these things. However, that’s probably giving her too much credit. So sad, too bad.
What to look for in term sheets
April 10th, 2009
From a conversation with one of the top East Coast VCs, these are the things you must receive in a term sheet if you’re on the VC side:
- Liquidation preference
- A board seat
- Right of first refusal for subsequent funding rounds.
The absence of any one of those terms should be a deal-breaker, but if you have those, you should be able to get close the deal.
Level 5 Leadership
April 2nd, 2009
If you’re looking for Jim Collins’s article on which he based Good to Great, it’s right here. What struck me most while reading this is how rare true humility is in leaders—humility of the sort that might produce public statements like “We have no idea what we’re doing,” or “We’ll probably run this business into the ground”—and what an awful writer Jim Collins is. Business writing is often full of clichés, but his is especially bad in this regard.
A Survival Guide for Leaders from the Harvard Business Review
April 1st, 2009
If anyone is looking for this article by Ronald Heifetz and Marty Linsky, it’s available here on the University of Illinois’s website.