How to Prevent a Bozo Explosion

Another good article by Guy Kawasaki at How to Prevent a Bozo Explosion. The first part was talking about how to identify the trend that your company is turning from a lean, mean fighting machine into mediocracy. The second part is better: it offers lots of sound management advices when the company is in the rapid growth phase. Here are them:

• Insist that managers hire better than themselves


• Eradicate arrogance


• Understaff


• Undergrow


• Look beyond the resume


• Diversify


• Merge and purge

The Venture Capitalist Wishlist

Another nice article by Guy Kawasaki: The Venture Capitalist Wishlist. I think the most important point is to under promise and over deliver. Read the article yourself.

The Art of Recruiting, Part II

Another good article at Guy Kawasaki's blog. This one talks about how an ideal recruiting session should be conducted. The quality of the interviewers is as important as the company itself in attracting prospects. See The Art of Recruiting, Part II.

By Guy Kawasaki: Nine Questions to Ask a Startup

In Nine Questions to Ask a Startup by Guy Kawasaki, he listed some questions that are too common-sense, but he did provide some guidelines regarding the options you can expect from a 15-employee, post 1st round startup in terms of ownership percentage. For architect: 1~1.5%. For VP: 1.5~3%. And these are options, i.e. free ownerships.

TechCrunch » Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn’t Live Without

Found a page over at TechCrunch that contains a list of some awesome Web2.0 websites that I not know about. These websites use the new AJAX technology to provide a dramatically different user experience over the web. Some examples of AJAX include Gmail, Google Map, the new Yahoo mail, Flickr and so on. See TechCrunch » Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn’t Live Without.