Startups anonymous: The greatest lesson I never learned

Startups anonymous: The greatest lesson I never learned

BY STARTUPS ANONYMOUS 
ON MARCH 5, 2014

[This is a weekly series that brings you raw, first-hand experiences from founders and investors in the trenches. Their story submissions are anonymous, allowing them to share openly without fear of retribution. Every Wednesday, we’ll run one new story chosen by Dana Severson, who operates StartupsAnonymous, a place for startups to share, ask questions, and  answer them in story-length posts, all anonymously.] Read more of this post

Bitcoin CEO Radtke, 28, was wrestling with professional and personal pressures, not least running a start-up that was struggling to gain traction

CEO in apparent suicide was bitcoin fan, had other issues, too

4:16am EST

By Jeremy Wagstaff and Rujun Shen

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – A young American CEO who apparently committed suicide in Singapore was involved in the world of the bitcoin, but was also struggling with other issues prior to her death, friends and colleagues said. Read more of this post

Why Work Is Lonely

Why Work Is Lonely

by Gianpiero Petriglieri  |   1:00 PM March 5, 2014

There is an old cartoon I often show to the managers I work with. It portrays a smiling executive team around a long table. The chairman is asking, “All in favor?” Everyone’s hand is up. Meanwhile, the cloud hovering above each head contains a dissonant view: “You’ve got to be kidding;” “Heaven forbid;” “Perish the thought.” It never fails to provoke awkward laughter of self-recognition. Read more of this post

Singapore’s Megachurches Move to Export Lucrative Religion

Singapore’s Megachurches Move to Export Lucrative Religion

By Laura Philomin on 1:38 pm March 6, 2014.

Worshippers attend a church service at the City Harvest Church in Singapore March 1, 2014. (Reuters Photo/Edgar Su)

Singapore. “God is here, God is here,” croons Singapore church official Sun Ho as she struts across a neon-lit stage and thousands of people in the congregation pump their hands and sing along. Read more of this post

A New SAT Aims to Realign With Schoolwork; for many students, the tests are mysterious and “filled with unproductive anxiety.” And they inspire little respect from classroom teachers: only 20% see the college-admission tests as a fair measure

A New SAT Aims to Realign With Schoolwork

By TAMAR LEWINMARCH 5, 2014

The overall scoring will return to the old 1600 scales, based on a top score of 800 in reading and math. CreditRui Vieira/Press Association

Saying its college admission exams do not focus enough on the important academic skills, the College Board announced on Wednesday a fundamental rethinking of the SAT, ending the longstanding penalty for guessing wrong, cutting obscure vocabulary words and making the essay optional. Read more of this post

The One Statistic That Matters Most To Warby Parker’s Founders: Net Promoter Score, which is a measurement of customer satisfaction

The One Statistic That Matters Most To Warby Parker’s Founders

RICHARD FELONI STRATEGY  MAR. 6, 2014, 4:57 AM

Warby Parker co-founder and co-CEO Dave Gilboa.

David Gilboa founded the innovative eyewear e-commerce company Warby Parker with his Wharton Business School buddies Neil Blumenthal, Andrew Hunt, and Jeffrey Raider back in 2010. Since then, the brand has sold more than half-a-million frames, an impressive number for an online startup competing against the near-monopolistic Luxottica prescription eyewear corporation. Read more of this post

For Those Who Get Discouraged When They Hear The Word ‘No’… Here’s A Rejection Letter U2 Got From A Record Label In 1979

For Those Who Get Discouraged When They Hear The Word ‘No’… Here’s A Rejection Letter U2 Got From A Record Label In 1979

HENRY BLODGET STRATEGY  MAR. 5, 2014, 11:38 PM

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RSO Records sends Paul Hewson (a.k.a., “Bono”) the bad news…

It sucks to hear the word “no.” Read more of this post

At Family Firms, Do CEOs Work Fewer Hours?

At Family Firms, Do CEOs Work Fewer Hours?

RACHEL FEINTZEIG

March 5, 2014 6:54 p.m. ET

What’s the difference between a family firm and a regular business? According to one new study, an empty corner office. Read more of this post

Why we see bosses as parents; Family relationships are often unconsciously recreated at work

March 5, 2014 4:25 pm

Why we see bosses as parents

By Naomi Shragai

When people close their front door in the morning and think they have left their families behind them for a simpler life at work, they are often mistaken. Our families, particularly our earliest relationships, live inside our minds and find their way into all our subsequent relationships, including those in the workplace. Read more of this post

What to do when you have been ‘dreedled’; Many an executive is given to passing unpleasant or daft orders down the line

March 5, 2014 4:15 pm

What to do when you have been ‘dreedled’

By Michael Skapinker

Many an executive is given to passing unpleasant or daft orders down the line

In any organisation, at some point in your career, you are almost certain to be “dreedled” – told to do something by a superior because the superior prefers not to do it. And they, in turn, will often have been told to do it by their superior, who will have been told to do it by theirs. Read more of this post

On investing: The patient and the brave

Updated: Thursday March 6, 2014 MYT 11:22:30 AM

On investing: The patient and the brave

BY JAMES SAFT

REUTERS:  There are two main ways to get paid as a value investor: one is by avoiding the mistakes of your peers, the other is by making some mistakes of your own. Read more of this post

How AT Cross rewrote its future; The US pen maker won a name for stylish sunglasses

March 5, 2014 4:34 pm

How AT Cross rewrote its future

By David Gray and Seán Meehan

The story. The recent $270m acquisition by Essilor of Costa Inc, which owns the sports sunglasses brand Costa del Mar, was the culmination of a remarkable and unlikely transformation of AT Cross, the 165-year-old US company known for making fine writing instruments. Read more of this post