
For Startups, Joel Spolsky’s Management Model is Mostly Wrong
I read with interest Joel Spolsky’s guest post over on A VC. It’s all about how he sees the hardcore command and control model as the wrong model for startups and that it has been wrongly emphasized by highly autocratic leaders like Steve Jobs. As an alternative, he advocates inverting the hierarchical pyramid so that […]

Joel Spolsky and Kathy Sierra are Close, But There is More to Blogging
Joel Spolsky has succeeded brilliantly with blogging as marketing medium, and he says he only learned why a year ago based on something Kathy Sierra said at the Business of Software Conference: To really work, Sierra observed, an entrepreneur’s blog has to be about something bigger than his or her company and his or her […]