Your Personal Assistant: Rearden Commerce CEO Patrick Grady (Part 6)

SM: At that point, who was helping you to get the company established? PG: Around that time I did start to create my technology advisory team. There is a saying that you can see further if you stand on the shoulders of giants.

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Building Successful Global Teams (Part 3)

By Guest Author Tony Scott Building Global Teams – Case Studies in Success The series finishes with a couple of success stories: We were asked by one of the world’s largest Japanese technology companies to help them find someone to lead their corporate VC organization, which is based in the U.S. The corporate VC organization’s

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Your Personal Assistant: Rearden Commerce CEO Patrick Grady (Part 5)

SM: When did you actually get Rearden started? PG: I wrote the business plan at the end of 1999 and hired my first employee in March of 2000. One year later, to the day, Microsoft unveiled their version of this.

Catching Up On Readings: Outsourcing — What It Takes

Here is a summary of the posts from this past week, in case you missed them.

Building Successful Global Teams (Part 2)

By Guest Author Tony Scott Building Global Teams – Case Studies in Failure A VC that we frequently work with asked our firm to take a look at a very interesting optical networking company in Silicon Valley with truly breakthrough technology they were considering funding. When we went to visit the company, we found that

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Outsourcing Your Back Office

By Guest Authors Richard Hooker and Steve Monas [Richard and Steve wrap up their series of excerpts from their book “Shoestring Venture: The Startup Bible” with a post on the advantages and concerns of outsourcing the many tasks that any business’s back office takes care of.] A business’ internal capabilities are the stuff that strategy

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Your Personal Assistant: Rearden Commerce CEO Patrick Grady (Part 4)

SM: How long did your efforts to revamp venture capital go on? PG: I did it for almost a decade. In 1988 I sat down with Burt and told him I was tired and despondent, which was completely against my nature. I was not helping my companies or doing anything I set out to do.

Building Your Brand Experience for Hard Times (Part 2)

By guest authors Charles W. Bush and Kathy Hwang of 3Strand, a brand and business strategy consultancy. Design the entire experience, not just singular marketing points. Most companies think of branding as what gets your customer in the door. A fancy logo and some nice marketing materials and you’re set.  Not quite. Companies who do it best

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