Stardoll for Little Girls: Mattias Miksche (Part 3)

SM: What stage are you at now? Revenue? Profitability? Traffic? Customers? Users? Advertisers? Any other metrics you track? MM: We do not comment on our financials. We’re over 7 million uniques a month today and hope to be in the double digits soon. We’re over 2 million uniques in the U.S and over a million

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Vertical Travel Ad Network CEO Cree Lawson (Part 8)

SM: Describe some of your team-building experiences. CL: From the start-ups I was associated with before TAN, I know that team building is perhaps the most difficult aspect of entrepreneurism (aside from spelling the word, of course). You start, and it’s just you and you are alone and you are screaming at the world, saying

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Building the Electronic Arts of Casual Gaming: PlayFirst CEO John Welch (Part 9)

SM: Describe some of your team building experiences. Is your management team complete now? JW: The first hire was the toughest. We raised $5 million on a PowerPoint deck and the promise that we knew the industry better than anyone. But then weeks went by and we couldn’t seem to find the right people to

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Taking on Business Intelligence: Lucidera CEO Ken Rudin (Part 8)

SM: Describe some of your team building experiences. Is your management team complete now? KR: Finding the right executive team members can be a nerve-wracking experience. You are essentially giving a huge amount of responsibility to a person who in many cases you’ve only known for a few weeks during the interview process. A key

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Re-engineering the Book Business: Blurb CEO, Eileen Gittins (Part 5)

SM: How did you penetrate the market and get early traction? EG: Word of mouth driven by a great and viral product and turbo charged with amazing PR. SM: What stage are you at now? Revenue? Profitability? Traffic? Titles? Any other metrics you track? EG: Blurb expects turnover between $5-10MM in 2007, its first full

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Job Search Engine Indeed CEO Paul Forster (Part 4)

SM: Describe some of your team building experiences. Is your management team complete now? PF: We’ve built an extremely talented team across the board – from developers to sales executives. A large proportion found their jobs through Indeed itself, which is gratifying. We’re continuing to build the team and our current open positions are listed

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Effective Management Techniques

You have read Dominique’ article, Top Ten, on an effective management technique from the Steve Jobs school. Do you have such well-honed and highly effective management techniques that you would like to share? Here are a couple I received from the network:

Leadership Profile: Maggie Wilderotter (Part 12)

When Maggie arrived at Citizen, one of her first goals was to develop a strong leadership team. Here she discusses her philosophy on establishing a leadership team as well as how she assembled her current team at Citizen. SM: This is probably not a good question for a public company CEO, but it looks like

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