Many in the world of bustling business start-ups lack access to the collective experience and
insight of company builders who have traveled treacherous roads before. For subsequent …

… Founder and Chief Executive Donna Dubinsky, and former VC and investment banker
Ruthann Quindlen, among others. …

There is a large academic literature on the principal–agent problem in financial contracting.
1 This literature focuses on the conflicts of interest between an agent, who is an …

Like many entrepreneurs you may establish your company with the best of al [worlds in mind
and fail to consider what will happen when the worst of all worlds happens. An old maxim …

… Ruthann Quindlen compares a company without adequate leadership to "a headless body
that flails around and injures itself in the process."94 On the other hand, a good CEO is able …

… "It's a likely possibility that IBM is making room for its new products--the accounting series
and the business-management and productivity series," said Ruthanne Quindlen, an analyst …

IDL software's array-oriented architecture is designed for high-performance processing of
large, complex darà. That's why it's the standard in the world's preeminent medical, military, …

What do Cisco Systems, Genentech, Intel, Sun Microsystems and Yahoo all have in common?
Apart from being household names of successful Silicon Valley companies, a …

… Written by a female venture capitalist with a sense of humor on start-up PE; Quindlen started
her career as a Baltimore investment banker, became a pioneer as a PC software analyst, …