7 Counterintuitive Rules for Growing Your Business Super-Fast
To achieve ‘blitzscaling,’ you have to go against common sense
How to scale yourself, from founder to leader
By Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh All founders need some universal skills to succeed. They need the ability to take bold risks in pursuit of a vision that isn’t self-evident to others. They need the ability to learn (since they’re trying to do something brand-new). And to play a long-term role at their start-up turned…
Introducing Blitzscaling
What will be the enduring, market-defining companies of the future? Where will they come from? And what are the modern secrets of Silicon Valley? How do we use those lessons to help every region of both the U.S. and the world build scale industries and economies? I have tried to address these questions in my…
Is social media good or bad for us? Yes.
Each new communications medium — writing, newspapers, radio, television — has both created essential progress and posed new and potentially harmful challenges to society. The fundamental lesson we need to learn from our history is not that we should halt or reverse innovation, but rather that we need to evolve new technology and its interface…
How We Wrote Blitzscaling
Many people often ask, “How did you write this book?” When a simple answer makes the most sense, we usually say, “With a lot of hard work.” But for those who are curious about how Blitzscaling came to be, I thought I’d ask my co-author Chris Yeh to tell the story. The following is a guest post from Chris…