Commentary

Six Apart, the San Mateo-based start-up that is leading the blog tools market space, has all the makings of a Silicon Valley start-up legend....

The business media has been filled with stories critical of the ethics of contemporary business executives and organizations. But, this is much less so in the academic literature. A noteworthy exception is "Beyond Selfishness” by Henry Mintzberg, Robert Simons and Kunal Basu, in the Fall...

CHICAGO – Professional networking has traditionally been a face-to-face interaction in which people meet for the first time in person. Since the technology boom, the networking landscape has changed thanks to the introduction of innovations such as e-mail list servs and online social networking. People...

Last week Google, the ubiquitous Internet search engine company, set the business world abuzz with the announcement of its intention to go public. In doing so it released data about its financial performance that had Wall Street drooling and its competition fidgeting. Some analysts however,...

A fortnight ago, this column talked about the missing angels, those investors who provide the seed money that enable very early-stage companies to sprout. Predictably, I heard from lots of early start-ups who are looking for those angels. They confirmed what I wrote: It's difficult...

Rich Florida has taken a lot of crap from the academic community for the theory he vetted in his best-seller, The Rise of the Creative Class. To summarize, Dr. Florida says that a city’s predisposition for Talent, Tolerance and Technology are indicators of economic boomtowns....