Managing innovation

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Writing and Speaking http://paulgraham.com/articles.html
http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2011/09/12/why-your-startup-doesnt-need-a-coo/ Startups don’t need – shouldn’t have – COOs. I have this conversation with every startup that comes to see me and has a CEO & a COO.

Why Your Startup Doesn’t Need a COO

To be clear, I said that most companies I see pitching have COOs & I don’t have a rule against it.

Further Thoughts on Startup Operations

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2011/09/17/further-thoughts-on-startup-operations/

Mike McCue | CrunchBase Profile

Longtime Silicon Valley entrepreneur Mike McCue founded Flipboard in early 2010, together with former Apple iPhone engineer Evan Doll. http://www.crunchbase.com/person/mike-mccue
http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/27/founder-stories-leto-bnter-texts-from-last-nigh/

(Founder Stories) Lauren Leto: Texts From Last Night Was A Million Dollar Idea, Bnter Is Next

Erick Schonfeld is the Editor in Chief of TechCrunch. He oversees the editorial content of the site, helps to program the Disrupt conferences and CrunchUps, produces TCTV shows, and writes daily for the blog. He is also the father of three adorable children.
http://www.garage.com/ Garage Technology Ventures is a seed-stage and early-stage venture capital fund.

Garage Technology Ventures :: Seed Stage and Early Stage Venture Capital

Erick Schonfeld is a technology journalist and the former Editor in Chief of TechCrunch. At TechCrunch, he oversaw the editorial content of the site, helped to program the Disrupt conferences and CrunchUps, produced TCTV shows, and wrote daily for the blog. http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/02/founder-stories-crowley-foursquare-origins/

(Founder Stories) Dennis Crowley On The Origins Of Foursquare

We’re on the verge of hearing how Microsoft performed in the last quarter of 2010 – the general consensus seems to be that the world’s largest software maker is set to report a dip in earnings. We’ll be covering the quarterly earnings release, which is scheduled for after the market closes, and we’ll be zooming in on Microsoft’s online businesses in particular. But before we do, I wanted to address something else. http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/27/why-microsoft-desperately-needs-to-become-more-acquisitive/

Why Microsoft Desperately Needs To Become More Acquisitive

2:05 PM Tuesday January 25, 2011 | Comments (23) When Google announced that co-founder Larry Page was replacing Eric Schmidt as CEO, the official reason was to "streamline decision making" at the top. http://blogs.hbr.org/ashkenas/2011/01/can-a-big-company-innovate-lik.html

Can a Big Company Innovate Like a Start-Up? - Ron Ashkenas - Harvard Business Review

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/01/the_next_big_thing_in_managing.html

The Next Big Thing in Managing Innovation - Henry Chesbrough - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review

The first decade of the 21st century brought about an incredible amount of technological advances — Facebook, Twitter, Android, iPod/iTunes/iPhone/iPad, and many other innovations transformed how we communicate, work, and live. But it is often the processes that helped create and manage these technologies that prove most enduring. Understanding the most important management innovations of the past will inform how we continue to expand and build on our knowledge to improve the innovation process in the future and advance human progress.