1: “What are we not doing?”

That was the question Opsware CEO Ben Horowitz added to the agenda of his weekly staff meeting.

After several near-death experiences during the dot-com bust of the early 2000s, the company began to show signs of life.

“Now that we’d improved our competitive position, we went on the offensive,” Ben writes in his wonderful book The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business … continue reading

1: Things were looking bleak. Very bleak.

The year was 2001, and the dot-com crash was happening.

One by one, technology startups that only a year earlier boasted sky-high valuations and lavish offices were collapsing, leaving behind empty cubicles, burned-out servers, and a sobering lesson in the perils of unchecked optimism.

Loudcloud CEO Ben Horowitz decided to sell the company’s cloud business and pivot to software.

“The situation was complex, … continue reading